Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Fintech Payments (Africa)

Black Pen Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + performance bonuses

Opportunity to shape the future of cross-border payments

Work with an experienced, diverse team

Job summary

A high-growth fintech company is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to design and develop payment platforms. The ideal candidate has 4–7 years of experience in engineering, strong expertise in Java or Python, and frontend experience with React.js or Vue.js. This position offers a competitive salary and performance bonuses as well as the opportunity to work in a hybrid environment in Cape Town.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years’ experience as a Full Stack Engineer, preferably in fintech.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of blockchain fundamentals and working with Web3 APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable platforms for payments and settlement.
• Build and maintain secure, high-performance APIs for payment processing.
• Work closely with Product, Compliance, and Ops.

Skills

Backend experience in Java or Python

Frontend experience in React.js and Vue.js

Strong API development experience (REST, GraphQL)

Experience with CI/CD pipelines

Team lead experience

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Fintech/Payments)

About the job Senior Full Stack Engineer (Fintech/Payments)

Our client is a technology company solving payments problems for businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. They provide a suite of products to help businesses accept payments online and offline, manage their operations, and grow their business. Our client is driven by a commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

Role Overview

As a senior full-stack engineer, you take responsibility for delivering and supporting robust back-end and front-end applications that expose our client’s data and functionality to internal and external users. Applications handling financial information need to be able to handle large data sets in a performant manner, while being highly accurate and reliable. You’ll work with a team of talented engineers to design and build systems that support some of South Africa’s best known brands.

Job Type: Full Time/Permanent

Location: South Africa

Workplace: Hybrid

Requirements

• 8 years of experience as a full stack engineer.
• Working on large, distributed systems at scale
• Understanding and working with SQL databases
• Writing solid unit testing and integration tests
• You communicate clearly and are able to collaborate in a remote environment
• Taking ownership of work assigned to you
• You have a passion for building products to help African businesses

Our technology stack includes the following:

• Node.js
• Frameworks: Express.js, Sails.js and Nest.js
• Frontend frameworks: React, Angular and Vue
• Redis
• MySQL and MongoDB
• Docker
• AWS

Responsibilities

• Architect and Develop: Design and implement robust solutions for our platform, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
• Product Innovation: Design and development of technical solutions to deliver on our product vision.
• Technical Problem Solving: Tackle complex technical challenges, providing innovative solutions to enhance system performance and reliability.
• System Integration: Collaborate on the refinement of the platform’s architecture, focusing on optimization and seamless integration to other systems.
• Code Review and Testing: Review specifications and code submissions and conduct thorough testing to maintain code quality.
• System support: Collaborate with other teams, both inside and outside engineering, to assist merchants and customers where necessary.