Full Stack Software Engineer

Profile Personnel; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Profile Personnel is seeking a senior software engineer in Cape Town to own end-to-end feature development across the stack. You will work on backend services in Python/Java, craft frontend interfaces in React/TypeScript, and design robust data models in PostgreSQL.

Ideal candidates have strong experience with ETL pipelines, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and Docker, with a proactive, user-centric approach to architecting solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience across the full stack.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language/framework (Python, Ruby, Node.js, Go, C#, Java) with ability to pick up new stacks quickly.
• Hands-on frontend experience building user-facing applications with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (React preferred).
• Strong relational database skills (PostgreSQL preferred) including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling.
• Experience building net-new product features from scratch, not just migrations or upgrades.
• User-centric design sensibility for operators.
• Comfort with ambiguity and driving tasks to completion with minimal hand-holding.

Skills

Full stack development

Python

JavaScript/React

PostgreSQL

Data modeling

ETL pipelines

AWS/GCP

Docker

Rapid feature development

Tools

GitHub

Salesforce CRM

Django

Job description

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience across the full stack
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language/framework (Python, Ruby, Node.js, Go, C#, Java, or similar) with a demonstrated ability to pick up new stacks quickly
• Hands-on frontend experience building user-facing applications - not just internal tooling or admin dashboards. You should be comfortable with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (React preferred)
• Solid relational database skills (PostgreSQL preferred) including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling
• Experience building net-new product features from scratch, not solely migrating or upgrading existing systems
• A user-centric design sensibility - you think about how operators will actually use the system, not just whether the code compiles
• Comfort with ambiguity: you can take a loosely defined problem, propose a solution, and drive it to completion with minimal hand-holding

Strongly Preferred:

• Experience with Python and/or Java (our primary backend languages) and React (our frontend framework)
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and tools - whether that's using LLMs to augment development workflows, building AI-powered features, or integrating with third-party AI APIs
• Experience working in a startup or small-team environment (sub-50 engineers) where you owned features end-to-end rather than working within a single layer of a large system
• Background in data-intensive applications: ETL pipelines, data normalization, or working with messy real-world datasets
• Exposure to the restaurant, food & beverage, or supply chain vertical is a plus but not required

You don't need to know all of these coming in, but this is what you'll be working with:

• Backend: Python, Java, Django
• Frontend: React, TypeScript
• Database: PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Docker
• Data & Integrations: Invoice OCR, distributor and accounting APIs, point-of-sale system integrations
• Tools: GitHub, Salesforce (CRM)

Note: Please ensure that you attach a certified copy of your ID and Qualification to be considered for this position.