Full-Stack Engineer, Labor Marketplace Platform

MCI Careers; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Leave

Health Benefits

Career Growth

Paid Training

Positive Work Environment

Casual Dress Code

Job summary

MCI is seeking a Full-Stack Engineer to own the labor marketplace platform from concept to production. You will build core features for job postings, candidate profiles, onboarding, and matching logic across web and mobile, delivering scalable APIs and real-time capabilities.

Join a fast-growing tech-enabled business services company with a strong emphasis on design systems, performance, and user-centric experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or a related field, equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end development of our labor marketplace across web and mobile.
• Build core platform features: job postings, candidate profiles, onboarding, identity verification, matching logic, in-app messaging, scheduling, and employer dashboards.
• Develop scalable APIs, data pipelines, and backend logic for high-volume hiring workflows.
• Deliver a clean, responsive front end in collaboration with UX: dashboards, search tools, assignments, ratings, and workforce insights.
• Implement integrations with ATS, HRIS, CRM, payroll, and third-party verification tools.
• Create analytics frameworks to track conversion, funnel drop-off, worker engagement, and operational SLAs.
• Ensure secure, compliant infrastructure to support tens of thousands of workers and employers.
• Writing clean, reliable, production-ready code across front-end and back-end.
• Translating product requirements into scalable architecture and well-designed features.
• Maintaining and extending our design system and component library.
• Implementing database schemas, microservices, REST/GraphQL endpoints, and real-time features.
• Optimizing performance and reducing latency across matching, scheduling, and search.
• Troubleshooting, debugging, and improving system reliability.
• Collaborating with Product, UI/UX, QA, HR stakeholders, and marketplace operations teams.
• Shipping fast, iterating often, and prioritizing user impact over complexity.

Skills

Full-stack development

React/Next.js/Vue

Node.js/Python

PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Redis

DevOps AWS/GCP

Docker

CI/CD

TypeScript

Microservices

WebSockets

Education

Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

MCI is seeking a Full-Stack Engineer to own the labor marketplace platform from concept to production. You will build core features for job postings, candidate profiles, onboarding, and matching logic across web and mobile, delivering scalable APIs and real-time capabilities.

Join a fast-growing tech-enabled business services company with a strong emphasis on design systems, performance, and user-centric experiences.