Jobs in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

One of the biggest untapped markets in fintech is personal financial advice. It’s also one of the toughest domains to crack. If you’re looking to build a successful career and make a significant impact in the lives of many South Africans, then this is the opportunity you’ve been searching for.

LifeCheq is a personal finance fintech business operating across South Africa. Our unique approach to financial advice and our market-leading advice platform have redefined the category. We’re looking to scale our operations significantly in an exciting new chapter.

Our technology touches consumers, financial advisors, and large enterprise institutions. The vision for our advice platform is to become one of the most transformative technology platforms in South Africa’s financial services landscape. In this role, you will play a key part in this journey.

We primarily use Clojure for our backend, with a mix of ClojureScript and TypeScript for our frontends. We utilize modern frontend technologies including React, Storybook.js, Webpack, Apollo, and NextJS.

Our business is funded by reputable institutional investors including Futuregrowth and African Rainbow Capital.

• Build our systems, focusing on creating beautiful, modular, and scalable frontends by converting Figma high-fidelity UIs into React Components.
• Contribute to testing, integration, and deployment processes;
• Assist in architectural and technological decision-making;
• Coach and mentor junior team members;
• Participate in hiring processes within the team;
• Attend client demos and sales presentations alongside business development staff as required.

• Minimum of 4 years of professional software development experience, including at least 2 years using modern JS stacks like React, Svelte, VueJS, or Angular 2;
• Expertise in CSS and experience building pixel-perfect components/pages according to design specifications.

• Experience with
  • ReactJS, Storybook.js, TypeScript, or ClojureScript;
  • Frontend analytics and performance optimization;
  • Implementing testing strategies;
• Experience in developing and maintaining design systems;
• Willingness to learn ClojureScript;

You will work in a cross-functional agile squad alongside backend engineers, financial experts, and designers. Each squad has a clear focus on customer-related goals and outcomes, with autonomy in how to achieve them.

We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan, providing opportunities to accelerate your career and make a meaningful difference.

This is a full-time, remote position. Fluency in English and the ability to work core hours (10:00 to 16:00) for a GMT+2 time zone are required.