Cape Town, South Africa Remote (Country)

Paystack is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer, South Africa

About the Role

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.

Required Skills
TypescriptJavascriptNode.jsExpress.jsReactSQLUnit TestingDistributed SystemsIntegration TestingRemote Collaboration TypescriptJavascriptNode.jsExpress.jsReactSQLUnit TestingDistributed SystemsIntegration TestingRemote Collaboration
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Paystack
Paystack’s mission is to accelerate digital payments on the continent of Africa. Over 200,000 businesses in Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya use Paystack’s modern payments gateway. The company provides services such as automated recurring payments, direct bank account payments, and automated chargebacks.
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Posted 2 hours ago