Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer — Remote (Startup)

The Global Talent Co.; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Global Talent Co. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, infrastructure and the AI pipeline.

You will work closely with founders and grant-writing teams in a remote setting, with a small, fast-moving engineering group and no mid-level designer or product manager. This role suits a senior engineer who ships quickly and communicates trade-offs clearly.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a senior engineering role with ownership of products or major features end-to-end
• Startup or scale-up experience taking unclear problems and shipping solutions quickly
• Proficient in TypeScript/Node.js frontend and backend, plus PostgreSQL depth and migrations

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end from discovery to production
• Turn ambiguous problems into clear technical plans and ship quickly
• Advance AI pipeline with prompt engineering, context management and multi-provider setup
• Build and own AI evaluation: prompt quality, model selection and regression detection
• Operate, monitor and debug live production (Sentry, CloudWatch, Postgres)
• Shape code quality, technical roadmap and engineering standards
• Build user-friendly interfaces that truly help grant writers
• Shorten project start-to-finish time via automation and reliability

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Startup/scale-up experience

English communication

Senior engineering

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Next.js

React Query

Express

BullMQ

PostgreSQL

AWS

Terraform

Anthropic/OpenAI APIs

Sentry

CloudWatch

Claude Code / Cursor

Job description

The Global Talent Co. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, infrastructure and the AI pipeline.

You will work closely with founders and grant-writing teams in a remote setting, with a small, fast-moving engineering group and no mid-level designer or product manager. This role suits a senior engineer who ships quickly and communicates trade-offs clearly.