Senior React Engineer

Ditto Hire; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Ditto Hire is looking for a React Engineer to join their team and help build the future of professional platforms. Your role will focus on creating modern, responsive user interfaces powered by AI-driven workflows and interacting with complex back-end services.

The ideal candidate has strong React and Next.js experience, a deep understanding of SPA architecture, and has shipped production software. Joining Ditto means being part of a groundbreaking AI-native product with millions of users from launch.

Qualifications

• Strong React + Next.js experience.
• Deep understanding of modern SPA architecture.
• Experience shipping real production software.

Responsibilities

• Build modern, responsive UIs powered by AI-driven workflows.
• Integrate AI features into real product flows.
• Help define frontend communication with orchestration layers.

Skills

React

Next.js

REST APIs

Node.js

NPM

Git

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Jest

Job description

React Engineer – AI-Native Frontend | Build the Future of Professional Platforms

Ditto is building the next generation of recruitment and professional platforms, used by millions each month. We help staffing firms and hiring teams find, manage, and place top candidates with smart, beautiful software.

Now we’re launching something new.
AI-native.
Agent-driven.
Stealth.

We’re looking for a React Engineer who understands that modern frontend is no longer just UI. It’s automation, orchestration, agent interaction, and intelligent workflows.

If you want to build interfaces that sit on top of AI agents, automate real work, and ship fast with serious scale from day one, keep reading.

What You’ll Do

• Build modern, responsive UIs powered by AI-driven workflows
• Design frontends that interact with agents, automations, and intelligent back-end services
• Integrate AI features into real product flows, not gimmicks
• Work closely with product and design to build fast, intuitive, opinionated experiences
• Write clean, scalable components that support dynamic, AI-generated content
• Implement automated test scripts and validation flows for AI interactions
• Help define how our frontend talks to orchestration layers, APIs, and agent systems
• Own performance, reliability, and developer experience

Must-Haves

• Strong React + Next.js experience
• Deep understanding of modern SPA architecture
• REST APIs + JSON fluency
• Node.js + NPM
• Git (you’re comfortable in real-world team repos)
• Experience shipping real production software
• Comfort working in fast-moving environments

Strong Bonus If You’ve Worked With

• AI agents, automation workflows, or LLM-powered features
• Prompt orchestration patterns
• Tool-calling flows or agent frameworks
• Automated testing (Playwright, Cypress, Jest)
• Scriptable workflows (Bash, CLI tools, automation tooling)
• Cursor or AI-assisted coding tools
• Performance tuning and caching strategies
• Design systems and component libraries
• Writing documentation that engineers actually read

If you’ve built interfaces that sit on top of AI, orchestration layers, or automation systems - that’s a big plus.

The Type of Engineer We Want

• You think in systems.
• You don’t panic when something becomes dynamic or unpredictable.
• You understand that AI outputs require guardrails, validation, and good UX.
• You care about performance and elegance.
• You ship.

Why Join Ditto?

• Ground-floor on a major AI-native product
• Millions of users at launch
• Real ownership. No bureaucracy.
• Fast shipping cycles
• Smart, opinionated builders
• We build serious infrastructure. Not corporate fluff.

We’re rethinking how professionals present themselves, connect, and build identity online.