Senior Full Stack Engineer – Python

60 Degrees; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 400,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A global fintech company is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to enhance customer-facing payment experiences throughout Africa. This remote position requires strong experience in cloud-based backend engineering with skills in Python, TypeScript, and AWS. The ideal candidate should excel in solving complex problems and thrive in fast-paced environments where they own projects end-to-end.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud-based backend engineering.
• Strong experience with Python and TypeScript.
• AWS experience primarily with Lambda, API Gateway, and Serverless.

Responsibilities

• Build new features and enhance existing Commerce features.
• Design, build, and integrate technical requirements.
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payment processing.

Skills

Cloud-based backend engineering

Python

TypeScript

AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless)

MySQL

MongoDB

Payments experience

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

Job description

Overview

THE OPPORTUNITY THAT AWAITS YOU

We\'ve partnered with a global payments house in fintech who is scaling across their product engineering team. The current need is for a seasoned Full Stack Engineer to build customer-facing payment experiences across Africa.

This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, loves solving complex problems, and wants to work on systems that process millions of transactions.

Responsibilities

• Successfully build new features, and enhance existing Commerce features
• Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team across our full Commerce product portfolio
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payment processing to our backend
• Effective troubleshooting and debugging of Commerce issues
• Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis

Required expertise

Technical Expertise:

• 7+ years of experience in cloud-based backend engineering
• Strong experience with Python and TypeScript
• AWS experience (primarily Lambda, API Gateway and Serverless)
• Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB)
• Bonus - Experience with Payments

Problem-Solving & Ownership:

• Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new features
• Able to iteratively maintain and evolve existing features to meet best practices and modern standards
• Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment

Collaboration & Communication:

• Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners

Working Model: Remote

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