Full Stack Engineer

Confidential Company; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Company is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join a growing engineering team delivering a large-scale eCommerce platform. The role starts frontend-focused, shaping the customer experience, with opportunities to contribute to backend services and integrations as the business expands.

You'll collaborate across Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to implement roadmap initiatives, build scalable apps using TypeScript and Node.js, and ensure platform reliability within AWS

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Full Stack Developer or Software Engineer.
• Experience building applications using Node.js.
• Frontend development experience with modern web technologies.
• Experience using monitoring and observability tools such as DataDog.
• Experience developing and supporting production applications.
• Understanding of cloud platforms, ideally AWS.
• Experience working within Agile development environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to work effectively within a distributed, cross-functional team.
• Develop and enhance customer-facing features across the eCommerce platform.
• Build scalable, maintainable applications using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Contribute to both frontend and backend development, with an initial focus on frontend delivery.
• Support integrations with suppliers, fulfilment partners, and order management systems.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to deliver roadmap initiatives.
• Help design and implement future platform capabilities, including new eCommerce and fulfilment models.
• Monitor application performance, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to platform reliability.
• Support cloud-based infrastructure and deployment processes within AWS environments.
• Participate in code review and champion engineering best practices.
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of development, testing, and deployment processes.
• Experience working on eCommerce or digital commerce platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop customer-facing features across the eCommerce platform.
• Build scalable, maintainable applications using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Collaborate with Product, Designers, and Engineers to deliver roadmap initiatives.
• Support integrations with suppliers, fulfilment partners, and order management systems.
• Monitor performance, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to platform reliability.
• Participate in code reviews and promote engineering best practices.

Skills

Node.js

Frontend development

TypeScript

AWS

CI/CD

DataDog

Agile development

Cross-functional collaboration

Distributed teams

Tools

BigCommerce

AWS

Job description

We're hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join a growing engineering team responsible for delivering and evolving a large-scale eCommerce platform. This role will play a key part in shaping the future of platform experience, working across both frontend and backend systems to deliver new customer-facing features and platform enhancements.

Initially, the role will be more frontend-focused, supporting an ambitious product roadmap and helping to improve the customer experience. Over time, there will be opportunities to contribute to backend services, integrations and platform development as the business expands it's eCommerce capabilities.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who enjoys working across the full technology stack, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams, and contributing throughout the software development lifecycle - from building and deploying solutions through to ongoing support and optimisation.

Required Experience:

• 3+ years experience as a Full Stack Developer or Software Engineer
• Experience building applications using Node.js
• Frontend development experience with modern web technologies and frameworks
• Experience using monitoring and observability tools such as DataDog
• Experience developing and supporting production applications
• Understanding of cloud platforms, ideally AWS
• Experience working within Agile development environments
• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset
• Ability to work effectively within a distributed, cross-functional team
• Develop and enhance customer-facing features across the eCommerce platform
• Build scalable, maintainable applications using TypeScript and Node.js
• Contribute to both frontend and backend development, with an initial focus on frontend delivery
• Support integrations with suppliers, fulfilment partners, and order management systems
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to deliver roadmap initiatives
• Help design and implement future platform capabilities, including new eCommerce and fulfilment models
• Monitor application performance, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to platform reliability
• Support cloud-based infrastructure and deployment processes within AWS environments
• Participate in code review and champion engineering best practices
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of development, testing, and deployment processes
• Experience working on eCommerce or digital commerce platforms
• Exposure to BigCommerce or similar commerce technologies
• Experience integrating third-party systems, suppliers, or fulfilment services
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure
• Understanding of order management, fulfilment or retail systems