FIXR

Backend Engineer, Cape Town

Status: Open

Salary: R 45,000 to R 80,000

Experience: 3 years

Celery Django Python RabbitMQ Django REST Framework Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) Postgres

Role is on-site or hybrid.

Cape Town

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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