Full Stack Software Engineer

PwC International; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship available

Job summary

PwC seeks an experienced software engineering leader to drive full-stack development across Angular, Node.js, .NET, and SQL. You will design systems, mentor teams, and ensure secure, compliant delivery of enterprise software with AI-enabled capabilities. Collaboration and strong communication are essential for success in this role.

The position emphasizes RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, and production-ready AI delivery within a dynamic client-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in IT/CS or related field.
• Experience building production agent systems and RAG-enabled apps.
• Certifications in AI/ML, cloud services, or security are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Full-Stack development across front-end, orchestration, back-end, and data layers.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Maintain code quality and adhere to best practices.
• Design system architecture and scalable solutions.
• Troubleshoot, optimize performance, and debug issues.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and production readiness.
• Document implementations and mentor junior engineers.
• Ensure security and compliance in delivery.

Skills

Angular

Node.js

.NET

SQL

CI/CD

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Tools

Kubernetes

Vector databases

Embeddings

LLM platforms

Job description

Management Level Manager Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in software and product innovation focus on developing cutting-edge software solutions and driving product innovation to meet the evolving needs of clients. These individuals combine technical experience with creative thinking to deliver innovative software products and solutions. Those in software engineering at PwC will focus on developing innovative software solutions to drive digital transformation and enhance business performance. In this field, you will use your knowledge to design, code, and test cutting-edge applications that revolutionise industries and deliver exceptional user experiences. Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same. Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to: Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system. Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion. Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables. Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same. Effectively mentor others. Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members. Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate. Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Role Overview:

The software engineer is proficient in our golden stack of technologies, Angular for front-end, Node for Orchestration, .net for backend and SQL for the data layer and is expected to develop quality products that are on time and under budget. This is achieved through effective collaboration, system design, adherence to coding standards, problem solving and ensuring that secure and compliance standards are prioritised. The role also includes designing, building, and operating enterprise agent capabilities using multi-agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented reasoning, secure enterprise integrations, applied AI research, observability, and production-ready AI delivery practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Full-Stack Development


• Collaboration and Communication


• Code Quality and Best Practices


• System Design and Architecture


• Problem-Solving and Debugging


• Performance Optimization


• Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD)


• Documentation


• Security and Compliance


• Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing


• Agent Systems Engineering Design, build, and operate enterprise agent capabilities, including multi-agent orchestration, intent routing, stateful workflow coordination, grounded response composition, and secure tool-use patterns.


• Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Engineering Build and optimise RAG pipelines across document ingestion, parsing, chunking, metadata enrichment, embeddings, indexing, retrieval relevance tuning, and grounding quality.


• Applied AI Research and Prototyping Evaluate emerging models, frameworks, retrieval strategies, and interaction patterns through proof-of-concepts, comparative benchmarking, feasibility assessment, and production adoption recommendations.


• Observability, Evaluation, and MLOps Instrument prompts, traces, tool calls, retrieval context, latency, and runtime metadata; define evaluation frameworks for routing accuracy, retrieval relevance, hallucination risk, and user outcome quality; and deploy agent services through CI/CD and cloud-native platforms.

Qualifications:

A bachelor's degree / diploma in IT, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field. Certifications in the full stack technologies mentioned are advantageous. Industry-recognized certifications in project management and leadership could also be valuable for this role. Practical experience building production agent systems, RAG-enabled applications, or LLM-powered enterprise solutions, including the ability to translate experiments and prototypes into production-ready capabilities. Certifications or practical exposure in AI/ML, cloud AI services, platform engineering, data engineering, enterprise security, governance, and compliance frameworks are advantageous.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Proficient in Angular, Node.js, .NET, and SQL, with the ability to develop, test, and deploy high-quality web applications using these technologies.


• Experience in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, code quality standards, system design and architecture, and performance optimization techniques.


• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices for web development, and the ability to mitigate risks and protect sensitive data.


• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.


• Willingness to mentor and share knowledge with junior developers, and to learn new skills and technologies as required.


• Hands-on experience with agent orchestration frameworks, stateful workflows, tool-calling patterns, enterprise model platforms, multi-model strategies, vector databases, embeddings, semantic retrieval tuning, and relevance evaluation.


• Working knowledge of observability tooling, trace analytics, prompt lifecycle management, AI security, privacy governance, responsible-use controls, Kubernetes or equivalent cloud-native environments, and structured AI research methods.

Travel Requirements Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? Job Posting End Date October 4, 2026