Remote FinTech Full-Stack Engineer — Scale Payments

Placements24; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Generous annual leave

Professional development (online/confs

Job summary

Placements24 is hiring a remote Full Stack Developer to build and scale a fintech-style platform. Based in Cape Town, you can work from anywhere in South Africa. The role emphasizes autonomous work, secure backend systems, and excellent user experiences across both frontend and backend components.

You will collaborate with product managers and designers, implement RESTful APIs, and contribute to architecture decisions while keeping security at the forefront.

Qualifications

• Proven Full Stack experience with modern JS frameworks.
• Backend experience with Node.js or Python/Java.
• Familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop frontend and backend features.
• Write clean, documented code for scalability.
• Collaborate with product/design to implement user stories.

Skills

React/Angular/Vue.js

Node.js

Python/Django/Flask

SQL/NoSQL databases

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

CI/CD/DevOps

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

RESTful APIs

Job description

Placements24 is hiring a remote Full Stack Developer to build and scale a fintech-style platform. Based in Cape Town, you can work from anywhere in South Africa. The role emphasizes autonomous work, secure backend systems, and excellent user experiences across both frontend and backend components.

You will collaborate with product managers and designers, implement RESTful APIs, and contribute to architecture decisions while keeping security at the forefront.