Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack)

About the role

Capitec is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack), based in Stellenbosch. Capitec Insurance is making a significant move into South Africa's insurance market, with 23 million banking clients and a three-year growth plan that demands technology built to scale. We're committed to making life cover more affordable, transparent and simple - with a fully digital application that takes less than 10 minutes and no medical tests. Every line of code you write is part of keeping that promise.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end system design across the full application stack
• Make architectural decisions that span front-end and back-end
• Mentor engineers on full stack practices and holistic technical thinking
• Drive technical standards across the team
• Design complete application architectures from the ground up
• Optimise performance across the entire stack
• Integrate complex systems across our insurance platform
• Balance front-end UX with back-end performance - so clients feel the quality of what you build
• Our tech stack
• Back-end
• C# and .NET Core
• AWS - where we build and run at scale
• PostgreSQL - our primary data store
• Kafka - event-driven architecture and messaging or similar
• Front-end
• React or Angular or Vue
• TypeScript
• HTML, CSS and responsive UI design
• Engineering practice
• RESTful API design and integration
• Microservice and event-driven architectures
• Containerisation and deployment using Kubernetes
• CI/CD pipelines and version control

Requirements

• Experience
• 6+ years of proven full stack software development experience, delivering end-to-end solutions in production
• Strong back-end capability in C#/.NET Core
• Solid front-end experience with React or Vue and TypeScript
• Experience designing scalable systems in AWS environments
• A track record of leading technical decisions across the full stack - not just executing them
• Experience working in regulated or financial services environments is a strong advantage
• The ability to communicate technical decisions clearly to engineers, architects and business stakeholders
• A genuine interest in growing the engineers around you
• Education
• Minimum: Grade 12 National Certificate
• Preferred: A relevant tertiary qualification in information technology
• Knowledge
• You can apply expert-level knowledge and develop others' understanding across:
• IT systems development processes (SDLC) and agile delivery
• Advanced programming concepts and design patterns
• Advanced algorithms and data structures
• Front-end architecture and component design
• Database systems and query optimisation (SQL and NoSQL)
• RESTful API design and integration
• Cloud computing platforms and services (AWS)
• Advanced microservice and event-driven architectures
• Deployment using Kubernetes and containerisation
• Testing practices - unit, integration and end-to-end