Freelance Lead Software Engineer

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

💵 R7.8k - R10.4k / day

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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No Sweat → Work

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2015

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Marketing • Logistics • Consulting

No Sweat → Work is a platform based in South Africa that connects employers with freelance and full-time talent in fields such as advertising, design, marketing, media, and public relations. Unlike traditional recruitment agencies, No Sweat simplifies the hiring process by enabling direct connections between clients and job seekers, managing various administrative tasks like invoicing and payments. With over 10,000 available candidates and a robust track record of successful placements, No Sweat → Work aims to efficiently match talent with project requirements.

📋 Description

• Build and release complete features for the campaign-management platform • Own architecture decisions and document system design • Use AI coding tools, critically review their output and improve existing code • Develop production-ready LLM features with validation, evaluation and cost controls • Build CRM, payment, outreach and invoicing integrations • Implement monitoring, alerting and production-support processes • Work with the Product Lead to break down requirements, identify dependencies and set delivery plans • Maintain automated tests, manageable pull requests and infrastructure as code • Recommend when additional engineering capacity is needed and support technical collaboration • Collaborate with the Product Lead, Full Stack Engineer, Data Science Lead and platform users • Develop the platform into a reliable product supporting campaign teams, creators and clients from shortlisting and outreach through reporting and payments

🎯 Requirements

• Proven lead-level experience building and scaling a production product to 10,000+ users, with personal responsibility for architecture decisions • Strong hands-on full-stack engineering capability • Experience shipping LLM features into production, including structured outputs, validation, evaluation and managing usage costs • Daily practical experience with AI coding tools and the ability to assess, debug and refactor generated code • Experience with authentication, client data isolation, payment integrations and privacy requirements • Confidence owning deployments, diagnosing production problems and improving reliability • Clear communication with technical and non-technical colleagues • Judgement to challenge assumptions, identify risks and explain what can realistically be delivered • Experience with Python, FastAPI, SQLModel, Next.js, TypeScript, Google Cloud Run, Cloud SQL/PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Terraform and GitHub Actions is advantageous; transferable architecture and product-delivery experience considered • Additional advantageous experience: multimodal AI, third-party data ingestion, email deliverability, SOC 2 readiness and creator-economy experience • Must be based in South Africa and able to provide agreed overlap with the UK team • Must provide January availability, existing commitments and proposed weekly capacity • Must state expected day rate within the indicative range • Must clearly distinguish personally delivered work from wider team work

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