Senior Software Engineer — Infrastructure & CI/CD

Mvia

Cape Town

On-site

ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Mvia, a Senior Engineering team in South Africa, seeks a seasoned Full-Stack Developer to own architecture, code quality, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production reliability. You will lead full-stack work across React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and SQL, build and optimise automated CI/CD pipelines, and mentor others to improve system stability and shipping velocity.

The role emphasizes pragmatic decision-making, ownership of ambiguity, knowledge sharing, and a bias for

Qualifications

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.

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.