Senior JavaScript Software Engineer

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s ready to bring technical leadership, product thinking, and good vibes to our team. You’ll help shape the architecture, mentor less experienced engineers, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver products people actually want to use.

You're a doer, a problem-solver, and someone who can turn complex challenges into elegant code. You’re also a great human — humble, curious, and great to work with.

What You’ll Do:

• Providing engineering expertise and experience as a member of a cross functional delivery team, working alongside other engineers, designers, QA, delivery lead and a tech lead
• Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software
• Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
• Choosing the right technology for the job, striving for simplicity
• Starting or continuing your journey as a line-manager
• Coach & support peers
• Providing support for digital products once they are live (depending on client needs)

You’ll Thrive Here If You..

• Front-end web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, Typescript, CSS, HTML, etc.)
• Front-end web frameworks (e.g. React, Vue.Js, etc.)
• Back-end technologies (e.g. Node.js, Go, Rust, etc.)
• Relational and non-relational databases (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL,
• System architecture approaches (e.g. microservices, event sourcing, serverless, CQRS)
• Virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) and

infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi)

• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)
• Effective source-control management using Git
• Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing

Reference Number for this position is GZ60466 which is a contract position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary of R1000K per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 12 Aug 10:35, Closing date 11 Oct