Senior Full Stack & Operations Engineer (TypeScript / React / PostgreSQL / Cloud & AI)

Position: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: Cape Town, South Africa (Hybrid)

Experience Level: Mid - Senior (Graduated pre-2020)

Company: Flyp (flyp.co)

About Flyp At Flyp, we are revolutionising the UK residential real estate market. The traditional process of buying and selling homes is slow, manual, and inefficient. We use proprietary technology, data-driven algorithms, smart staging, and multi-agency routing to transform properties, maximize value, and execute faster sales for homeowners.

We are expanding our core technical team in Cape Town. This role is a hands-on, hybrid position designed for a seasoned engineer who excels at building next-generation product features while maintaining high availability, health, and performance across our existing digital ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

1. Ecosystem Operations & System Support (~40-50%)

• System Health & Maintenance: Take active ownership of the operational health, uptime, and stability of Flyp’s existing production environment and core ecosystem.

• Incident Management: Serve as a key responder for critical system failures, data synchronisation issues, and service outages, driving rapid root-cause analysis (RCA) and long-term resolution.

• Monitoring & Alerting: Instrument proactive monitoring, logging, and performance metrics across APIs, database instances, and background job queues to catch failures before they impact users.

• Technical Debt & Refactoring: Identify operational bottlenecks, optimize legacy code, improve deployment pipelines (CI/CD), and ensure core dependencies remain secure and up to date.

2. Product Development & AI Innovation (~50-60%)

• Full-Stack Engineering: Design, build, and deploy new end-to-end features using TypeScript, React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.

• PropTech AI Integration: Implement Agentic AI systems, automated property valuation tools, and LLM-driven workflows (OpenAI, Anthropic) to streamline multi-agency orchestration and lead management.

• Database & Cloud Management: Optimize schemas, manage migrations, and tune complex queries on PostgreSQL while scaling microservices across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent cloud providers.

Requirements & Qualifications • Education: Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Science or a closely related quantitative field.

• Seniority Threshold: Graduated pre-2020 with 6+ years of post-qualification commercial software engineering experience.

• Operational Expertise: Proven experience supporting and maintaining production environments, debugging live applications, and managing operational SLAs.

• Frontend Mastery: Deep expertise in modern TypeScript and React (hooks, state architecture, and web performance optimization).

• Backend & Database: Core proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript REST/GraphQL APIs and advanced PostgreSQL management (indexing, migrations, execution plan optimization).

• Cloud & DevOps: Strong experience with GCP (or AWS/Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless architectures, and CI/CD automation.

• Applied AI & Automation: Exposure to Generative AI, LLM API integrations Agentic frameworks.

• Location: Must be based in or willing to relocate to Cape Town for a Hybrid.

Nice-to-Haves • Experience in PropTech, Real Estate, FinTech, or high-throughput marketplace ecosystems.

• Hands-on experience with monitoring tooling (Datadog, Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana).

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience using Terraform or Pulumi.

What We Offer • Competitive Compensation: Highly competitive ZAR salary reflecting senior-level expertise and operational responsibility.

• In-Person Collaboration: A dynamic, fast-paced work environment in our Cape Town office.

• End-to-End Ownership: Direct impact on both high-level system architecture and daily production stability in the UK property market.