Remote Fintech Full-Stack Engineer — React + Node

Placements24; Kempton Park; Remote; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first role

Competitive salary and benefits

Professional development budget

Career growth in fintech

Job summary

Placements24 is hiring a fully remote Full-Stack Developer in South Africa. The role focuses on building scalable fintech features and APIs, using a modern stack with React.js on the front end and Node.js on the back end.

You will collaborate with product managers and designers, ensure code quality, and contribute to architecture while maintaining high performance in a distributed, remote team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field.
• 3+ years of professional full-stack React/Node.js experience.
• Strong JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 skills.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and databases (PostgreSQL/MongoDB).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Experience with Git and modern frontend frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain responsive UIs with React.js.
• Develop back-end services and RESTful APIs with Node.js/Express.
• Integrate third-party APIs and data sources.
• Write clean, well-documented, testable code.
• Collaborate with product and design teams.
• Optimize performance and ensure high availability.
• Participate in code reviews and share knowledge.
• Troubleshoot and resolve full-stack issues.
• Contribute to architectural decisions.

Skills

React.js

Node.js

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS3

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Express.js

Job description

Placements24 is hiring a fully remote Full-Stack Developer in South Africa. The role focuses on building scalable fintech features and APIs, using a modern stack with React.js on the front end and Node.js on the back end.

You will collaborate with product managers and designers, ensure code quality, and contribute to architecture while maintaining high performance in a distributed, remote team.