Job Description

Working Practices: Hybrid | Mondays and Thursday in office and remaining days remote

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 07H00 - 15H30 SAST

Reports to: Manager – Data, Cloud and AI Engineering

Full Stack Developer will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable web applications using Node.js on the backend and JavaScript front end frameworks such as React or Svelte You will collaborate closely with product, design, and platform teams to deliver high quality, user focused solutions. The role involves API design, frontend architecture, performance optimisation, and code quality ownership. You should have strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills, experience with modern frameworks, cloud-native development, and CI/CD practices. The ideal candidate is pragmatic, proactive, and comfortable working across the full stack in an agile environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate within a wider cross region development team of engineers

• Design, build, deploy and maintain user facing applications within the OES delivery portfolio

• Understand and onboard on to an established application code base

• Bring systems thinking to the development process

• Assist in maintaining and optimising solution performance and scalability

• Develop proof of concepts or prototypes

• Ensure technical implementation deliverables meet best industry standards

• Contribute to the evolution applications engineering and technology within OES

• Maintain and contribute to technical documentation of applications

• Assist with the setup, deploy and maintenance of applications and services for OES partners domestically and internationally

Requirements

• You should have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, and minimum 4-5 years’ experience

• Demonstrable commercial experience in the following technologies:

• Proficiency JavaScript and Typescript

• NodeJS back ends.

• REST APIs and WebSocket

• JavaScript front end frameworks and libraries (React, Svelte or similar)

• HTML5, Web components, CSS

• REST API development and consumption

• Unit testing

Demonstrable commercial experience in concepts such as:

• Git source control best practices

• System design and thinking

• Authentication and Web security

• Database best practices

• DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• CI/CD (Jenkins, CodeDeploy, Git hub actions or similar)

Demonstrable commercial experience in Cloud-native development (preferably AWS)

• S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, Cloudwatch

• Serverless paradigm and technologies

• Containerization

• Effective problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail.

Beneficial to have but not required:

• Experience with Python

• Exposure to AI concepts and such as LLMs and RAG

• Education industry technology standards such as LTI

• AWS certification

Benefits

These are some of the perks you can expect when you join the team:

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Medical allowance

• Commute allowance

• Flexible work for genuine career-life fit

• A healthy and supportive company culture

• Generous annual leave

• Paid maternity and paternity benefits

• Study leave

• Professional development and mentoring

• Construct Culture Club events

• Company funded lunch and drinks every 8 weeks

*Policy T&Cs apply for certain benefits

Develop: 

• In an agile environment within a high performing close-knit team

• With modern hardware and directly on cloud services

• Using modern cloud technologies