Job title: Senior Full Stack Engineer – Python
Job type: Permanent
Emp type: Full-time
Industry: Technology
Functional Expertise: Technology
Skills: python TypeScript AWS
Salary type: Annual
Salary from: ZAR 1,200,000.00
Salary to: ZAR 1,200,000.00
Location: South Africa
Job published: 03-10-2025
Job ID: 36188

Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY THAT AWAITS YOU

We've partnered with global payments house in fintech who currently scaling across their product engineering team. The current need is for a seasoned Full Stack Engineer to build customer-facing payment experiences across Africa.

This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, loves solving complex problems, and wants to work on systems that process millions of transactions.

TECH STACK:

  • Languages: Python and TypeScript 
  • Infrastructure: AWS (primarily Lambda, API Gateway, S3 and Serverless)
  • Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, Cypress
  • CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines
  • Monitoring: Grafana / Sentry / Datadog

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Successfully build new features, and enhance existing Commerce features
  • Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team across our full Commerce product portfolio
  • Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payment processing to our backend
  • Effective troubleshooting and debugging of Commerce issues
  • Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis

OUR REQUIRED EXPERTISE

Technical Expertise:

  • 7+ years of experience in cloud-based backend engineering
  • Strong experience with Python and Typescript
  • AWS experience (primarily Lambda, API Gateway and Serverless)
  • Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB)
  • Bonus - Experience with Payments

Problem-Solving & Ownership:

  • Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new features
  • Able to iteratively maintain and evolve existing features to meet best practices and modern standards 
  • Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment

Collaboration & Communication:

  • Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills in English
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners

Working Model: Remote 

For more roles, please have a look at our website (www.60degrees.com). or follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/10287263/)