FIXR
Backend Engineer, Cape Town
Status: Open
Salary: R 45,000 to R 80,000
Experience: 3 years
Role is on-site or hybrid.
Engineering drives everything we build. We’re looking for people who are practical, adaptable, and comfortable owning work from idea through to production.
As a small team, we move quickly and work across a wide range of problems. You’ll need to be comfortable switching contexts, making sensible trade-offs, and delivering value without over-engineering.
Key responsibilities
What you’ll be doing:
Build and ship new features on top of our existing platform
Improve core systems to increase performance, reduce complexity, and enable faster development
Contribute to technical design and architecture decisions
Collaborate with Product and Design to scope work and define pragmatic solutions
Provide input on planning, trade-offs, and timelines
Maintain code quality through thoughtful reviews and shared ownership
Core Tech Stack:
Python - Django, Django Rest Framework
PostgreSQL
The rest of our backend tech stack is:
Celery
Elasticsearch
Redis
Docker / Kubernetes / Helm / ArogoCD