Intermediate Full Stack Developer (JavaScript / TypeScript)

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit in Johannesburg, South Africa is seeking an engineer who writes clean, scalable code, and is comfortable in React with experience shipping on AWS.

You will build RESTful APIs, deploy on AWS, take ownership from design to production, apply clean code practices, and contribute to Agile engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Proficient React engineer with clean, scalable code.
• Experience deploying on AWS and writing RESTful APIs.
• Familiar with modern CI/CD and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Build and integrate RESTful APIs and third-party platforms.
• Deploy, run and support solutions on AWS.
• Take ownership of technical solutions from design through to production.
• Apply clean code, testability and maintainability.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and team engineering practices.
• Deliver in Agile and keep improving how the team ships.

Skills

React

AWS

REST API design

Asynchronous programming

Git/CI-CD

Automated testing

React Native / mobile

Microservices / BFF / Azure

Tools

AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, IAM)

REST APIs

GraphQL

Git

CI/CD

Testing frameworks

Azure

Job description

Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 08/10/2026

This suits an engineer who writes clean, scalable code, is comfortable in React, and has already shipped work on AWS.

Key responsibilities

• Build and integrate RESTful APIs and third-party platforms
• Deploy, run and support solutions on AWS
• Take ownership of technical solutions from design through to production
• Apply clean code, testability and maintainability
• Contribute to architectural decisions and team engineering practices
• Deliver in Agile and keep improving how the team ships

Requirements

Skills and experience:

• Strong React experience, including components, state and front-end architecture
• Hands-on AWS experience, such as EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS or IAM
• Solid API design, including REST, with GraphQL an advantage
• Asynchronous and event-driven programming
• Git, CI/CD and modern engineering practices
• Automated testing across unit, integration and end-to-end
• React Native or other mobile experience is an advantage
• Microservices or BFF patterns, and Azure as a second cloud, are an advantage.