Software Engineer: Full Stack 10088

Capitec Bank Ltd.; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in South Africa is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer. This role involves developing and maintaining scalable web applications and requires expertise in the Spring ecosystem, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Candidates should have over 3 years of experience in production-grade applications and a strong understanding of modern development practices. The position offers growth opportunities and aims to make a positive impact in the financial sector.

Benefits

Growth opportunities

Technical excellence in fintech

Impact on financial lives

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production-grade applications with demonstrable impact on user experience.
• Deep expertise in the Spring ecosystem including Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
• Database mastery - complex queries and performance tuning in PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable microservices using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
• Build resilient distributed systems for financial transactions.
• Develop secure RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures.

Skills

Spring Boot

PostgreSQL

AWS

Java

RESTful APIs

Agile methodologies

Education

Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology

Tools

Spring Cloud

Kubernetes

React

Maven

Job description

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We appoint energized and motivated people for their potentialandcontinuously look fortalented, driven individualstohelp usinnovate and evolve.That is why we focus on finding the right people for the right jobs. We love what we do because we focus on making a positive difference for our clients and employees. Our company DNA is built around talented and committed teams dedicated to build a brand that we are proud of and earns the trust of our clients.

Who We Are

We are a bank, but we’re much more than that.We believe that banking is about enabling peopleto control their financial lives through banking that is simplified, accessible, affordable and delivered through personal experience. By helping our clients manage their financial lives better, we enable them to live better.

Why Choose Us

At Capitec, we offer our best by living up to our CEO values in every situation – we always put the Client first, act with Energy and take Ownership. And to support people in being their best,our Employee Value Propositionoffersevery value to all team members through cohesive teams, growth opportunities as well asemployee benefitsand savings. We make it a priority toensure that each member of the Capitec team feels welcome, valued, focused, and has the opportunity to grow.

About the role

The Full Stack Software Engineer plays a crucial role in developing and maintaining both front-end and back-end components of web applications and works on all layers of the application stack. They are therefore responsible for applying a holistic approach to building solutions that not only offer optimum performance, reliability, and scale but also create great client experiences.

What you will be doing:

• Architect scalable microservices using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud in a highly distributed banking environment
• Build resilient distributed systems that reliably handle financial transactions daily
• Design and optimize complex database schemas in PostgreSQL for performance at scale
• Develop secure RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures using Spring ecosystem
• Deploy and orchestrate containerized applications using Kubernetes
• Champion code quality through unit, integration and acceptance testing, including continuous integration practices
• Collaborate in cross-functional teams using Agile methodologies

What we're looking for:

• 3+ years building production-grade applications with demonstrable impact on user experience and system performance
• Deep expertise in Spring ecosystem - Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Data
• Modern React development (Optional) with hooks, context, and state management libraries
• Database mastery - complex queries, performance tuning, and data modeling in PostgreSQL
• AWS cloud expertise - S3, RDS, SQS, MSK, and other core services for scalable infrastructure
• Cloud-native mindset - containerization, orchestration, and distributed system patterns
• DevOps fluency - CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and production monitoring
• Observability expertise - Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch stack, and application performance monitoring
• Backend: Java 21+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Maven
• Frontend (Optional): React, TypeScript, modern CSS
• Cloud: AWS (S3, RDS, SQS, MSK)

Why you'll love it here:

• Technical excellence: Work with cutting-edge fintech architecture serving millions of users
• Growth opportunities: Continuous learning, internal tech talks and the reach to influence the overall engineering culture
• Impact: Your code directly improves financial lives across South Africa

Education (Minimum)

• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

Education (Ideal or Preferred)

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology

Additional Information

• Clear criminal and credit record

Capitec is committed to diversity, applications to this position will strictly be considered in support of our employment equity goals.

Capitec Bank is an authorised financial services provider (FSP 46669) and registered credit provider (NCRCP13). Capitec Bank Limited Reg. No: 1980/003695/06