Black Pen Recruitment

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Fintech/Payments)

Black Pen Recruitment  •  Cape Town, ZA (Hybrid)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

Our client is a technology company solving payments problems for businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. They provide a suite of products to help businesses accept payments online and offline, manage their operations, and grow their business. Our client is driven by a commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

As a senior full-stack engineer, you take responsibility for delivering and supporting robust back-end and front-end applications that expose our client’s data and functionality to internal and external users. Applications handling financial information need to be able to handle large data sets in a performant manner, while being highly accurate and reliable. You’ll work with a team of talented engineers to design and build systems that support some of South Africa’s best known brands.

Job Type: Full Time/Permanent

Location: South Africa

Workplace: Hybrid

Requirements

  • You have extensive programming experience in at least one language such as Javascript, Typescript, Java, C++, C#, Python or another major language
  • 8 years of experience as a full stack engineer.
  • Working on large, distributed systems at scale
  • Understanding and working with SQL databases
  • Writing solid unit testing and integration tests
  • You communicate clearly and are able to collaborate in a remote environment
  • Taking ownership of work assigned to you
  • You have a passion for building products to help African businesses

Technology stack:

Our technology stack includes the following:

  • Typescript and Javascript
  • Node.js
  • Frameworks: Express.js, Sails.js and Nest.js
  • Frontend frameworks: React, Angular and Vue
  • Redis
  • MySQL and MongoDB
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS

Responsibilities

  • Architect and Develop: Design and implement robust solutions for our platform, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
  • Product Innovation: Design and development of technical solutions to deliver on our product vision.
  • Technical Problem Solving: Tackle complex technical challenges, providing innovative solutions to enhance system performance and reliability.
  • System Integration: Collaborate on the refinement of the platform’s architecture, focusing on optimization and seamless integration to other systems.
  • Code Review and Testing: Review specifications and code submissions and conduct thorough testing to maintain code quality.
  • System support: Collaborate with other teams, both inside and outside engineering, to assist merchants and customers where necessary.
Black Pen Recruitment

About Black Pen Recruitment

Black Pen Recruitment is the leading recruitment agency in fintech and cryptocurrency across Africa. From our headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa, we've been at the forefront of specialised recruitment since 2012, carving out a distinct niche in the landscape of financial technology. Our success story is rooted in our ability to identify top-tier talent and match them with leading companies in the industry. With over 180 clients worldwide and over 120,000 candidates in our database, we've built partnerships with Startups, Scale-ups, SMEs, and Corporates, driving growth and innovation every step of the way. We have also expanded our reach into key sectors including e-Commerce, Digital Banking, SaaS, Tech, and Travel/Tourism.

Black Pen Recruitment stands as a dedicated partner in growing your team, with over a decade of experience. Driven by a vision to bridge the gap between talent and opportunity in the growing fintech and cryptocurrency sectors, we've built a formidable team of internationally trained recruiters who share a passion for excellence and dedication. With a strategic presence in Malta, we have established a global footprint, nurturing relationships with clients worldwide. Our journey has been defined by navigating the frontier of finance and technology, driving excellence in every partnership we forge.

Industry
HR & Recruiting
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Cape Town, ZA
Year Founded
2012
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