Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Zohorecruit; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 520,000 - 780,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit in Stellenbosch, South Africa, is seeking a seasoned fullstack developer to join a dynamic, multicultural team. You will work on backend and frontend development, mentored juniors, and contribute to code quality, security, and performance across projects.

The role covers NodeJS, Java, TypeScript, CSS, REST/JSON/XML, and relational databases (MySQL) with Redis. You’ll rely on Git, CI pipelines, and modern frameworks such as ReactJS, NextJS, and Spring Boot to deliver robust

Qualifications

• Five+ years of backend and frontend development experience.
• Experience with NodeJS and popular frameworks/libraries.
• Experience with Java and popular frameworks/libraries.
• Experience in TypeScript.
• Full understanding of CSS.
• Experience with relational databases and platforms and SQL (MySQL), Redis.
• Full understanding of REST, JSON, XML, HTML.
• Full understanding of source control processes and using GIT.
• Knowledge of security, performance, memory management, maintainability, and data structures.

Responsibilities

• Follow best coding practices - unit tests, documenting and documented code.
• Conduct unit testing and deployment of various applications to backend servers.
• Mentor juniors in a team setting.
• Maintain and improve code quality and stability.
• Improve and maintain security and data integrity on various projects.
• Continually learn and apply development skills within the team.

Skills

5+ years exp

Backend & frontend

CSS

REST/JSON/XML/HTML

Security best practices

Linux/Unix

Tools

NodeJS

Java

TypeScript

SQL (MySQL)

Redis

GIT

Spring Boot

Hibernate

JPA

ReactJS

React-Native

Angular

NextJS

Laravel

Tomcat

Job description

Stellenbosch, South Africa

Responsibilities

• Follow best coding practices - writing unit tests, writing documenting and documented code.
• Conduct unit testing and deployment of various applications to backend servers.
• Work together with juniors in a mentoring role.
• Maintain and improve code quality and stability.
• Improve and maintain security and data integrity on various projects.
• Continually learn and improve development skills and apply them within the team.

Frontend

• Java
• NodeJS
• PHP (legacy)

Frameworks and tools

• Spring Boot
• Hibernate
• JPA
• React-JS
• React-Native
• Angular (legacy)
• NextJS
• Laravel (legacy)
• Node
• PNPM
• NPM
• Yarn
• Tomcat

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in backend and frontend development.
• Experience with NodeJS - popular frameworks, libraries.
• Experience with Java - popular frameworks, libraries.
• Experience in TypeScript.
• Full understanding of CSS.
• Experience working with relational databases and platforms and SQL (MySQL), Redis.
• Full understanding of supporting technologies - REST, JSON, XML, HTML.
• Full understanding of source control process and using GIT.
• Knowledge of best practices in security, performance, memory management, maintainability, data structures.
• Good understanding of server infrastructure, web protocols.
• Experience with Linux/Unix based servers.

Additional skills that are advantageous

• Experience with React and React-JS.
• Experience in React-Native and native mobile development.
• Knowledge of Swift and Objective-C.

You’ll be working in a vibrating environment, with a multicultural highly energetic, enthusiastic, positive team whose sole focus is on growth, growing personally as individuals, but growing professionally through all the opportunities within the group operating in various countries (France, Tunisia and SA).