Senior Cloud-Native Engineer — TypeScript + AWS (Hybrid)

Communicate Recruitment; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Communicate Recruitment is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Cape Town, offering a hybrid work setup. You will own complex features from design to deployment, shaping scalable cloud-native products in a TypeScript, AWS and event-driven environment.

You will work across the development lifecycle, mentor peers, and contribute to engineering standards while delivering reliable systems and quality code.

Qualifications

• 5+ years software development experience
• Strong commercial experience with TypeScript, Node.js and React
• Proven experience building and operating production systems in AWS (EKS, Lambda, RDS)
• Strong experience designing and developing RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• Practical experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Kafka
• Experience with event-driven architectures
• Strong automated testing experience (Jest, Pact, TDD)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform
• Experience with Datadog or similar observability/monitoring platforms
• Experience with Git, Jira and Confluence in Agile environment

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy high-quality, scalable software and services.
• Own complex features from initial design through to production.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and QA teams to deliver technical solutions.
• Build and maintain automated unit, integration and contract testing.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Deploy and operate cloud-based services using AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Monitor system health and troubleshoot production issues.
• Contribute to engineering standards, architecture and best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and share knowledge across the team.
• Mentor and support less experienced engineers.
• Work in an Agile environment with ownership mentality.

Skills

Cloud-native

TypeScript

Node.js

React

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GraphQL

RESTful API design

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Event-driven architecture

Jest

Pact

TDD

CI/CD

Git

Jira

Confluence

Tools

AWS

Docker

Job description

Communicate Recruitment is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Cape Town, offering a hybrid work setup. You will own complex features from design to deployment, shaping scalable cloud-native products in a TypeScript, AWS and event-driven environment.

You will work across the development lifecycle, mentor peers, and contribute to engineering standards while delivering reliable systems and quality code.