Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Backend-Leaning

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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RecruitSA

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2024

🎯 Recruiter

🤝 B2B

👥 HR Tech

Recruitment • B2B • HR Tech

RecruitSA is a recruitment agency that specializes in connecting skilled professionals from South Africa with businesses in the UK. They streamline the hiring process, allowing companies to access exceptional talent for remote work or relocation. With an emphasis on quality, RecruitSA employs rigorous screening and a two-stage interview process to ensure candidates not only meet qualifications but also fit culturally within organizations. They also offer immigration support through strategic partnerships, making the transition seamless for new hires.

📋 Description

• Own the platform’s technical direction, architecture, data model, security, testing, and code review • Approve everything that ships, while the product founder signs off on visual changes • Set up the test framework using Vitest, Playwright, and GitHub Actions as a merge gate • Build and maintain foundations including Postgres with row-level security, authentication, Stripe billing, background jobs, transactional email, and third-party integrations • Lead the launch of the new platform and migrate 60 customers from GoHighLevel without losing data • Run a two-week parallel migration period • Own production error tracking, logging, alerts, incident response, performance, and cost control • Document the platform and help hire and lead the next engineer • In the first 90 days, learn the code and build plan, ship a small fix, review everything that ships, own security and data protection, lead the launch, and migrate customers

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years as a professional software engineer • 2+ years building and running a multi-tenant SaaS product in production • Strong TypeScript, React 19, and Next.js App Router skills, including Server Components, Server Actions, streaming, and caching in Next.js 15/16 • Strong Postgres skills beyond the ORM, including schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, and row-level security • Production Stripe experience with subscriptions, webhooks, idempotency, and usage- or credit-based billing • Experience with background jobs and queues such as Inngest, Trigger.dev, or BullMQ • Experience with automated testing as a release gate, CI, and Vercel preview deployments • Production ownership using Sentry or similar • Daily, disciplined use of agentic AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex • Ability to make small PRs, write tests before merging, and read the diff • Experience reviewing others’ code as the gate to production • Experience mentoring less experienced builders • Ability to work as the only engineer and pick up work independently • Ability to explain technical risk in plain English with options and a recommendation • Nice to have: LLM APIs such as Anthropic or OpenAI, customer and data migrations, large external datasets, third-party data APIs, multi-tenant security fundamentals, OWASP Top 10, secrets, audit logging, UK GDPR, GoHighLevel, Resend, MapLibre, SEO, and Core Web Vitals

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Full-time employment • UK hours • Opportunity to be the company’s first engineer and technical lead • Opportunity to guide and mentor the product founder • Opportunity to help hire and lead the next engineer

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