Software Engineer

AnyVan; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,315,000 - 2,082,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous time off

Health & wellbeing

Future ready pension

Family support

Easy travel

Daily perks

Culture & community

Career growth

Job summary

AnyVan, a disruptive technology leader in logistics, invites engineers to design scalable, production-grade systems and improve them in production. You’ll work across full-stack challenges, collaborating with product and non-technical teammates to deliver value, while embracing scalable architectures and modern deployment practices.

The role emphasizes shipping value quickly, adapting to evolving requirements, and contributing to a fast-growing platform used across UK offices.

Qualifications

• Experience in an engineering role, ideally in a scale-up or fast-growing product environment.
• Good understanding of APIs, data models, and system interactions.
• Exposure to cloud environments and modern deployment workflows.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and evolving requirements.
• Bias toward action, shipping value quickly, then iterating.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade systems that scale.
• Help operate and improve systems in production.
• Write clean, pragmatic, well-tested code with long-term maintainability in mind.
• Tackle full stack technical challenges and data flows.
• Collaborate with product and non-technical teammates to understand requirements.
• Learning best practices around scalability, performance, and system design.

Skills

APIs & data models

Cloud deployment

Collaboration

Proactive mindset

Shipping value quickly

Tools

Go

Rust

React

Node.js

Python

Vue.js

Nuxt

TypeScript

Java

PHP

Angular

Job description

Got Drive? Join AnyVan as we make moving anything, anywhere miles better and build a career that moves just as fast.

Back in 2009, our CEO Angus saw half-empty vans everywhere and knew there had to be a better way! That's how AnyVan began. He set out to create the world's most efficient logistics technology and help halve the number of wasted miles by filling those empty vans.

Since then we've become the nation's favourite way to move, with over 150k five-star reviews and 5 million customers in the UK and Europe. Our team of 400 AnyVanners across London, Cape Town and Bogota is proving that moving doesn't have to cost the earth by helping save 8,520 tonnes of Carbon each year.

At AnyVan, we're building one of the most sophisticated logistics optimisation platforms in Europe. We connect customer demand with real-time driver availability, using intelligent matching, dynamic pricing, and AI to deliver a world-class service at market-beating prices.

By routing jobs to vans already on the road, we reduce wasted miles, cut emissions, and ensure drivers earn fairly. It's logistics, pricing, and marketplace dynamics, driven by software and increasingly by machine intelligence.

And we're moving fast.

We're embedding AI and machine learning across our core platform, not as experiments, but as production systems that drive real business outcomes:

• Real-time, intelligent pricing that models true job-level costs and responds dynamically to supply, demand, and market conditions
• Predictive demand and routing models that forecast driver availability and optimise job allocation before a customer even books
• LLM-powered tooling across our internal and customer-facing products, from intelligent quoting to driver workflow automation
• A two-sided marketplace where drivers can buy and sell jobs to maximise utilisation — powered by smart matching algorithms

This is genuinely leading-edge work: production AI systems, at scale, on problems that matter.

We're looking for a pragmatic engineer who enjoys solving business problems through technology.

Our technology

We're pragmatic and cloud-first, running on AWS, with the flexibility to choose the right tool for the job:

• Exploring: Go, Rust, React, Node.js
• Core stack: Python, Vue.js & Nuxt, TypeScript
• Legacy (retiring where we can): Java, PHP, Angular

You don't need experience in everything, we value strong fundamentals and good engineering judgement over keyword matching.

What you'll be doing:

• Design and build production-grade systems that scale
• Help operate and improve systems in production
• Write clean, pragmatic, well-tested code with long-term maintainability in mind
• Tackle full stack technical challenges and data flows
• Collaborate with product and non-technical teammates to understand requirements
• Learning best practices around scalability, performance, and system design

What you'll bring:

• Experience in an engineering role, ideally in a scale-up or fast-growing product environment
• A good understanding of APIs, data models, and system interactions
• Exposure to cloud environments and modern deployment workflows
• Comfort working with ambiguity and evolving requirements
• A bias toward action, shipping value quickly, then iterating
• Proactive mindset and a want to deliver above and beyond not just what you're tasked
• Solid coding skills and a solutions/problems solving approach
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to influence beyond your code
• Bonus points for exposure to marketplaces, logistics, pricing, or e-commerce systems.

Location and Eligibility:

• UK based, able to commute to our offices in Hammersmith
• Happy to be onsite at least 3 days per week
• Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position

What We Offer:

Competitive Salary - Highly competitive salaries

Generous Time Off - 25 days +public holidays, Christmas Eve on us, Long-service perks capped at 30 days.

Health & Wellbeing - On-site gym, Membership with Vitality, Enhanced sick pay

Future Ready - The People’s Pension (5% you, 3% us)

Family Support - Enhanced maternity pay

Easy Travel - 2 minutes’ walk from the tube, Octopus Electric Vehicles, a Cycle to Work Scheme with Showers and towels on site.

Daily Perks - In-house barista coffee, free breakfast every day and local discounts

Culture & Community - Weekly drinks, fun socials, and rewards that take you places (literally - last winners hit the Alps)

Career Growth - Join a disruptive technology leader and fast forward your career move

Our company values are:

• Have fun, get it done
• Progress over perfection
• One team thinking big

You can find out more about our Company, Culture and Values here:

General FAQ's about AnyVan

Our Culture

DE&I

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where every voice is heard, every perspective is valued, and every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to be part of our mission and contribute to our vibrant culture.