MSA Outsourcing Solutions

Senior Product Engineer

MSA Outsourcing Solutions  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  10 days ago
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Job Description

MSA Outsourcing Solutions - UK is seeking an experienced engineer who will join one of our UK clients — someone who can sit with a business stakeholder, understand a vague problem, ask the right questions, and translate it into a working solution. You'll be the bridge between business and engineering: refining requirements, shaping scope, making sensible technical trade-offs, and shipping the result. You should be equally comfortable in a stakeholder conversation and a code review.

Requirements

  • Work directly with business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into clear specs and shipped features
  • Own features end-to-end — from ambiguous problem statement, through scoping, to production
  • Build and maintain a React frontend and Supabase backend
  • Push back constructively when requirements don't make sense, and propose better alternatives
  • Make sensible architecture and technical decisions, with a bias toward simplicity and shipping
  • Mentor and review work from other engineers when needed
  • Help us evolve the product, not just maintain it
  • 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience, including a meaningful stretch as a founding engineer, tech lead, or one of the first hires at a small startup
  • Strong React with TypeScript and modern patterns
  • Demonstrable experience with Supabase, or Postgres plus equivalent BaaS (Firebase, Hasura) that you'd transfer quickly
  • A portfolio of products you've shipped — ideally with stories about features where you defined the problem yourself, not just the solution
  • Excellent written and spoken English — you'll be in stakeholder conversations regularly
  • Comfortable working with non-technical people: translating jargon, asking clarifying questions, sketching solutions on whiteboards (or Miro)
  • Self-directed and able to operate with significant autonomy

Strongly Preferred:

  • Experience running customer interviews, product discovery sessions, or stakeholder workshops
  • Prior experience as a solo or near-solo engineer on a real product with users
  • A track record of saying "we shouldn't build that" with a sound reason — and being right
  • Public writing, talks, or open-source contributions — anything showing thought leadership
  • Next.js, Tailwind, Supabase Edge Functions
  • Background in [INSERT YOUR DOMAIN — e.g., logistics, fintech, B2B SaaS]
  • Formal product management or BA experience earlier in career
MSA Outsourcing Solutions

About MSA Outsourcing Solutions

Lower your staffing costs, not your dreams!

If you’re a growing business, you’re likely bearing the brunt of the staffing shortages. You’re trapped in a quandary: you can’t afford to match the exorbitant salary demands of office workers, but you need to hire to operate and expand.

We believe that South Africa is the ideal place to hire virtual employees due to the combination of three factors: a high unemployment rate, high tertiary education levels, and superior native spoken and written English communication skills.

However, for virtual remote staffing to be worthwhile, and sustainable, you need on-the-ground management and robust oversight. Without that, your remote staff ends up being more headache than they’re worth. That’s why we’re not a broker or recruitment company outsourcing solution. We’re your complete remote back office, where employees become integral, reliable members of your team, helping you carry out your operational needs at the highest level.

Our unique value is built on two core pillars:

● Who we hire. We don’t match you up with existing agents. Instead, we recruit exclusively for your job, ensuring your employees have the ideal skills and experience.

We use a rigorous multi-step screening and filtering process that includes in-person interviews, skills tests, and aptitude assessments. And, once

we’ve shortlisted the top candidates, you hold interviews.

You always have the final say in who joins your team.

How we manage.

We’re not only dedicated to recruiting the top talent for your needs. We’re just as dedicated to strong oversight to ensure they’re meeting targets and achieving their goals.

All our staff work from our central office, under the keen supervision of our astute management team that ensures they’re hitting their KPIs at the standards you require.

You get the flexibility to grow your business as fast as you need, without any of the exorbitant payroll costs & management hassles that you’d encounter if you hired locally.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
msaos.com
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