Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Myremota; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Life leave allocation

VSOP equity program

Market-related salaries

Job summary

Peach Payments is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack to join our Engineering team. This remote-friendly role supports a payout-focused portfolio with a hybrid office presence in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Mauritius or Kenya.

You will own end-to-end features across the full stack, mentor peers, and leverage AI tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining security and quality. You should bring 7+ years in cloud-based software engineering, strong TypeScript and Python skills, AWS

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud-based software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with TypeScript and Python.
• AWS experience (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless).
• Database experience (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Comfortable using AI coding tools to boost productivity without sacrificing quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship new Payouts features across the full stack.
• Translate technical requirements into robust solutions with the team.
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payout processing in backend/integrations.
• Troubleshoot production issues using logs and monitoring.
• Own complex initiatives from design through delivery with minimal oversight.
• Mentor less senior engineers via pairing and code reviews.
• Leverage AI development tools while maintaining code quality and ownership.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

AWS

AI coding tools

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

Postman

Cypress

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Location: Remote (Head Office: Cape Town, South Africa; with offices in Johannesburg, Mauritius and Kenya)

Department: Engineering

Company: Peach Payments

About Peach Payments

Peach Payments is a cutting-edge fintech company shaping the future of digital payments across Africa. We empower businesses of all sizes - from startups to enterprise merchants - by providing a secure, scalable, and seamless payments infrastructure.

We have a hybrid working environment

We offer a hybrid work environment, allowing for a combination of remote and in-office work. Whilst there is currently no in-office requirement for this team, this may change periodically, as determined by your manager or the organisation.

Mission: Why This Role Exists

In the Payouts team, we enable money to move reliably from Peach Payments to merchants, beneficiaries, and partners across Africa. Our portfolio covers the products and services that power payouts - including initiation and orchestration of disbursements, status tracking and reconciliation, payout configuration and APIs for merchant integration, and the operational tooling that keeps payouts secure, compliant, and observable at scale.

This team maintains and evolves existing payout capabilities while building new features to support merchant needs and new business opportunities. As a Senior Engineer, you will own complex work end-to-end and help less senior engineers grow through pairing, design reviews, and clear technical guidance.

Our Tech Stack

• Languages: TypeScript and Python
• Infrastructure: AWS (primarily Lambda, API Gateway, S3 and Serverless)
• Databases: PostgreSQL,DynamoDB, MySQL, MongoDB
• Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, Cypress
• AI tools: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and similar AI-assisted development tools
• CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines
• Monitoring: Grafana / Sentry / Datadog

Role expectations

• Design, build, and ship new Payouts features, and improve existing ones, across the full stack
• Translate technical requirements into robust solutions alongside the team across our payments product portfolio
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payout processing in our backend and integrations
• Troubleshoot and debug Payouts issues effectively in productionIndependently diagnose incidents and propose fixes using logs, monitoring, and code analysis
• Own complex initiatives from design through delivery, with minimal oversight
• Mentor and support less senior engineers through pairing, code review, and coaching so the team levels up together
• Use AI development tools thoughtfully to accelerate delivery while maintaining high code quality, security, and ownership of the outcome

Competencies: What You Bring

Technical Expertise:

• 7+ years of experience in cloud-based software engineering (strong backend; comfortable across the full stack)
• Strong experience with TypeScript and Python
• AWS experience (primarily Lambda, API Gateway, and Serverless)
• Database experience (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB)
• Comfortable using AI coding tools (e.g. Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT) to boost productivity without sacrificing judgement, testing, or security
• Bonus: experience with payments or financial disbursements

Problem-Solving & Ownership:

• Designs elegant, scalable solutions for new features
• Iteratively improves existing systems toward best practices and modern standards
• Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment
• Comfortable leading complex, ambiguous work independently while keeping stakeholders informed

Mentorship & Collaboration:

• Actively helps less senior team members develop their skills through clear feedback, pairing, and knowledge sharing
• Works well in a remote/hybrid team, with strong written and verbal English
• Collaborates effectively with product, operations, and external partners

Why Join Peach Payments?

• Impact: Work on mission-critical payments infrastructure processing millions of transactions
• Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company expanding across Africa
• Culture: Join a high-performance, diverse, and empathetic team focused on respect for people and merchant success
• Flexibility: Remote-first hybrid working - work from anywhere (+-3 hours of SAST) while staying connected to a world-class team
• Benefits - Benefits include a generous annual and life leave allocation, market related salaries, owning the piece of the Peach pie through VSOP and more

Be part of our journey to redefine digital payments in Africa!

At Peach Payments we value diversity and are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences.