Full Stack Developer (Mid-Snr level)

Location: Cape Town

Working Practices: Hybrid | Mondays and Thursday in office and remaining days remote

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 07H00 - 15H30 SAST

Reports to: Manager – Data, Cloud and AI Engineering

Job Summary:

Full Stack Developer will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable web applications using Node.js on the backend and JavaScript front end frameworks such as React or Svelte. You will collaborate closely with product, design, and platform teams to deliver high quality, user focused solutions. The role involves API design, frontend architecture, performance optimisation, and code quality ownership. You should have strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills, experience with modern frameworks, cloud-native development, and CI/CD practices. The ideal candidate is pragmatic, proactive, and comfortable working across the full stack in an agile environment. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate within a wider cross region development team of engineers 
• Design, build, deploy and maintain user facing applications within the OES delivery portfolio 
• Understand and onboard on to an established application code base 
• Bring systems thinking to the development process 
• Assist in maintaining and optimising solution performance and scalability 
• Develop proof of concepts or prototypes 
• Ensure technical implementation deliverables meet best industry standards 
• Contribute to the evolution applications engineering and technology within OES 
• Maintain and contribute to technical documentation of applications 
• Assist with the setup, deploy and maintenance of applications and services for OES partners domestically and internationally 

What does success look like?

• Successful and timely delivery of Applications and solutions for OES AI stream and our partners to achieve business and financial goals 
• Focus on student experience when designing and implementing solutions 
• Supporting a long-term perspective on technology solutions to ensure it is scalable 
• Security first mindset with solution design and implementation 
• Developing strong and trusting relationships with the geographically distributed team and management structure of the OES group 
• Contributing to the evolution of the application development capability in the AI stream and solutions within OES and assisting on achieving its KPIs 
• Champion technical excellence – Conduct regular reviews to simplify and streamline the platform, implementing improvements based on best practices. 

• You should have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, and minimum 4-5 years’ experience 
• Demonstrable commercial experience in the following technologies: 
• Proficiency JavaScript and Typescript 
• NodeJS back ends. 
• REST APIs and WebSocket 
• JavaScript front end frameworks and libraries (React, Svelte or similar) 
• HTML5, Web components, CSS 
• REST API development and consumption 
• Unit testing 
• Demonstrable commercial experience in concepts such as: 
• Git source control best practices 
• System design and thinking 
• Authentication and Web security 
• Database best practices 
• DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) 
• CI/CD (Jenkins, CodeDeploy, Git hub actions or similar) 
• Demonstrable commercial experience in Cloud-native development (preferably AWS) 
• S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, Cloudwatch 
• Serverless paradigm and technologies 
• Containerization 
• Effective problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail. 

• Beneficial to have but not required: 
• Experience with Python 
• Exposure to AI concepts and such as LLMs and RAG 
• Education industry technology standards such as LTI 
• AWS certification 

About OES 

OES is a vibrant and values-led organisation, and we are passionate about enhancing lives through education. We work with university partners, training institutes, and professional bodies worldwide, to develop and enable immersive and engaging learning experiences. We empower our teams to be student-focused, innovative, and embrace change with a growth mindset to ensure we achieve our vision of being the world’s most impactful enabler of education. We encourage our people to grow and develop through teamwork and a diverse range of projects, programs and challenging work. We trust our people to deliver, so when you work with OES, you will join a team who are empowered to impact every day.

Company Culture & Values 

We are a people-focused organization with a culture built around collaboration, connection, and working together toward one common goal. Our vibrant, values-led culture is grounded in four core principles that guide everything we do: 

Passion and Perseverance: We love what we do (even though it’s not always easy) and take pride in creating transformative learning experiences. We bring a ‘can-do’ attitude to our work, tackling challenges and inspiring others. 

Teamwork: We operate as cross-functional teams globally with trust and respect, celebrating success. We have fun while we work and enjoy collaborating with each other and OES partners. 

Agility and Innovation: We are innovative, lateral thinkers who use our skills to do things better for our students. We thrive in ambiguity, embrace change and challenge conventional thinking.  

Integrity: We do what’s right, and what we say we will do, every time. We value a culture of respectful feedback and believe that respect trumps harmony. 

These are some of the perks you can expect when you join the team:

• Develop:  
• In an agile environment within a high performing close-knit team 
• With modern hardware and directly on cloud services 
• Using modern cloud technologies 
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Medical allowance
• Commute allowance
• Flexible work for genuine career-life fit
• A healthy and supportive company culture
• Generous annual leave
• Paid maternity and paternity benefits
• Study leave
• Professional development and mentoring
• Construct Culture Club events
• Company funded lunch and drinks every 8 weeks

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