Full Stack Engineer

flyp; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cape Town office

In-person collaboration

Senior ownership

Job summary

Flyp seeks a Senior Full Stack & Operations Engineer in Cape Town to own production stability, build end-to-end features with TypeScript/React/PostgreSQL, and drive AI-driven workflows for multi-agency property operations.

Hybrid role in Cape Town with a strong emphasis on system health, incidents, and DevOps practices, reporting into the core tech team in the UK real estate market.

Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years post-qualification software engineering.
• Operational experience in production environments and SLAs.
• Strong TypeScript and React frontend skills.
• Node.js/TypeScript REST/GraphQL APIs and PostgreSQL mastery.
• GCP/AWS/Azure, containers, serverless, CI/CD.
• Experience with Generative AI and LLM API integrations.
• Location in Cape Town or willing to relocate for in-office role.

Responsibilities

• Own health, uptime, and stability of Flyp’s production environment.
• Respond to critical incidents; perform RCA and apply fixes.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and metrics across APIs, DB, and queues.
• Identify bottlenecks; optimize deployment pipelines and tech debt.
• Design and deploy new features with TS/React/Node/PostgreSQL.
• Integrate Agentic AI systems for property workflows.
• Manage migrations and scale microservices on GCP or alternatives.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

PostgreSQL

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AI integration

Incident management

Education

BSc in Computer Science

Tools

Datadog

Sentry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Senior Full Stack & Operations Engineer (TypeScript / React / PostgreSQL / Cloud & AI)

Position: Full-Time, Permanent

Experience Level: Senior (Graduated pre-2020)

Company: Flyp (flyp.co)

About Flyp

At Flyp , we are revolutionizing the UK residential real estate market. The traditional process of buying and selling homes is slow, manual, and inefficient. We use proprietary technology, data-driven algorithms, smart staging, and multi-agency routing to transform properties, maximize value, and execute faster sales for homeowners.

We are expanding our core technical team in Cape Town . This role is a hands-on, hybrid position designed for a seasoned engineer who excels at building next-generation product features while maintaining high availability, health, and performance across our existing digital ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

1. Ecosystem Operations & System Support (~40-50%)

• System Health & Maintenance: Take active ownership of the operational health, uptime, and stability of Flyp’s existing production environment and core ecosystem.
• Incident Management: Serve as a key responder for critical system failures, data synchronization issues, and service outages, driving rapid root-cause analysis (RCA) and long-term resolution.
• Monitoring & Alerting: Instrument proactive monitoring, logging, and performance metrics across APIs, database instances, and background job queues to catch failures before they impact users.
• Technical Debt & Refactoring: Identify operational bottlenecks, optimize legacy code, improve deployment pipelines (CI/CD), and ensure core dependencies remain secure and up to date.
• Full-Stack Engineering: Design, build, and deploy new end-to-end features using TypeScript, React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
• PropTech AI Integration: Implement Agentic AI systems, automated property valuation tools, and LLM-driven workflows (OpenAI, Anthropic) to streamline multi-agency orchestration and lead management.
• Database & Cloud Management: Optimize schemas, manage migrations, and tune complex queries on PostgreSQL while scaling microservices across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent cloud providers.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Science or a closely related quantitative field.
• Seniority Threshold: Graduated pre-2020 with 6+ years of post-qualification commercial software engineering experience.
• Operational Expertise: Proven experience supporting and maintaining production environments, debugging live applications, and managing operational SLAs.
• Frontend Mastery: Deep expertise in modern TypeScript and React (hooks, state architecture, and web performance optimization).
• Backend & Database: Core proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript REST/GraphQL APIs and advanced PostgreSQL management (indexing, migrations, execution plan optimization).
• Cloud & DevOps: Strong experience with GCP (or AWS/Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless architectures, and CI/CD automation.
• Applied AI & Automation: Exposure to Generative AI, LLM API integrations, vector stores (pgvector/Pinecone), and Agentic frameworks.
• Location: Must be based in or willing to relocate to Cape Town for a fully in-office role.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in PropTech, Real Estate, FinTech, or high-throughput marketplace ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tooling (Datadog, Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana).

What We Offer

• Competitive Compensation: Highly competitive ZAR salary reflecting senior-level expertise and operational responsibility.
• In-Person Collaboration: A dynamic, fast-paced work environment in our Cape Town office.
• End-to-End Ownership: Direct impact on both high-level system architecture and daily production stability in the UK property market.