The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior, hands‑on DevSecOps Engineer with strong experience operating and securing cloud‑native production environments in regulated settings.

They have deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code, and are comfortable owning production reliability, security monitoring, incident response and audit readiness (e.g. SOC2, PCI‑DSS). They favour automation over manual processes and take a pragmatic, security‑first approach to building and running scalable platforms.

This individual works well across engineering teams, communicates clearly in a distributed environment, and is confident mentoring others on secure infrastructure and DevSecOps best practices.

The Role

The DevSecOps Engineer's objective is to integrate security controls and maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure. You will ensure our platform remains secure, scalable, and compliant with relevant security standards (including SOC2 and PCI-DSS) by focusing on the running, securing, and monitoring of services in production.

Key Objectives:

• Production Excellence: Operate production environments with a "security-first" mindset, monitoring both availability and potential threats.
• Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain secure IaC to manage platform scaling and consistency.
• Continuous Compliance: Ensure the success of security audits through automated compliance checks and rigorous evidence collection.
• Culture & Collaboration: Bridge the gap between development, security, and operations to foster a robust DevSecOps culture within the wider Engineering department.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management: Manage core AWS services (EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda) with a focus on encryption, least-privilege access, and service reliability.
• Monitoring & Incident Response: Develop and refine strategies for monitoring system health and security events using tools like OpenSearch, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Compliance & Auditing: Ensure all AWS environments meet relevant security standards. Implement and monitor "Policy as Code" using Terraform to automate audit-readiness.
• Deployment & Security Automation: Maintain configurations for automation tools, secure deployments, and vulnerability scans. Work with standardized SDLC tools to ensure consistent delivery to production.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with the teams and Software Engineers to ensure application deployments are successful, working as intended, and compliant with security standards.
• Technical Mentorship: Provide leadership and guidance on secure infrastructure practices to other Software Engineers across the organization.
• This position involves on-call responsibilities: Responding to operational incidents when necessary. We aim to minimize unnecessary paging and build fault-tolerant systems that reduce operational load.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• 5 years+ in a DevSecOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering role, preferably in fintech or a highly regulated environment.
• Deep expertise in AWS (specifically IAM, EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, and EC2).
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, and security tools (e.g., WAF, KMS, Shield).
• Extensive experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS), including administration and deployment via Helm.
• Proficiency in Terraform for managing complex cloud environments.
• Experience securing and tuning PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MariaDB.
• Experience with GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or Atlantis.
• Proficiency in Python or Bash for automation tasks.

Personality Attributes

• Ability to thrive under the pressure of audit deadlines and production incidents.
• A strong preference for automated solutions over manual intervention.
• Strong communication skills for working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.

About this job

Teamwork plays an integral role in the success of our tech strategy.  In JUMO, our teams have exposure to a broad range of the best new technology, and are trusted with the autonomy and flexibility to explore, innovate and find creative solutions to interesting challenges.  With this, everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our mission of enabling equal access to finance opportunities.  We have chosen our tech stack carefully and believe in using the best tools out there.

Our software engineering team is responsible for building our market-leading banking as a service platform & products, enabling real-time access to funds at the lowest possible operating cost.  When integrated into JUMO’s platform, it enables our partners to offer loans, savings and a wide range of financial choices to a new group of customers.

As a Junior Software Engineer, you will be accountable for solving complex technical problems with solutions that are scalable, testable, maintainable, and efficient, whilst continuing to improve our engineering practices. This position reports to a Tech Lead.

You will

• You will deliver across the SDLC to build a highly scalable distributed system
• Assist in defining the team's roadmap in line with the company and technology vision.
• Architect services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.

• Design, implement, test, deploy, and support our products and services.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback.  
• Guide the team to consistently write production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers and accounts for edge cases and errors.
• Anticipate and communicate blockers, delays and cost ballooning within their team’s projects, before they require escalation.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and drive best practices and engineering excellence.

You will need

• 1 - 2 years’ of experience with Kotlin / Java / Scala, and a cloud-based infrastructure, ideally AWS. Python experience will be an added advantage.
• Experience designing, developing and testing software.
• Some experience with the design and development of high-volume/low-latency services.
• Business and operational awareness.
• Good communication skills & EQ – able to work in a diverse team.

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too.

You will love

• Work in an agile cross-functional team, delivering quality code you can be proud of.
• Work with a modern but pragmatic Tech Stack (i.e. Kotlin + Spring Boot for Backend, TypeScript + React for Web and Mobile, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, Datadog, GitHub Actions + ArgoCD for CI/CD, AWS), building a highly scalable distributed system
• Ensure consistency and accuracy when required.
• Led and supported by an experienced, hands-on Tech Lead.
• Collaborating with smart, engaging people.
• Working for impact.
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support.
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges.
• Flexible work practices enabling your best delivery.
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead.

Remote First

Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. We operate a remote-first approach that enables us with the flexibility to work and live where we are most productive. We work between the UTC and UTC+3 time zones and currently have team members based in South Africa, Portugal and Kenya.

Diversity and Inclusion

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity strengthens our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where all individuals can be authentic, collaborate, and thrive.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a highly competent Database Engineer for both on-prem and AWS Cloud. The successful candidate has considerable hands-on experience managing multi-node, multi-TB, high-load clusters, and has worked in high-pressure environments interacting with Production, Development and Infrastructure teams to identify, chaperone and resolve issues in development and production. A deep understanding of and extensive work experience with Galera or Percona Cluster on MySQL and/or MariaDB is key. Relevant experience with industry security standards (PCI DSS, PCI 3DS) is a big plus.

The Role

As a MySQL Database Engineer at Entersekt, you will be part of a company that provides 24/7 support for mission-critical database systems for financial authentication solutions in the market. You will be responsible for performing daily database administration, database design and troubleshooting, replication, and performance tuning tasks for multiple MariaDB and MySQL Clusters in production and development.

Responsibilities

Database management:

• Design, implement, and maintain MySQL/MariaDB database clusters.
• Ensure the availability and performance of databases.
• Perform regular database capacity planning and ensure proper storage management.
• Replication between databases for high availability.

Database security:

• Implement and maintain database security measures to protect sensitive data.
• Manage user access and permissions.
• Implement and maintain auditing functions.

Backup and recovery:

• Develop and implement backup/recovery strategies.
• Regularly test and verify backups to ensure data integrity.
• Plan and execute database recovery procedures in case of failures.

Performance tuning:

• Monitor and optimize database performance.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with team to improve query performance.
• Tune database and platform configurations to utilize hardware capacity.

Database upgrades and patching:

• Plan and execute database upgrades.
• Determine short and long-term upgrade paths and strategies.
• Apply patches and updates to ensure database security and stability.

Troubleshooting:

• Diagnose and resolve database-related issues.
• Provide support to development teams in debugging database-related problems.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred, but not required.
• Proven 3+ years’ experience as a Galera or Percona cluster Database Administrator in a production environment.
• Deep understanding of MySQL database architecture, administration, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with Galera or Percona Cluster.
• Experience with data migration, backup, restore and recovery, resolving performance issues, blocking and deadlocks.
• Experience in implementing and monitoring MySQL Cluster to provide high availability for mission critical events, database mirroring, replication, and log shipping.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Perl for automation tasks.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of one or more UNIX-like operating systems (server-side).
• Experience with database security, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
• Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git, for managing database configurations and scripts.
• Exposure to the following would be advantageous:
  • Experience in the FinTech or financial services industry.
  • Experience from PCI DSS/PCI 3DS certification processes.
  • Familiarity with other cloud database technologies such as Aurora DB and Global Databases.
  • The FreeBSD operating system.
  • ZFS

Personality Attributes

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex database issues.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Flexible, team player, goal-driven.
• Willing to take ownership of and proactively seek to improve on existing systems.
• Adaptability and self-motivation to excel in a mobile/remote-first team and company, demonstrating the capability to thrive in a distributed work environment while maintaining high productivity and communication standards.

About this job

Teamwork plays an integral role in the success of our tech strategy.  In JUMO, our teams have exposure to a broad range of the best new technology, and are trusted with the autonomy and flexibility to explore, innovate and find creative solutions to interesting challenges.  With this, everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our mission of enabling equal access to finance opportunities.  We have chosen our tech stack carefully and believe in using the best tools out there.

Our software engineering team is responsible for building our market-leading banking as a service platform & products, enabling real-time access to funds at the lowest possible operating cost.  When integrated into JUMO’s platform, it enables our partners to offer loans, savings and a wide range of financial choices to a new group of customers.

As a Software Engineer, you will be accountable for solving complex technical problems with solutions that are scalable, testable, maintainable, and efficient, whilst continuing to improve our engineering practices. This position reports to a Tech Lead.

You will

• Deliver across the SDLC to build a highly scalable distributed system.
• Assist in defining the team's roadmap in line with the company and technology vision.
• Architect services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
• Design, implement, test, deploy, and support our products and services
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback.  Guide the team to consistently write production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers and accounts for edge cases and errors.
• Anticipate and communicate blockers, delays and cost ballooning within their team’s projects, before they require escalation.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and drive best practices and engineering excellence

You will need

• A Computer Science degree
• Experience with Kotlin / Java / Scala, and a cloud-based infrastructure, ideally AWS. Python experience will be an added advantage
• Experience designing, developing and testing software
• Extensive hands-on experience with the design and development of high-volume/low-latency services
• Business and operational awareness
• Good communication skills & EQ – able to work in a diverse team

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too.

You will love

• Work in an agile cross-functional team, delivering quality code you can be proud of
• Work with a modern but pragmatic Tech Stack (i.e. Kotlin + Spring Boot for Backend, TypeScript + React for Web and Mobile, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, Datadog, GitHub Actions + ArgoCD for CI/CD, AWS), building a highly scalable distributed system
• Develop as a mentor, helping your junior colleagues grow as professionals
• Ensure consistency and accuracy when required
• Led and supported by an experienced, hands-on Tech Lead
• Collaborating with smart, engaging people
• Working for impact
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges
• Flexible work practices enabling your best delivery
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead

Remote First

Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. We operate a remote-first approach that enables us with the flexibility to work and live where we are most productive.

We work between the UTC and UTC+3 time zones and currently have team members from South Africa, Portugal and Kenya.

Diversity and Inclusion

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity fortifies our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where individuals from all walks of life can collaborate, thrive, and express their authentic selves.

The Ideal Candidate

As part of our transformation journey toward quality automation, we are strengthening our Quality Engineering capabilities. We are looking for a pragmatic Quality Engineer who can take ownership of manual integration testing across multiple teams while also designing and evolving automated test coverage.

This role suits someone comfortable working hands-on across systems today, while actively driving automation maturity over time.

The Role

The Senior Quality Engineer: Automation & Integration Testing is responsible for ensuring high product quality across multiple teams, with a strong initial focus on manual integration testing between three development teams, alongside building and maintaining automated tests.

The role plays a critical part in validating cross-service workflows, identifying integration risks early, and progressively strengthening automation to support continuous integration and delivery. The engineer collaborates closely with development and product teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute manual integration testing across three development teams, validating cross service workflows, data flows, and end to end customer journeys.
• Design and execute risk-based test strategies, using manual and exploratory testing where automation is not yet feasible or effective.
• Define, build, and maintain automated integration and end to end tests, with a clear focus on gradually reducing manual effort through sustainable automation.
• Collaborate closely with developers to validate integration points, APIs, contracts, and system behaviour across environments.
• Build and maintain test infrastructure and utilities (test data, mocks/stubs, environment configuration) to support both manual and automated testing.
• Integrate automated tests into GitLab CI/CD pipelines, ensuring fast feedback, clear reporting, and reliable quality gates.
• Triage integration issues, automation failures, and product defects, providing clear diagnostics, root cause analysis, and high-quality defect reports.
• Continuously improve test coverage, automation stability, execution time, and maintainability as systems and team maturity evolve.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• 6+ years of experience in software quality engineering, including hands-on manual testing, integration testing, and automated regression execution.
• Strong experience designing and executing manual integration and exploratory tests across distributed systems.
• 3+ years of Java experience building and maintaining automated tests.
• Hands‑on experience with Karate for API and microservice testing, plus mobile automation for iOS/Android (e.g., Appium) and web automation (e.g. Playwright, Selenium).
• Experience with modern test automation frameworks and tools such as TestNG, JUnit5, Cucumber/Gherkin, and build systems like Maven.
• Strong CI/CD experience running automation in pipelines (GitLab pipelines/runners).
• Daily working knowledge of Git based repositories and modern SDLC practices.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Experience using AI assisted tools (e.g., GitLab Duo, Copilot, LLM based assistants) with strong validation of outputs.
• Strong 10101 analytical and problem-solving skills.

Personality Attributes

• Positive, professional attitude with excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Collaborative and supportive; effective working with cross functional teams.
• Self-starter, with strong ownership in an autonomous environment.
• High attention to detail and consistent adherence to defined processes.
• Comfortable working to deadlines in a fast-paced environment, both independently and as part of a team.

The Ideal Candidate

The Lead Software Engineer: Cloud Modernisation will play a key role in advancing Entersekt’s transition toward cloud-ready and cloud-native architectures across the company’s SaaS product suite. This role combines senior technical leadership with hands-on engineering delivery.

You are an experienced engineer who is comfortable working directly within complex production codebases while also shaping architectural direction and modernisation strategy. You bring a pragmatic mindset when working with legacy systems and understand how to balance performance, cost efficiency, operational reliability, and delivery timelines when introducing cloud-native patterns.

The successful candidate will guide the modernisation of existing systems by introducing scalable architecture patterns, automation, and operational improvements while partnering closely with product engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, security, compliance, and product management teams.

Initial focus for this role will be the modernisation of Entersekt’s 3DS product suite, with patterns, architectural approaches, and enablement efforts expected to scale across the broader SaaS platform over time.

The Role

This is a senior individual contributor role operating at Lead Engineer level. The role combines architectural leadership with hands-on engineering execution and is responsible for defining and delivering the modernisation roadmap for key product systems.

The Lead Software Engineer will assess previous generation (heritage) components, design target-state architecture, and implement modernisation improvements directly in product codebases. The role will introduce modern engineering practices and cloud-native patterns while establishing guardrails, reference implementations, and repeatable approaches that product teams can adopt.

The position plays an important role in enabling a scalable SaaS operating model by improving automation, observability, deployment consistency, and tenant lifecycle management. Through close collaboration with engineering and platform teams, the role will help accelerate cloud-native delivery while maintaining strong operational, security, and regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

Modernisation Strategy, Roadmap and Architecture

• Define modernisation roadmaps for product applications, including target-state architecture for services, infrastructure, and data flows.
• Assess legacy components to identify modernisation opportunities, technical debt, and pragmatic remediation paths.
• Determine appropriate modernisation approaches including refactoring, re-platforming, or re-architecting based on performance, cost, risk, and delivery considerations.
• Contribute architectural insight to the modernisation business case and support financial modelling related to infrastructure and platform decisions.

Engineering Delivery

• Implement modernisation changes directly within product codebases, including refactoring legacy components and decomposing monolithic architectures.
• Introduce cloud-native engineering patterns such as microservices, event-driven architecture, containerisation, and serverless services.
• Identify and implement performance, scalability, and reliability improvements using observability platforms, cloud metrics, and logging tools.
• Develop reference implementations and engineering patterns that enable teams to accelerate modernisation across products.
• Drive code-level implementation decisions and ensure successful delivery of modernisation outcomes across multiple engineering teams.

SaaS Platform and Operational Modernisation

• Improve the operational and platform capabilities that support Entersekt’s SaaS delivery model.
• Reduce reliance on manual operational processes and bespoke scripts by introducing automation across tenant lifecycle management.
• Design and implement repeatable processes for tenant provisioning, configuration, and environment management.
• Improve onboarding speed for new tenants through standardised workflows and environment templates.
• Establish tenant-aware observability by improving consistency of logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting across services.
• Contribute to multi-tenant architecture design, including tenant isolation and service tiering considerations.
• Improve deployment consistency through repeatable deployment patterns, automation, and safer release processes.

Engineering Standards and Governance

• Introduce practical engineering guardrails that support modern development practices including API-first design, event streaming, cloud-native storage, and container orchestration.
• Define and maintain architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for cloud-native development.
• Contribute to cloud governance initiatives and participate in architecture reviews that guide engineering teams through modernisation efforts.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Lead technical workshops, architecture discussions, and design reviews across product teams.
• Support engineering teams in translating modernisation objectives into practical implementation changes.
• Partner closely with DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Product teams to ensure modernisation initiatives align with operational and regulatory requirements.
• Build trust with engineering teams by introducing modern practices through collaborative design and working reference implementations.

Team Development

• As the modernisation programme evolves, contribute to shaping a small, specialised engineering capability that supports broader platform modernisation initiatives.
• Maintain a strong hands-on focus while helping teams adopt new patterns and technologies.

Success Measures (First 12 Months)

Success in this role will be measured by the ability to deliver meaningful modernisation outcomes across Entersekt’s SaaS platform while establishing scalable engineering patterns that enable teams to accelerate cloud-native delivery.

Key outcomes in the first 12 months may include:

• Completing a comprehensive architectural assessment of the 3DS product suite, identifying key modernisation opportunities, technical constraints, and priority areas for improvement.
• Delivering a modernisation roadmap and migration plan that clearly defines architectural direction, sequencing, and the associated performance, operational, and cost considerations.
• Successfully modernising at least one product or major product component, resulting in measurable improvements in system operability, maintainability, and performance.
• Reducing reliance on manual operational processes and bespoke scripts through the introduction of automated tenant lifecycle management and environment provisioning.
• Improving observability and operational readiness by introducing consistent logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting across services and tenants.
• Contributing architectural insights and cost considerations to the modernisation business case, supporting decision-making around infrastructure and platform investments.
• Establishing trusted working relationships with product and platform engineering teams by delivering working modernisation patterns and reference implementations that teams can adopt.
• Contributing to the development of a long-term platform architecture roadmap that supports modernisation across multiple products within the Entersekt SaaS ecosystem.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering application modernisation programmes within AWS environments.
• Experience modernising applications through refactoring, re-platforming, or re-architecting legacy systems.
• Strong experience building and operating production systems using containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes (or equivalent platforms).
• Solid backend engineering experience with the ability to diagnose and improve performance, scalability, and reliability in production systems.
• Experience working with Java-based systems or comparable backend development stacks.
• Proven experience implementing modern architectural patterns such as microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Experience improving operational maturity through automation, observability, monitoring, and repeatable deployment processes.
• 8+ years of experience in cloud architecture, platform engineering, or senior software engineering roles responsible for production systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence engineering, product, and platform teams.
• AWS certification is advantageous but not required.

Personality Attributes

• Strong bias toward delivery with a willingness to work hands-on in complex production systems.
• Pragmatic and comfortable working with legacy environments while introducing modern engineering approaches.
• Ability to influence teams through working solutions, reference implementations, and practical improvements.
• Systems thinker who balances architecture decisions with operational reliability, cost management, and security.
• Collaborative team player who builds trust across engineering teams through clear communication and inclusive technical leadership.
• Maintains accountability for delivering measurable outcomes while enabling teams to adopt modern engineering practices.

The Ideal Candidate

We are seeking a passionate software engineer who thrives on designing and implementing high-performance systems. You will be part of our Authentication Advice team, part of the Advice & Intelligence POD, working on cutting-edge technologies to process vast amounts of data and provide secure, real-time insights and advice.

If you are excited about cloud technologies such as AWS, designing high-performance scalable systems, and enjoy working in an agile environment while solving complex problems, you will be a great fit for this strategic role.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building and enhancing products developed by the Authentication Advice team, which are crucial to Entersekt’s innovation pipeline. This team is responsible for processing requests reliably and at scale to improve the accuracy and efficiency of our risk assessment, authentication advice, and fraud detection systems.

You will take part in the development of secure, scalable microservices and influence technical direction, best practices, architecture, and design. You will assist the team lead and mentor junior team members and quality assurance engineers while collaborating closely with our cloud-based infrastructure team to build solutions that process and analyse transactions in real time, providing our clients with accurate risk assessments and guidance on effective authentication policies.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain robust, scalable microservices that process large volumes of requests in real time.
• Assist in the design of new features, ensuring high-performance and secure implementations.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers in delivering high quality products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative, data-driven solutions.
• Work closely with DevOps to ensure smooth deployment and scaling of microservices in cloud environments (AWS).
• Drive architectural improvements for high-performance, fault-tolerant systems.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• 5+ years of experience with general-purpose programming languages such as Java, Python, or Golang. Golang experience is preferred.
• Proven track record of mentoring junior team members.
• Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS. Familiarity with key AWS services such as EKS, Aurora, Lambda, S3 and API Gateway, and experience deploying and managing applications in cloud environments.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, for managing microservices-based architectures.
• A strong understanding of software architecture, with experience building and scaling microservices for high-performance environments.
• Familiarity with security best practices, including knowledge of cryptography, public key infrastructure (PKI), and secure system design.
• Experience with automated testing, including unit, integration, and performance tests, to ensure software quality and stability.
• Agile experience: familiarity with Scrum or Kanban methodologies, contributing effectively in cross-functional agile teams.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, though relevant experience is highly valued.

Personality Attributes

• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for finding creative solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to work as part of a cross-functional team.
• A drive for innovation, always looking to improve products and processes.
• Pride in delivering high-quality, secure, and efficient code.

Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Experience: 4+ years

Where the job is based:  Stellenbosch, South Africa

This role demands flexibility to work during UK hours

Who we are:

Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv South Africa, we're not just another tech company. We’re the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients while driving extreme value!

With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we're a proud member of the Kerv Group - a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders.

People come first always.  We are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our "Great Place to Work" certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Immerse yourself in an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry's most forward-thinking architects.

Primary Responsibility:

• Develop and maintain scalable, full-stack web applications using Next.js (frontend) and Node.js (backend)
• Build rich, user-centric interfaces that bring complex business processes to life through clean and responsive UI components
• Create RESTful using Node.js and TypeORM, with strong data modelling and performance in mind
• Write modular, maintainable code with comprehensive unit and integration tests, following TDD, using frameworks like Jest and Supertest
• Design and manage infrastructure components using Docker Compose, Terraform and deploy to AWS services (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, etc.)
• Translate UI/UX wireframes into functional front-end code with high attention to performance and accessibility
• Produce clear and concise technical documentation using DDD
• Collaborate with Engineers, Product, DevOps, and QA to ensure seamless end-to-end delivery
• Participate in code reviews, trunk-based development, continuous integration, and agile development practices

Essential Skills:  

• Strong experience with OO, enterprise integration, microservice and serverless architecture
• Strong experience with js or React.js, including SSR/ISR concepts
• Proficiency in js, Express.js/Fastify, and TypeORM or equivalent ORM tools
• Solid understanding of TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3
• Experience working with Docker Compose for local development and containerized deployment
• Comfortable using AWS services like EC2, ECS, RDS, and S3
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API design, error handling, and security best practices
• Experience with unit and integration testing using tools like Jest, Mocha, or Supertest
• Proficient using as Git, and CI/CD pipelines

Desirable Skills:  

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MariaDB, GraphQL, or MongoDB
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Biceps)
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum development practices
• Prior experience in building isomorphic/universal React applications
• Experience with mobile-first design or progressive web apps (PWAs)

We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like; 

• Excellent English speaking and written communication
• Ability to identify and pick up new technologies and operating systems quickly
• Ability to work effectively with remote teams in different time zones
• Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

What we can do for you:

We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employees:  

Real Flexibility – we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office. 

Awesome Environment – all of our employees will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work. 

Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market. 

Recognition & Growth – Recognized as a 'Great Place to Work' in both the UK and India, our commitment to excellence goes beyond our products and services. Our culture is a testament to the dedicated technologists who work tirelessly to drive our vision forward. Being a part of Kerv Digital means embracing a culture of innovation, collaboration, and mutual respect. Our teams in the UK and India thrive in an atmosphere that promotes continuous learning and growth.

Join us at Kerv Digital, where we don’t just build ground breaking technology - we build future.

Don’t take our word for it though, check out our impartial Glass Door reviews

More on equality:

At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.

Description

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile
channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA. We’re seeking Frontend Engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts
network.

As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our
values. You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by good knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few. A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology.
This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities
● Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them.
● Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices
● Automation of system infrastructure and deployments.
● Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it).
● Advocating agile practices to the client organisation.
● Mentoring client team members.
● Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities.

Required Skills
● Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems.
● Expert level knowledge of web, Javascript and the associated tooling. Experience with Javascript frameworks such as ReactJS, VueJS and AngularJS etc are highly desirable. Up-to-date knowledge of semantic HTML & CSS.
● Hands on experience with building performant, secure and accessible applications
● Hands-on experience with test driven development and other forms of automated testing.
● Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts.
● Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.
● Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.

Nice To Have
● Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including micro frontend architectures.
● Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in
containerised/cloud

Description

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, Germany, India, South Africa, the UK and the USA.

We’re looking for Quality Assurance Engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network.

As a member of the team, you will work alongside our clients to help deliver products and solutions to meet business needs and help your teams deliver better. And, of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values.

You should have extensive experience working with E2E delivery teams enabling them to deliver software products to meet business outcomes. You will also have a deep understanding of agile and lean delivery principles and know how and when to implement them, using several different methodologies. 

As a QA representative of the team you will also be required to have a strong understanding of both product and technical aspects that impact quality which includes being a part of user requirements analysis, understanding data requirements and the general operability and resilience of the product.

Responsibilities

At Equal Experts, the QA role is not carried out within a vacuum; our QAs form a core part of the delivery team throughout an engagement, ensuring that relevant tests are fully considered, designed and performed at the appropriate points. Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with the client and the team to ensure quality is embedded in every aspect of delivery
• Provide support and leadership by mentoring client team members in quality principles
• Collaborate closely with the developers; driving  the development of  test frameworks and engaging in technical discussions
• Make sure the testing practices are improved upon continuously and iteratively
• Maintaining a holistic view of the spectrum of tests implemented to support the drive towards continuous delivery 
• Demonstrating strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to changing environments

Required Skills

• Considers testability across all phases of the software development life cycle and displays a deep knowledge of test methodologies. 
• Displays a wide range of testing skills, knows how to apply them and possesses a deep appreciation for non functional testing concerns. 
• Seeks to enable the team to deliver quality products and services. Acts as a catalyst for mediation and collaboration within the team.
• Contributes to the implementation and design of high quality pipelines through pragmatic choices of testing tools and frameworks.
• Plays an active part in discussions regarding application architecture and understands the implications of those decisions on quality. 
• Demonstrates an understanding of continuous delivery and continuous integration. 
• Has experience with multiple languages and is willing to learn new development skills in order to participate in collaborative programming and pairing.
• Has an analytical mindset and is naturally inquisitive. Pays attention to fine grained detail and demonstrates an ability to zoom out to a holistic view.

*This role is open to candidates that are based in and eligible to work in South Africa

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA. 

We’re seeking backend engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network. 

As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values. 

You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by extensive knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few. 

A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology. 

This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities 

• Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them. 
• Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices 
• Automation of system infrastructure and deployments. 
• Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it). 
• Advocating agile practices to the client organisation. 
• Mentoring client team members. 
• Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities. 

Required Skills 

• Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems.
• Expert level knowledge of your chosen programming language and the associated tooling. Experience with other languages is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience with test driven development and other forms of automated testing.
• Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.

Nice To Have 

• Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including microservice architectures and RESTful services.
• Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in containerised/cloud environments using either AWS, GCP or Azure.

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.

Our Data Engineers are highly skilled in creating data pipelines for ingest, transformation and storage of data, usually at scale, and are familiar with standing-up analytics clusters.

This role involves using modern agile technical practices - including Continuous Integration and Deployment, TDD, and XP - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities

• Working with the client and the team to determine data processing and access needs and how best to deliver them.
• Creation and support of highly available data pipelines and storage solutions (e.g. data warehouses).
• Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices.
• Automation of data infrastructure and deployments. 
• Advocating agile practices to the client organisation.
• Mentoring client team members.
• Helping improve the team and clients’ data capabilities.

Required Skills

• Significant experience working on data pipelines, platforms and projects.
• Experience in developing solutions in one or more of the main Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong background in at least one programming language, Python or Scala preferable.
• Working with a variety of databases, data warehouses and distributed file systems in production environments.
• Strong experience in SQL and data modelling.
• Exposure with data processing at scale.
• Knowledge about GDPR and data security.
• Working with source control and infrastructure as code (Git/Github, Terraform, ansible etc.) and CI/CD tools.
• Understanding and being able to support data scientists or business intelligence teams - in data prep, mentoring and support functions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed

*This role is only open to candidates that are based in South Africa 

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for
blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important
projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile
channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to
assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.

We see operability as a fundamental tenet of our approach to building and delivering software. The
reasoning? The role is not simply about facilitating the continuous delivery of quality software; we focus
on the operational requirements we deliver to ensure that software runs in production, as desired.
Our Operability Engineers draw on all their experience of DevOps practices in what’s a very hands-on,
collaborative role – actively pairing with others to share knowledge and increase the delivery team’s
maturity around Operability.

This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous
integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well
as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities
● Influence, collaborate, and manage expectations with immediate stakeholders and the team.
● Build with consideration for the customer's ability to support and maintain the software.
● Provide support and leadership by mentoring client team members.
● Clearly communicate technical concepts or ideas to any audience.
● Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to changing environments.

Required Skills
● Open and capable of pair or mob programming. Can work closely with developers in cross-functional teams.
● Programming language and coding experience (e.g., able to build a simple service with automated tests).
● Strong automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools.
● Delivers small pieces of work continuously. Prefers shorter feedback loops and aims for all work to go to production.
● Understands when and why to use a branching strategy and recognizes when a branching strategy has gone too far.
● Strong technical background in build, release, and environments, with experience and expertise in software build tools, CI tools like Jenkins, Gitlab, and Github Actions.
● Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows. Comfortable working on the command line.
● Solid understanding of Cloud Computing providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and experience with functions, containers, and virtual machines.
● Familiarity with infrastructure provisioning tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure ARM,Pulumi).
● Understanding of telemetry practices (monitoring, graphing, alerting, anomaly detection) and tools (e.g., Elastic, Grafana, Datadog, Sensu, Prometheus).
● Proficient in network implementation, debugging network issues, and collaborating with networking teams to build and maintain networks.
● Experience running, operating, and supporting software in production.