Full-Stack Tech Lead (Contract, Remote)

Infuse; Remote; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm in East London, South Africa, seeks a pragmatic tech lead to develop and implement AI-powered solutions. You will create a raw document crawler, enhance APIs for user management, and integrate a FastAPI search service into the UI. The ideal candidate has a strong background in full-stack applications, SEO practices, and cloud technologies like AWS. This full-time role offers the chance to significantly impact the delivery of high-quality marketing assets.

Qualifications

• Experience in building or maintaining production-grade full-stack applications.
• Knowledge of semantic search and API-first product development.
• Proficiency in both frontend and backend technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate a raw document crawler and freshness scheduler.
• Extend Flask APIs for user management and role-based access control.
• Finalize the admin dashboard with asset review and analytics.
• Integrate FastAPI search service into the user interface.
• Implement SEO best practices for the application.
• Strengthen CI/CD processes and deployment pipelines.
• Add protection against bots and monitor application performance.

Skills

Full-stack application development

API development

SEO best practices

Monitoring and error tracking

Comfort with frontend, backend, and infra ops

Tools

Flask

FastAPI

React

PostgreSQL

Docker

AWS

Job description

Hiring Process

Be among the first 25 applicants.
We will review your application against our job requirements.
We do not employ machine learning technologies during this phase as we believe every human deserves attention from another human.
We do not think machines can evaluate your application quite like our seasoned recruiting professionals—every person is unique.
We promise to give your candidacy a fair and detailed assessment.
We may then invite you to submit a video interview for the review of the hiring manager.
This video interview is often followed by a test or short project that allows us to determine whether you will be a good fit for the team.
At this point, we will invite you to interview with our hiring manager and/or the interview team.
Please note: We do not conduct interviews via text message, Telegram, etc. and we never hire anyone into our organization without having met you face-to-face (or via Zoom).
You will be invited to come to a live meeting or Zoom, where you will meet our INFUSE team.
From there on, it's decision time!
If you are still excited to join INFUSE and we like you as much, we will have a conversation about your offer.
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We're building INKHUB, an AI-powered discovery engine for 1M+ high-quality marketing assets.
Think of it as the semantic search layer for B2B content – structured, searchable, and always fresh.
We're looking for a pragmatic tech lead to take us from prototype to scalable product, shipping end-to-end features across ingestion, UI, SEO, and auth.

What You'll Do

• Design and operate a raw document crawler and freshness scheduler (S3 + SQS or EventBridge/Lambda)
• Extend Flask APIs to support page claiming and editing, SSO sign‑in with Google/LinkedIn or magic links, and role‑based access control and usage tracking
• Finalize the React (MUI) admin dashboard with asset review, user roles, and usage analytics
• Wire our FastAPI semantic search service into the UI (type‑ahead, filters, snippet previews)
• Enforce SEO best practices: structured URLs, sitemap generation, and redirects
• Harden CI/CD with GitHub Actions (or Jenkins); deploy via Helm to AWS (EKS or ECS)
• Add lightweight bot protection (rate limits, IP whitelisting)
• Monitor latency & error budgets via CloudWatch and Grafana

Our Stack

• Python (Flask + FastAPI)
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• React (TypeScript + MUI)
• Docker, Helm
• AWS (S3, Cognito/Auth0, EKS)
• OpenAPI3
• GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• SQS, EventBridge or Celery

You Might Be a Fit If…

• You’ve shipped or maintained a production‑grade full‑stack app
• You’ve worked with semantic search, API‑first products, or CMS‑style workflows
• You’re comfortable juggling frontend, backend, and basic infra ops
• You care about clarity, performance, and edge‑case handling
• You enjoy being hands‑on and autonomous

Why This Role Matters

Your work is the platform. You’ll ship and scale the surface where users discover AI‑powered answers, browse the freshest B2B content in the world, and claim their company profiles.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Construction, Software Development, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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