Senior Software Developer (Infrastructure & Ci/Cd Focus)

Mvia; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

MVIA in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town is seeking a Senior Software Developer to take ownership of architecture, code quality, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production reliability. You will lead a cross-functional team across React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and SQL to deliver robust software.

The ideal candidate will balance shipping speed with stability, mentor teammates, and improve automation across deployment pipelines.

Qualifications

• Experience leading full-stack development across modern JS stacks.
• Proven ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with containerisation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ability to mentor and review code in a senior role.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack development across React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and SQL.
• Build, optimise, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for testing and deployment.
• Support Docker containerisation, infrastructure-as-code, cloud deployment, and environment management.
• Diagnose production bottlenecks, lead root-cause analysis, and implement resilient fixes.
• Mentor less-experienced developers through architectural guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Full-stack dev

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud deployment

Infrastructure as code

Production reliability

Mentoring

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

SQL

Tools

Docker

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

SQL

Job description

Senior Software Developer (Infrastructure & CI/CD Focus) MVIA•Southern Suburbs (Cape), ZA

We are looking for an experienced Full-Stack Developer to join us in a Senior Engineering role, taking active ownership of architecture, code quality, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack development across React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and SQL.
• Build, optimise, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for testing and deployment.
• Support Docker containerisation, infrastructure-as-code, cloud deployment, and environment management.
• Diagnose production bottlenecks, lead root-cause analysis, and implement resilient fixes.
• Mentor less-experienced developers through architectural guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Ideal Candidate

• Pragmatic about trade-offs between shipping speed, code quality and system stability.
• Comfortable owning ambiguity — able to diagnose an unfamiliar system under pressure.
• Generous with knowledge; makes the developers around you better.
• Improvement-minded — you automate the thing you have had to do manually three times.