As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Paystack, you will be responsible for designing and building robust full-stack applications that expose data and functionality to internal and external users, supporting some of South Africa’s best-known brands. The role demands ownership of scalable, reliable systems handling financial data with high accuracy and performance.
What You'll Do
- Architect and Develop: Design and implement robust solutions for our platform, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
- Product Innovation: Design and development of technical solutions to deliver on our product vision.
- Technical Problem Solving: Tackle complex technical challenges, providing innovative solutions to enhance system performance and reliability.
- System Integration: Collaborate on the refinement of the platform’s architecture, focusing on optimization and seamless integration to other systems.
- Code Review and Testing: Review specifications and code submissions and conduct thorough testing to maintain code quality.
- System support: Collaborate with other teams, both inside and outside engineering, to assist merchants and customers where necessary.
What We're Looking For
- Extensive programming experience in at least one language such as Javascript, Typescript, Java, C++, C#, Python or another major language
- Working on large, distributed systems at scale
- Understanding and working with SQL databases
- Writing solid unit testing and integration tests
- You communicate clearly and are able to collaborate in a remote environment
- Taking ownership of work assigned to you
- You have a passion for building products to help African businesses
Technical Stack
- Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, Express.js, Sails.js, Nest.js, React, Angular, Vue, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
Team & Environment
- Part of a growing team of talented engineers
Benefits & Compensation
- Building the best place to work on the continent
- Opportunity to help accelerate digital commerce across Africa
Work Mode
- Local to South Africa
Paystack is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment where everyone can thrive.




