Senior Full Stack Engineer

Talent Safari

Senior full-stack engineer responsible for delivering robust back-end and front-end applications at Paystack. Collaborating with talented engineers to support leading South African brands.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeCape Town • 🇿🇦 South AfricaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsJavaJavaScriptPythonSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As a senior full-stack engineer, you take responsibility for delivering and supporting robust back-end and front-end applications that expose our 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.
Architect and Developer: 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have extensive programming experience in at least one language, such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, C#, Python, or another major language
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 the work assigned to you
You have a passion for building products to help African businesses

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaScriptTypeScriptJavaC++C#PythonSQLunit testingintegration testingsystem architecture

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationownershipproblem solvinginnovationteamworkadaptabilityattention to detailresponsibilitycreativity