MOHARA

Full Stack Mid-level Software Engineer

Status: Open

Salary: R 30,000 to R 65,000

Experience: 2 years

Role is on-site or hybrid.

Cape Town

How to Apply

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Or reach out to:

careers@mohara.co

Who are we:

We are venture builders and technology investors, partnering with startups and corporate ventures to design, build, and scale ambitious products.

MOHARA is a globally distributed team across the UK, Thailand, Mexico, and South Africa. We work as one team across regions, combining deep technical expertise with strong product thinking.

Our values are grounded in:

  • Craft - high standards and pride in our work
  • Clarity - simple, reliable ways of working
  • Ownership - vision, long-term thinking and accountability
  • Curiosity - asking questions, being brave and challenging assumptions

We care deeply about the people we build with - our clients, their users, and each other - and we continuously look for ways to improve how we work.

Culture:

Although we work in project teams, we operate as a single company. We actively collaborate, share knowledge, and draw on the collective experience of the wider team.

We’re looking for people who want more than just a role; people who want to contribute to how we build, not just what we build.

Our engineers:

  • Are curious and proactive, with a strong point of view
  • Communicate clearly and challenge constructively
  • Show empathy for teammates, clients, and end users
  • Take ownership, going beyond the brief to find better solutions

Our work with early-stage and scaling ventures means ambiguity is the norm. We value people who:

  • Push their own boundaries and continuously grow
  • Help shape client thinking, not just deliver against it
  • Are honest about trade-offs, risks, and constraints

We treat every client’s product as if it were our own, recognising the investment, ambition, and trust behind it.

The Role: What we’re looking for

Our engineering team is at the core of what we build. As a full stack engineer at MOHARA, you’ll work in cross-functional teams to design, build, and scale products from early concept through to production.

You’ll be responsible for the full software development lifecycle: shaping ideas with clients, building robust systems, and continuously improving what we ship.

We’re looking for engineers who:

  • Are comfortable building full-stack web and mobile applications end-to-end
  • Care deeply about understanding users and product outcomes, not just writing code
  • Think critically and challenge decisions when something doesn’t feel right
  • Pay attention to detail, while keeping sight of the bigger picture
  • Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and design
  • Have strong engineering fundamentals

Our environment requires balancing speed and quality, pragmatism and scalability knowing when to move fast and when to invest in stronger foundations.

AI Native Engineering:

We believe AI is a fundamental accelerator for how modern software is built.

You’ll be expected to:

  • Use AI tools as a core part of your development workflow
  • Continuously refine how you work with AI to improve speed and quality
  • Contribute to evolving our AI-native engineering practices across the team

Strong fundamentals still matter as AI amplifies good engineers, it doesn’t replace them.

Core Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain full-stack web and mobile applications across the agile product lifecycle
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality features
  • Contribute to system design and technical decisions within your team
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Debug issues and improve performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Use AI tools to accelerate development, testing, and documentation
  • Continuously improve your workflow, incorporating AI to increase speed and quality
  • Participate in code reviews and contribute to shared engineering standards
  • Understand the implications of security and data protection
  • Bring a willingness to challenge assumptions, raise issues and propose solutions

Requirements:

  • At least 2 years of professional experience as a Full Stack Software * Engineer either in Typescript (ReactJS, NextJS, Express, React Native) or Python (FastAPI, Django) stacks
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience in SQL databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
  • Familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Vitest, Playwright)
  • Proven experience working effectively within cross-functional, agile teams
  • Proficiency with Git for version control in collaborative environments.
  • Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

AI Proficiency (Required):

  • Expertise in using AI tools as part of daily development
  • Actively using AI to:

    Generate and refine code Debug and investigate issues Improve documentation and tests

  • Curious about improving how you work with AI, not just using it passively

Please note that only candidates who meet the stipulated minimum requirements will be considered. If you have not been contacted within 30 days, kindly consider your application unsuccessful at this time.