Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (TypeScript, Node.js, React, AWS) (Remote)

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (TypeScript, Node.js, React, AWS) (Remote)

IT - Software Development

Johannesburg - Gauteng - South Africa, Cape Town - Western Cape - South Africa, Kenya, Remote

Environment

BE responsible for key functions that directly impact the onboarding and configuration experience for merchants as the next Senior Full Stack Software Engineer wanted by a cutting-edge FinTech company providing a seamless payment service. This will include onboarding, user management, merchant configuration, and the setup of sandbox configuration for testing and support. The successful incumbent will require 5+ years experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering, strong Node.js, TypeScript, React, AWS (primarily Lambda, API Gateway and Serverless), Jira, Confluence, Git, GitLab, MySQL & PostgreSQL.

Duties

• Onboarding: Setup new merchants for products, connections and payment methods, ensuring a seamless start. Dashboard: The team oversees the dashboard’s design and general management.

• Merchant Login: Ensure a secure and intuitive login experience for the Dashboard.

• Merchant Configuration: Customise and edit merchant business and account settings.

• User Management: Handle access controls and user roles for both merchants and users.

• Transaction Listing: Provide merchants with transaction records and details for easy tracking and analysis.

• User Logs: Keep track of user activity for security and auditing.

• Internal Dashboard: A tool for users to complete daily tasks.

Role expectations

• Successfully able to build new features and enhance existing MX features:

• Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team across the full product portfolio.

• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payment processing to the Backend.

• Effective troubleshooting and debugging of issues:

• Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis.

Requirements

• Languages: TypeScript, Node.js, React

• Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, Serverless)

• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL

• Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git

• CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines

Technical Expertise

• 5+ Years of experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering

• Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript and React

• AWS experience (primarily Lambda, API Gateway and Serverless)

• Database experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

Attributes

Problem-solving & Ownership

• Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new features.

• Able to iteratively maintain and evolve existing features to meet best practices and modern standards.

• Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment.

Collaboration & Communication

• Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners.