Senior / Mid Software Engineer

Pty; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Pty in Cape Town is seeking a Senior / Mid Software Engineer to design and implement scalable services. You will work on distributed, event-driven architectures and deliver robust backend components.

The role also covers reactive frontend development with React/TypeScript, building cloud-native solutions on AWS, and collaborating across teams to push features to production.

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed, event-driven architectures and handling failure modes.
• Front-end experience with React/TypeScript is preferred.
• Cloud-native development with AWS is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable backend services and distributed systems.
• Build reactive frontend components using React/TypeScript.
• Collaborate across teams to deploy features to production.

Skills

Distributed systems

React/TypeScript

AWS cloud-native

TS/JS/Python/C# depth

Job description

Senior / Mid Software Engineer

Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 08/21/2026

• Production experiencewith distributed systems — event-driven architectures, queues, and thefailure modes that come with them.
  
• Reactive front-endexperience, preferably React/TypeScript. Cloud-native, preferably AWS.
  
• Language-flexible:TS/JS, Python, or C# — we care more about depth than which one.
  
• Preferred: has shippedan LLM-backed system to production users.
  
• Not required: AI/MLresearch background, certifications, fintech experience.