Systems Developer

Top Vitae Recruitment; Gqeberha; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Top Vitae Recruitment is seeking a full-stack software developer in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape. The role involves building and maintaining crucial data management & governance applications across financial services.

The ideal candidate should have 1-3 years of software development experience and familiarity with Go and cloud-native infrastructure. Strong communication skills and an interest in asset management or fintech are also required.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of software development experience.
• Comfortable working across the stack and learning new tools quickly.
• Experience with LLM‑enhanced workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines and instrument schema for workflows.
• Develop systems to monitor portfolios against regulatory requirements.
• Build scalable reporting capabilities for industry-standard reports.

Skills

Software development experience

Backend engineering fundamentals

Frontend engineering fundamentals

Curiosity about asset management

Strong written and verbal communication

Education

Related tertiary qualification

Tools

Go (Golang)

Vue

TypeScript

gRPC

Protobufs

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

You'll work across the full stack to build and operate the platform that asset and wealth managers rely on every day.

Responsibilities

• Data Management & Governance Applications
  • Building and maintaining the data pipelines and instrument schema that underpin every other workflow. This includes custom integrations with management companies, administrators, and platforms; LLM‑enhanced instrument mapping; and ensuring data is interoperable, available, and trustworthy across the business.
• Portfolio Rebalance & Compliance Applications
  • Developing the systems that monitor portfolios against mandated rules and regulatory requirements, and that support trade construction, pre‑trade checks, and post‑trade verification. The work spans API‑first integrations with order management systems and external administrators.
• Regulatory Reporting Applications & Workflows
  • Building scalable reporting capabilities from industry‑standard reports, regulatory submissions, to custom reports for clients, DFMs and platforms. Designing report generation to be reproducible, auditable, and fast.

Requirements

• 1–3 years software development experience
• Related tertiary qualification
• Strong backend and frontend engineering fundamentals
• Comfortable working across the stack and learning new tools quickly
• Curiosity about asset management, fintech, or both
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Protobufs — schema definition language for all data contracts
• gRPC / gRPC Web — transport layer between services and to the browser
• Go (Golang) — primary backend language
• Vue & TypeScript — primary frontend framework
• Cloud‑native infrastructure — Google Cloud Platform
• LLM‑enhanced workflows — selectively applied where they earn their keep

Advantageous

• Experience with Go, TypeScript, or gRPC
• Exposure to financial services, fund administration, or regtech
• Prior work with cloud‑native architectures (GCP, AWS, or Azure)