Senior Full-Stack Engineer — AI Platform & Impact

the-global-talent-co; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

The Global Talent Co is seeking a highly autonomous Senior Full Stack Engineer with strong experience building and shipping production software across the stack, combined with hands-on experience developing and operating AI/LLM-powered applications in production. You will be one of the first engineering hires, owning technical decisions, standards, architecture, and the product itself.

You will own problems from the initial conversation with the grant team through to production, driving usable

Qualifications

• Proficient in TypeScript and Node.js with several years of professional experience.
• Deep Postgres knowledge, including JSONB, performance, and migrations.
• Full-stack skills across Next.js/React Query, Express, BullMQ, and AWS ECS/RDS.
• Experience building and operating AI pipelines in production with LLMs.
• Strong prompt engineering, context management, model selection, and AI evaluation.
• High autonomy, ownership, usability-focused, and proactive problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship end-to-end product features independently, including the user interface.
• Work confidently across the frontend, backend, infrastructure, and AI pipeline.
• Build from real user problems by working closely with the grant team, rather than predefined tickets.
• Develop interfaces with a usability-first mindset, ensuring the product genuinely works for grant writers.
• Take ownership of problems from initial discovery through to production deployment.
• Contribute to reducing the time from starting a new project to a finished, submitted application through product improvements, automation, and better workflows.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Postgres

JSONB

Next.js

React Query

Express

BullMQ

AWS

Terraform

AI pipelines

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Debugging

Autonomy

Usability

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Tools

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Job description

The Global Talent Co is seeking a highly autonomous Senior Full Stack Engineer with strong experience building and shipping production software across the stack, combined with hands-on experience developing and operating AI/LLM-powered applications in production. You will be one of the first engineering hires, owning technical decisions, standards, architecture, and the product itself.

You will own problems from the initial conversation with the grant team through to production, driving usable