Senior Full Stack Developer

Reference: 11016 MLR
Consultant: Michelle le Roux

Job Description:

• Design, build and maintain features across our eCommerce platform, admissions services, and mobile apps
• Architect and implement GraphQL APIs, including federated schemas using Apollo Gateway
• Work across both Angular and React frontends, contributing to admin dashboards and customer-facing applications
• Build and improve backend services in TypeScript/Node.js using NestJS and Express
• Contribute to our React Native mobile apps
• Manage and optimise MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, including data modelling and query performance
• Work with GCP infrastructure — Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage
• Ensure systems are production-ready, resilient, and built for high availability, including monitoring, alerting, and graceful failure handling
• Leverage AI tools and assistants to accelerate development, improve code quality, and solve problems more effectively
• Participate in code reviews and help establish engineering standards
• Mentor intermediate and junior developers
• Collaborate with a distributed team across South Africa and the UK

Qualifications:

• 5+ Years of professional full stack development experience
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js
• Solid experience with GraphQL — schema design, resolvers, and API architecture
• Experience with at least one of Angular or React, and willingness to work across both
• Strong relational database skills (MySQL and/or PostgreSQL)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably Google Cloud Platform
• Proven experience building and operating production-ready systems at scale, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and high availability
• Comfortable working across multiple codebases and services
• Proactive use of AI tools (e.g. Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) in your development workflow, we expect engineers to use AI to move faster, not as a crutch but as a multiplier

How to Apply:

• Email your comprehensive CV to exceedhr@exceed.co.za.
• If you are already registered, please forward your CV and the relevant reference number to the consultant with whom you are currently registered in order to avoid duplicity on our system.
• We reserve the right to only conduct interviews with candidates of choice.
• Applicants who have not received feedback within 30 days from the closing date must please accept their application as unsuccessful.

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