Front-End Leaning Full Stack Engineer
This role is for a front-end leaning full-stack developer to build and maintain SaaS product features using C# .NET Core, Azure, and React/Ionic. The developer will work in a collaborative, office-based environment in Johannesburg to help scale the platform.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent, or exceptional problem-solving ability
- 2-4 years of development experience
- Proven problem-solving mindset
- Experience with C# and .NET
- Familiarity with relational databases such as SQL Server
- Customer-focused attitude
- Growth mindset and eagerness to learn
Nice to have
- React or Angular exposure
- API development and integration experience
- Unit testing knowledge (xUnit, NUnit, or similar)
- Azure or cloud platform familiarity
- B2B SaaS environment experience
- Startup experience
Full description
Overview
Full-Stack DeveloperJohannesburg
A fast-growing scale-up SaaS company has a new opening in their team for a talented Software Developer. This individual will help build, improve and support its expanding product and user base.
Your focus will be on frontend development while gaining valuable backend experience as well supporting their product. You'll work closely with their Product/Design and development team to reduce technical debt, implement robust testing practices and build incredible experiences helping them scale from 5,000 to 10,000 users over the next 18 months.
By joining this team, you'll get exposure to the whole business across Sales, Marketing, Success, Product and Tech, with significant opportunities for growth and skill development.
This team enjoys working together. While they offer some flexibility they have more in-office days than work from home days and therefore, this role would best suit someone who enjoys working with their team more than not.
Tech Stack
- Backend: C# .NET Core, Entity Framework, Azure SQL Server
- Frontend: React, Ionic/Angular (mobile)
- Infrastructure: Azure, Azure DevOps, CI/CD
- Tools: GIT, Jira
The Role
As an intermediate developer in a small, fast-growing business, you'll have the unique opportunity to work directly with the leadership team while developing your skills across the full technology stack.
Primary Responsibilities
- Feature implementation - work with our UI/UX designer to build and improve user-facing features
- Onboarding improvements - enhance user experience and conversion flows
- Cross-functional collaboration - work with product team on feature refinement
- Frontend bug fixes - React and Ionic/Angular maintenance
Secondary Responsibilities
- Backend development - build and maintain our C#/.NET Core APIs and services
- Technical debt reduction - refactor existing code, improve architecture
- Unit testing implementation - establish and expand our testing practices
- System optimization - improve performance and scalability
- Database work - Azure SQL queries, optimization, data integrity
- Investigate user issues, reproduce bugs, provide clear solutions
Essential (not negotiable)
- BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent, or exceptional problem-solving ability
- 2-4 years of development experience
- Proven problem-solving mindset with both high-level and detail-oriented thinking
- Experience with C# and .NET (or a strong desire to learn)
- Familiarity with relational databases such as SQL Server