Online jobs in South Africa

The Kandua Company helps small service businesses grow. We connect them to new customers and we take the sweat out of business management with easy to use tech tools. Kandua.com is South Africa’s #1 online marketplace for home services. Every month, over 40 000 vetted home service pros have access to around R50 million worth of work opportunities from individual customers, and access to business customers through Kandua’s partnerships with leaders in insurance and retail.

The Kandua for Pros app puts a head office in the palm of every pro’s hand: send professional quotes and invoices, accept card and online payments, keep track of customer communication, and get visibility of business performance, all from a mobile phone, and all safely stored in the cloud. Our mission is to use tech to shorten the distance between having a skill and making a living from it: helping the people who help us every day.

We’re looking for a full-stack engineer and problem solver to join us.

When we say Full-Stack, we mean multidimensional fullness. Not only would you carve across all facets of our system, but your objective would always be to solve an actual problem.

As a Full-Stack Engineer at Kandua, you will play a critical role in developing our platform. Your focus will be on both front-end and back-end systems, ensuring seamless user experiences, robust APIs, and scalable infrastructure. This is an opportunity to work closely with a passionate team to create real-world solutions that impact thousands of users daily.

You'll be the mastermind crafting innovative solutions that will dazzle our users and take our platform to new heights.

• Join forces with our cross-functional teams to dream up, design, and launch mind-blowing features.
• Weave your magic with clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Design and develop applications for warp speed and scalability like never before.
• Stay ahead of the curve with the latest tech trends and be the trendsetter in the industry.

If you're a full-stack wizard with a passion for creating cutting-edge solutions, then Kandua is the place for you! Join us in shaking up the way people connect with service providers and be a true hero. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, starts here!

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack applications.
• Collaborate closely with product teams to understand customer needs and translate them into technical requirements.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code with a focus on high performance and scalability.
• Ensure the stability and security of applications by conducting code reviews, performance testing, and implementing best practices.
• Maintain cloud infrastructure and contribute to DevOps processes.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, and continuously seek to improve Kandua’s systems and processes.

• 3+ years of experience as a Full-Stack Engineer or similar role.
• Strong understanding of modern front-end technologies and frameworks.
• Solid experience with back-end development and creating scalable APIs.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and DevOps practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and eagerness to learn.

• Front-End: React.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+).
• Back-End: Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs.
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis.
• Infrastructure: Docker, Firebase, Cloud Run, GCP.
• CI/CD & Version Control: Git, GitHub.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexibility with hybrid or remote work.
• A collaborative and inclusive company culture.
• Opportunity to grow with a fast-scaling tech company.
• Work on meaningful projects that directly impact customers.