Junior Developer (Python, JavaScript)

AES Global; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 350,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Permanent position

Job summary

AES Global in Cape Town is hiring a Junior Developer to contribute to Python and JavaScript projects across internal tools and customer-facing features. You’ll collaborate across the stack, tackling problems end-to-end with guidance from a senior developer and gaining insight into the commercial value of technical work.

Expect a fast-learning, best-idea-wins culture with real responsibility, hybrid work in Cape Town, and a permanent role that blends technical and business impact.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python and JavaScript.
• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering with strong academic results.
• Interest in working across commercial, operational and technical areas.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain internal tools and customer-facing features in Python and JavaScript.
• Work across the stack, addressing problems as needed.
• Collaborate with a senior developer to take a problem from question to working solution.
• Gain exposure to the commercial and operational side of the business and understand value.
• Contribute ideas to improve how the team builds and learns.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Job description

A growing technology business in Cape Town is looking for a Junior Developer in Python and JavaScript — someone who wants to work across commercial, operational and technical ground rather than sit in a purely technical seat.

What you build gets used, and you’ll see the commercial effect of it rather than hearing about it second-hand. Real responsibility goes to everyone regardless of level, backed by coaching from more experienced developers, which is what makes it a fast place to learn. There is very little hierarchy — genuinely a best-idea-wins environment, where titles are not really a thing.

What you’ll be doing

• Building and maintaining internal tools and customer-facing features in Python and JavaScript
• Working across the stack rather than in one narrow layer, on whatever the problem actually needs
• Taking a problem from the question to the working answer, with a more senior developer alongside you
• Getting into the commercial and operational side of the business, not just the code — understanding why a thing is being built and what it is worth
• Improving how the team builds as you learn, and having your ideas taken seriously while you do

What you’ll need

• Python and JavaScript
• A Computer Science or Engineering degree, with strong academic results
• Demonstrated or expressed interest in working across commercial, operational and technical areas — not pure development
• A problem-solving nature: keen to get your hands dirty and see a job through
• Willingness to take on real responsibility in a business that moves quickly

Who tends to do well here

People who can point to something they have genuinely excelled at — academically, in a side project, or at work — and who would rather own a problem end to end than be handed a narrow task. If you like the idea of a job where the technical and the commercial sit in the same conversation, this is that job.

At least half your time in office, with real flexibility over which days and hours.

Cape Town. Hybrid. Permanent.