Senior Fintech Engineer - Fully Remote

Placements24; Polokwane; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Health insurance

Online courses

Career growth

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Fintech Developer to join a fully remote engineering team. You will design, build, test and deploy high-quality financial software, leveraging Java, Python, Go and modern frontend ties to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with product, design and other engineers, mentor juniors, implement APIs, ensure data protection, optimize performance and stay current with fintech trends in a remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, fintech focus preferred.
• Strong backend skills in Java, Python or Go; frontend experience a plus.
• Cloud, containers and modern API development essential.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy financial software solutions.
• Collaborate with product, design and engineering to implement features.
• Write clean, maintainable code and APIs for financial systems.
• Implement and maintain security measures and data protection.
• Optimize performance, scalability and reliability of applications.
• Mentor junior developers and participate in code reviews.
• Stay updated with fintech trends and best practices.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

Problem solving

Autonomy

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Java

Python

Go

React

Angular

Vue.js

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

NoSQL

CI/CD

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Fintech Developer to join a fully remote engineering team. You will design, build, test and deploy high-quality financial software, leveraging Java, Python, Go and modern frontend ties to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with product, design and other engineers, mentor juniors, implement APIs, ensure data protection, optimize performance and stay current with fintech trends in a remote-first environment.