Remote: Senior Full-Stack AI Platform Lead

Pavago

South Africa

Remote

ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Pavago is seeking a Senior Full Stack AI Developer to lead the development of an internal AI-powered operating platform. You will work across data engineering, API integrations, AI/LLM applications, dashboards, automation, and modern web development.

This high-ownership role requires proposing solutions, making technical decisions, and taking projects from idea to production. You will design architecture, build production-ready systems, and align with business needs, while collaborating

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional full-stack development experience with production systems.
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Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a centralized data warehouse using SQL and modern data tools.
  • Develop a shared metrics layer so business metrics are consistently defined across dashboards.
  • Build data pipelines, models, monitoring, and automated reporting.
  • Connect data from multiple business systems into a centralized platform.
  • Build and maintain REST API and webhook integrations with platforms such as ServiceTitan, Dialpad, Brex, Ramp, QuickBooks Online, payroll, Google Ads, and other business systems.
  • Develop event-driven automations that monitor business processes and trigger alerts when requirements are missed.
  • Build automated checks and scorecards for operations, payroll, accounting, and marketing.
  • Build AI-powered assistants that can answer business questions using company data.
  • Develop retrieval, text-to-SQL, semantic layers, agents, and tool-use workflows.
  • Design prompts, evaluations, guardrails, and systems that control AI cost and latency.
  • Build AI applications that are reliable enough for real users and business operations.
  • Build dashboards for operations, sales, finance, marketing, and customer service.
  • Develop modern web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and React or similar technologies.
  • Build backend services using Node.js or Python.
  • Support future customer-facing applications for booking, payments, invoices, job photos, and service history.
  • Implement secure authentication, OAuth/SSO, role-based access, secrets management, and audit logging.
  • Follow least-privilege access and appropriate PII handling practices.
  • Support CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and production reliability.
  • Build systems that are properly documented and supported with runbooks.

Skills

Full-stack development
Data pipelines
SQL
TypeScript/JavaScript
React
Node.js
Python
AI/LLM applications
REST APIs
Cloud platforms
CI/CD

Tools

BigQuery
Snowflake
dbt
Google Cloud
Cloudflare Workers

Job description

Pavago is seeking a Senior Full Stack AI Developer to lead the development of an internal AI-powered operating platform. You will work across data engineering, API integrations, AI/LLM applications, dashboards, automation, and modern web development.

This high-ownership role requires proposing solutions, making technical decisions, and taking projects from idea to production. You will design architecture, build production-ready systems, and align with business needs, while collaborating

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