Senior AI-Driven Software Engineer — Full-Stack & Architecture

FACT (PTY) LTD; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

FACT (PTY) LTD in Johannesburg seeks a Senior AI/Agentic Software Engineer for a 6-month on-site contract. You will direct AI-powered software engineering tasks, design scalable architectures, and lead cross-functional teams across frontend, backend, APIs, mobile, and cloud domains.

The role emphasizes evaluation of AI-generated code, building reusable AI-enabled capabilities, and mentoring engineers to raise the team’s technical bar in a fast-paced enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• Use AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude or equivalent enterprise AI platforms.
• Direct AI agents to perform software engineering tasks
• Create and improve prompts, AI Skills, instruction files and workflows
• Evaluate AI-generated code rather than blindly accepting it
• Build reusable AI-enabled engineering capabilities
• Make and validate architecture decisions
• Review AI-generated designs and code
• Ensure systems are scalable, secure, maintainable and performant
• Coach other engineers
• Raise the overall technical standard.

Responsibilities

• Lead Full-Stack development across frontend, backend, APIs, mobile and cloud components.
• Architect and validate scalable, secure software solutions.
• Coach and mentor engineers to raise technical standards.

Skills

AI tooling

Full-stack

Cloud

Security

Distributed systems

API-driven

Code review

Mentoring

CI/CD

Education

Software Engineering

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude

Enterprise AI platforms

Job description

FACT (PTY) LTD in Johannesburg seeks a Senior AI/Agentic Software Engineer for a 6-month on-site contract. You will direct AI-powered software engineering tasks, design scalable architectures, and lead cross-functional teams across frontend, backend, APIs, mobile, and cloud domains.

The role emphasizes evaluation of AI-generated code, building reusable AI-enabled capabilities, and mentoring engineers to raise the team’s technical bar in a fast-paced enterprise setting.