Full Stack Developer

Online Education Services (OES)

Application Developer responsible for developing and maintaining technology solutions for Online Education Services. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovative solutions in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 6/19/2026contractCape Town • 🇿🇦 South AfricaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudJavaScriptJenkinsjQueryNode.jsPHPReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate with cross-functional teams – Work closely with Developers, Testers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts to refine product requirements and drive feature development.
Assist with architecture and design of scalable solutions – Assist in shaping low-level solution designs with the Solution Architect or Solution Lead, ensuring robust and maintainable implementations.
Develop high-performance applications – Design, build, and enhance features for our custom-built platform using React (frontend), Node.js (backend), and AWS services.
Optimize and scale – Continuously improve system performance, scalability, and reliability by refactoring code, improving API efficiency, and enhancing cloud infrastructure.
Build and integrate APIs – Develop and maintain APIs to enable seamless integrations between our custom platform, Salesforce, data warehouses, and other critical systems.
Prototype and validate ideas – Create proof-of-concepts (PoCs) to evaluate potential feature implementations and new technologies.
Ensure cloud-native best practices – Leverage AWS services for serverless computing, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code to drive efficient deployments.
Support business expansion – Assist in setting up and operating new partner systems both domestically and internationally.
Enhance DevOps and automation – Work with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and automated testing to streamline deployment and operations.
Champion technical excellence – Conduct regular reviews to simplify and streamline the platform, implementing improvements based on best practices.
Mentor and guide – Support junior developers, conduct code reviews, and contribute to a strong engineering culture.
Drive innovation – Stay ahead of industry trends, advocate for modern technologies, and help evolve our technology stack.

Requirements

What you’ll need

To apply you must have 5-6+ years’ experience in:
ReactJS or similar Front end JavaScript framework experience
NodeJS experience
AWS (or similar cloud architecture) development experience in serverless solutions
Developing and consuming API’s
You should have knowledge in:
JS serverless libraries (ServerlessJS or similar)
HTM5, CSS3 and native JavaScript (jQuery/JqueryUI)
Coding patterns (MVC, MVVM etc)
Version control tools (e.g. Git)
CI/CD (Jenkins or similar)
CMS/LMS experience
It would be beneficial to have:
Craft CMS (Or other)
Version control tools (e.g. Git)
Knowledge of TDD (Test driven development) & Agile Development process
(Jira)
Understanding about debugging and problem-solving application issues
PHP Development
LTI development experience
AWS Certification

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

ReactJSNodeJSAWSAPI developmentHTML5CSS3JavaScriptServerlessJSCI/CDPHP

Soft Skills

collaborationmentoringinnovationproblem-solvingtechnical excellence

Certifications

AWS Certification