
Senior Full Stack Engineer
FYXER
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: South Africa
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Job Level
About the role
- Own features end-to-end, from concept through to production, including performance, reliability, and security
- Balance speed and quality, making pragmatic trade-offs to support both short-term delivery and long-term scalability
- Strengthen core user journeys by improving reliability, reducing friction, and supporting growth
- Contribute to system design across APIs, event-driven architecture, and shared services
- Build scalable, reusable backend services and clean integration layers
- Maintain high engineering standards through testing, code quality, and thoughtful reviews
- Mentor and support other engineers, helping unblock delivery and share context
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product and design to deliver meaningful outcomes
- Work autonomously while communicating clearly and surfacing risks early
Requirements
- You’re an experienced full stack engineer (typically 4–7+ years) who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments.
- Take ownership and deliver meaningful outcomes end-to-end
- Contribute thoughtfully to technical decisions and trade-offs
- Balance delivery speed with system reliability and maintainability
- Are curious, pragmatic, and comfortable learning new domains
- Collaborate effectively in remote, cross-functional teams
- Building and shipping full stack applications in production
- Backend development (ideally Node.js / TypeScript or similar)
- Frontend development using modern frameworks (e.g. React)
- Designing and maintaining APIs and integration layers
- Working with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, serverless, containers)
- Event-driven systems (queues, background jobs, webhooks)
- Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, CI/CD tooling)
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Generous paid time off aligned to your location
- Remote-first working with flexible hours
- Annual learning & development budget + dedicated learning days
- Regular team meetups and virtual socials
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
full stack developmentbackend developmentNode.jsTypeScriptfrontend developmentReactAPI designcloud infrastructureAWSinfrastructure as code
Soft Skills
ownershipcollaborationcommunicationmentorshippragmatismcuriosityproblem-solvingautonomycontext sharingtrade-off analysis