Senior Product Engineer

HuntWave Technologies; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 400,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A fashion technology firm in Cape Town seeks an engineer to drive AI-native development and product ownership. You will develop features across the tech stack, engage with stakeholders, and participate in product discovery. Ideal candidates are excited by complexity and have experience shipping real products. This role offers a competitive package and hybrid work flexibility.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Store allowance/discounts

Hybrid/remote flexibility

Qualifications

• Experience in developing and improving real products post-launch.
• Ability to work in complex environments and improve data syncing.
• Familiarity with AI tools and their application in product development.

Responsibilities

• Own features from first sketch to metrics dashboards.
• Drive features across the tech stack.
• Engage in product discovery and present concepts to stakeholders.

Skills

AI Development

Product Engineering

Integration Skills

Context Engineering

Tools

React

Next.JS

Python

AWS

Job description

About Our Client

They buy overrun, overstock and returned apparel from Europe’s biggest fashion houses, revive it, and give it a second life in emerging markets.

Their mission: To be the world’s most innovative fashion outlet

• Physical footprint: 12 stores (SA) 20 stores by year-end
• Tech footprint: AWS-native, React, Next.JS, React Native, TypeScript, Python, MedusaJS
• Data obsession: They’re building a real-time lake, ML-powered buying tools, and an offline-first POS because smarter data = better buying = more sales.

Role Overview

You’ll own features end-to-end from first sketch to metrics dashboards while leaning heavily on AI coding copilots and tools to keep velocity extreme and busy-work minimal.

What You’ll Do

AI-Native Development

• Context Engineering
• Develop, orchestrate and refine AI agents for boilerplate and tests.
• Drop into “manual mode” with serious engineering firepower when the bots tap out.
• Share prompt and context-engineering tricks and workflows with the team.
• Become an AI-enabled weapon!

Product Engineering & Ownership

• Drive features across our stack; MedusaJS plug-ins, APIs, React Native UIs, Lambda data jobs.
• Define success metrics, instrument them, and iterate fast.
• Pair with product & design on continuous discovery (we interview store staff and customers weekly).

Composable Commerce & Integrations

• Extend our headless core: catalog, cart, checkout, BNPL (Payflex, PayJustNow), inventory sync.
• Craft robust integrations with ERPNext, payment gateways, and warehouse scanners.
• Keep everything observable (OpenTelemetry traces, k6 smoke tests).

Customer & Stakeholder Loop

• Sit in on buying-team stand-ups, warehouse floor walks, and store pilots.
• Present concepts, prototypes, and learnings to non-technical stakeholders.

What We Offer

• Build at the frontier: Green-field MACH architecture, Computer Vision, live retail environments, AI-accelerated workflows and much more!
• Real ownership: You’ll ship to stores & customers within weeks, not quarters.
• Career rocket-fuel: Scale with us from 12 to 20 stores and beyond; carve out your own lane (staff engineer, tech-lead, architect). We’re pre-Series A and cooking
• Hybrid/Remote flexibility: Cape Town, ~2 in-office days/week for deep collaboration & store visits or fully remote with periodic in-office or store visits.
• Competitive package: Competitive salary, store allowance/discounts (look good, feel good - coming soon).

Who Thrives Here

• You’ve shipped real products and improved them post-launch.

• Complexity excites you, integrations, inventory math, syncing offline data.

• You treat AI tools as teammates, not magic.

• “Good enough to ship” beats “perfect later,” but you refactor ruthlessly.

• You want your code to drive tangible revenue, not just close Jira tickets.

If this sounds equal parts thrilling and terrifying, you’re probably our kind of engineer.