12 Engineering jobs in Bloemfontein

Daemon’s all about helping people use technology to make the world a better place. We love building trusted partnerships with our clients, and helping them embrace the tech that can make their business better. For that we need our people to embrace the Daemon way – doing great work in a great place, with diverse talents, all united by our shared values.

We’re looking for tech heroes with the va-va-voom to help us unite teams behind one vision, empower their potential, and inspire them with our One Team spirit.

The aim is to get everyone to the future faster. By turning teams into the movements that power digital transformation.

Our core set of client-centric solutions are designed to smash client’s problems and make tech work harder for them. They include:

• Cloud adoption, migration and optimisation, including performance engineering
• Data, ML and AI enablement

We tie this all together with a little thing we call ‘delivery excellence’, backed up with performance engineering, DevOps, and design thinking. And lashings of Daemonite energy, of course…

You’ll be a member of the Daemon Engineering team, pushing to win work on exciting, challenging and rewarding projects with some famous brands. Working hand-in-glove with high-performing teammates, you’ll develop personally and professionally, surrounded by superhero consultants digging deep to deliver together.

We’re looking for a Principal Consultant with a strong background in technology, proficient in multiple languages, tools and technologies. You’ll be comfortable leading teams, as well as holding conversations with clients up to and including C-Level.

We need someone who gets a kick out of working in a fast-paced environment, potentially overseeing more than one project, and acting as technical oversight for those projects.

You’re an excellent spoken and written communicator, comfortable working with senior and C-level stakeholders. You lead by example: you’re pragmatic and productive but also creative. You’ve got the beans to motivate teams of all sizes and manage development plans for yourself and others, knowing which areas to focus on to keep things moving.

You actively shape/own a domain community, whether that’s blogging, events or webinars. You have an entrepreneurial mindset that means you look for opportunities wherever you think you can dig them up, and you take pride in leaving everything you touch better than you found it.

Our values affect everything we do – and yours will too. So we’ll need you to have integrity (of course) and be a passionate, approachable pragmatist who’s always looking for ways to shake things up.

You’ll be responsible for a wide range of activities including:

• Leading people and building high-performing teams that leverage technology to deliver critical business priorities and solve complex problems for our clients
• Taking ownership of engagement and client relationships
• Helping clients create solutions to their business challenges leveraging all of our practices
• Technical and practical input into the Daemon Way — our overall engagement model
• Shaping engagements from a team, skills, requirements and commercial perspective, working closely with the resourcing function to resource those people.
• Defining work packages and planning for success
• Communicating complex technical problems in simple non-technical terms
• Leading one or more teams to deliver what the client needs
• Building and managing a network of relationships at relevant levels
• Taking an active role in identifying opportunities at existing clients, new clients, or within your own network
• Collaborating with Account Directors, the sales team and other SMEs, through pre-sales, discovery and proof of concept, to win new pieces of work
• Identifying and generating new client opportunities, moving client dialogue from a discussion of ideas to scoping work
• Managing stakeholder relationships, supporting Governance, and ensuring we deliver against expectations
• Supporting teams on challenging engagements and/or with challenging clients — our clients are demanding and we exceed expectations
• End to end engagement ownership
• People management and mentorship of less experienced consultants
• Proactive solution development for both clients and Daemon — if you see something not working, we expect you to step up
• Being visible as a leader in Daemon and in the industry
• Building technical strategies for Daemon and our clients
• Community leadership, building communities within Daemon and spearheading technical innovation

• Deep experience in one or more technical domains and/or market verticals
• You’ll be comfortable leading teams from a technical and delivery perspective
• A strong understanding of practice principles and engagements, ways of working, best practices, leadership skills, risk management, stakeholder management
• Experience of technical strategy and innovation with domain expertise in at least one of our key areas - Cloud, Data/AI/ML, Engineering & Delivery Excellence.
• Experience in end to end execution of commercial agreements, understanding appropriate legislation, risks & standards & taking ownership of proposals.
• Strong engineering principles that can be applied across technologies
• Writing and delivering against statement of works
• Implementing technical solutions for clients
• Demonstrating exceptional communication skills as a consultant
• Strong stakeholder management at all levels
• Implementing development projects in production
• Managing one or more team(s) of mid-level to senior engineers
• Experience of line or people management

You can show good knowledge and skills in but not limited to:

• AWS, Azure, GCP (one of them or a combination)
• Agile best practice (to a high level)
• A strong understanding of development lifecycle best practice
• Java (to a high level)/Python/Go
• A strong understanding of engineering principles and projects
• Containerisation
• DevOps practices

Internally, you’ll be assigned a mentee to help develop with your experience. On projects, you’ll be working with senior consultants and consultants, who’ll help you transform tech for our clients.

We pay competitive salaries with some great benefits (which we’re always reviewing):

• 25 days paid annual leave
• Private healthcare (extended to family members), including mental health cover, plus gym discounts
• Dental cover (extended to family members)
• Death in service policy (4 x annual salary)
• Electric vehicle incentive scheme
• Certification bounties (bonuses for completing tech certification)
• Remote Working

We’ve been powering digital transformations since 2007, when Calum Fitzgerald and Steve Bennett first founded Daemon Solutions. Now, we’re up to 160+ Daemonites, beavering away on the tech visions that’ll make all the difference for our clients – who include quite a few names you’ll know.

We live and work by our values – in everything we do, we work with integrity, and we’re approachable, pragmatic, progressive and passionate. Because we know that fostering shared values and a One Team spirit can be contagious. We’re out to create movements.

Because movements power digital transformation.

Smells like One Team spirit

We’re all about the energy that comes from confidence, camaraderie and a shared purpose. About unearthing the full potential of every engagement, to inspire and empower our clients, and leave them stronger than when we arrived.

So we empower you to deliver, with an open, honest culture where you can be yourself. And we give you mentoring, training, and plenty of scope for collaboration. Because we also want Daemon to be all about you.

But it’s not all work, work, work – we’re always finding excuses to get together, with regular socials, clubs and team lunches. When the time is right we throw seasonal parties, with gifts from us for everyone, and awesome extras. Like the Daemon FestDVal: we invite you, your friends and family (and dogs) to fool around with silly stuff like a drum workshop, laser tag and bouncy castles, listen to live music, and stuff yourselves with jerk chicken, veggie curry and donuts. Nice!

We love it when Daemonites want to get certified in new or existing technologies. Not only will we pay for you to do it – there might even be a bit of a bonus in it for you. We also make sure that you get internal training on the new products you need.

You’ll get the chance to work with enterprise clients on different types of engagements, so you can hone your fabulous skill set and get to grips with all the latest tech.

Plus you’ll find:

• The Daemon buddy system to support you in your first six months
• Support from a team of super-experienced consultants
• A progression panel that sits every six months

We pride ourselves in being a consultancy with a difference. We actively look to help shape and frame the career paths of our consultants, whether you are at the start of your career in technology or looking to diversify and re-train.

Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know, treat every opportunity as an open door to the next step of your career!

This is the really easy part. Attach your CV to an email and send us a message! Feel free to include anything that will inform, educate or entertain us too!

Our Recruitment Team is now on the case. We’ll be in touch within 24 hours for a short call (about 20 mins) to discuss you, the role and what you want to do in the future.

Within 48 hours of the initial call we move to the Interview phase. The first is with one of our Heads, it’ll be a call, video chat or a face-to-face. We’ll dive deeper into your suitability for the role and get into a few more specifics. This will typically last 45mins to an hour.

The final interview will be at our Central London office, for this the Head of your team will be joined by one of our Founders. We’ll look to see how you’ll fit in with the Daemon Team, this will include covering the role in depth and more on the Daemon culture, values and vision for the future.

We make a commitment to come back to you within 24 hours after your final interview. This will be with an offer to join the team or detailed feedback as to why you weren’t successful this time.

Approachable

We’re easy to talk to and work with. We like to stay open-minded: we listen, absorb and consider the ideas, views and knowledge of others.

Integrity

We have a strong sense of fairness and honesty; we do the right thing in a reliable way. But we can – and will – say no when required.

Pragmatic

We approach things sensibly and realistically, with a clear focus on outcomes, goals, and getting things done.

Progressive

We embrace change; there are always things that could be improved. We like to do this collaboratively with our clients and colleagues, we don’t do it to them.

We always commit with energy, enthusiasm and determination. Call it a ‘can do’ spirit or simply rolling up our sleeves. We care about what we do.

Purpose of your role as an Engineering Team Lead

As an Engineering Team Lead, you will be working alongside other engineers and collaborating with product stakeholders, making sure work is planned, delivered incrementally, and with quality built-in. You will support and coach other engineers, actively enabling them to grow based on their particular interests.

Our tech stack

• TypeScript, Node.js, React, Golang, PSQL
• GraphQL, REST
• Pulumi, AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare, Fastly, New Relic, Github actions

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate closely with product stakeholders to prioritize and plan projects that add real value to our users
• Work with the team on strategy and execution, delivering testable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions
• Help engineers identify and grow in their areas of interest by coaching, mentoring, and giving timely feedback
• Participate in and identify architectural improvements, prioritize and act on them
• Bring creative ideas and expertise to the table, having a real impact on our product and engineering practices
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth

Expectations timeline

1 Month

You have gone through different onboarding sessions covering our product, current architecture, and relevant services we run on production, learned about the company’s origin and current vision, and met colleagues from different departments as part of onboarding as well as weekly virtual social events.

You’d have started to get to know your teammates, learned how we work daily and contributed to our codebase.

3 Months

You will be familiar with most concepts related to our product and worked alongside your teammates to deliver features and improvements on production successfully.

You’d have had a few 1:1s with your team members to check in on how things are going and you will have collaborated with fellow engineers to improve our architecture and developer experience.

6 Months

You will have made solid contributions to our product and stack, influenced our ways of working, shared knowledge and previous experiences, helping substantially with important decision-making.

What we expect from you:

• 8+ years of backend development experience, ideally using Golang
• Experience writing testable code, following best practices and design patterns when applicable
• Experience developing APIs, ideally using GraphQL and/or REST
• Mindful about performance and able to measure it meaningfully
• Strong expertise in analyzing product requirements and creating technical designs
• Experience mentoring and coaching other teammates to grow and improve continuously
• At least 2 years of experience leading a team, covering people and delivery management
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to take ownership, but also ask for help and advice when needed
• Openness to feedback and willingness to learn, reflect, and grow within the organization
• Experience in successfully driving technical, business, and people-related initiatives that improved productivity, performance, and quality

The Process

• Intro call with Talent Acquisition
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Technical Interview
• Team Fit call
• Reference Check and Offer

The response time is usually within 1-2 week for each step. You could expect some alterations when necessary.

About us

At Hygraph we’re building the leading GraphQL Federated Content Platform. Our goal is to enable developers and content operators to create, enrich, unify, and deliver content across platforms seamlessly. We are trusted to manage content for teams from over 50,000 organizations like Telenor, Burrow, Gamescom, and Shure. With over $10M in funding from OpenOcean, Peak, and Paua Ventures, you will be part of a remote-first and globally distributed team of over 60 colleagues, committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately.

Hygraph is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We believe that diversity, unique experiences, qualities, and different cultures enrich our workspace’s productivity and promote innovation and creativity.

Lifecheq is a fintech company aiming to provide the global emerging middle class with quality holistic financial advice. Our platform combines smart tech, deep financial expertise, and a unique approach to financial advice. We're growing rapidly, backed by major investors including Summit Africa, Futuregrowth, African Rainbow Capital, and Naspers Foundry.

As we scale, we believe that engineering management is fundamentally about creating the conditions for exceptional teams to thrive. The Engineering Manager role sits at the heart of this philosophy - bridging the crucial gap between technical excellence and human potential. You'll shape not just what we build, but how we build it and who we become as an engineering organisation.

Our fully remote team primarily uses Clojure for backends and a mixture of ClojureScript and TypeScript for frontends. We're organised as cross-functional agile squads with engineers, financial experts, designers, and product managers.

As Engineering Manager, you'll sit at the crucial intersection between people leadership and delivery enablement, reporting to our SVP Engineering. You'll have direct line management for 7-9 engineers across 3-4 squads whilst partnering with Tech Leads and Product Managers to ensure effective delivery.

Own the career development of your direct reports through clear performance expectations, regular 1:1s, and targeted coaching. Foster an engineering culture of excellence, learning, and psychological safety whilst representing the engineering team in cross-functional forums.

Partner with Tech Leads and Product Managers to navigate trade-offs, remove blockers, and maintain quality standards. Support prioritisation with business context, facilitate cross-squad dependencies, and ensure predictable delivery cadences.

Lead hiring processes from definition through onboarding, making key hiring decisions whilst building our engineering talent pipeline and employer brand.

You're an experienced engineering leader with an intense interest in understanding people and helping them be more effective in teams. You've had a positive effect on others' careers and know how to repeat that success. You've learned from tough people experiences and worked effectively with people very different from yourself.

• 10+ years professional software development experience

• Prior engineering management experience with proven people development track record

• Experience supporting delivery across multiple technical workstreams

• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex organisational dynamics

• Experience with performance management and career development

• Track record of improving delivery predictability whilst balancing technical debt with feature delivery

• Experience with Clojure and/or JavaScript environments (helps you offer more specific guidance)

• Background in fintech or adjacent regulated industries

• Experience scaling engineering teams during rapid growth periods

• History of successfully working in matrix organisational structures

• Team Health : Improved retention, engagement scores, and team satisfaction

• Delivery Performance : Increased predictability, velocity, and quality metrics

• Leadership Effectiveness : Reduced escalations to senior leadership

• Talent Development : Growth in technical and leadership capabilities within your team

• Recruitment Success : Effective time-to-fill, quality of hires, and onboarding

Lifecheq values technical depth, autonomy, and clear thinking. You'll be part of a capable team that enjoys solving hard problems together and takes pride in doing things properly. It's a collaborative, engineering-driven environment where well-reasoned decisions carry weight and your ideas will be taken seriously.

This is a fully remote role requiring fluency in English and availability during core hours (10:00-16:00 GMT+2). For South African residents, this will be a permanent position; otherwise, a contract arrangement.

We take the development of our people very seriously and will work with you to carve out your success plan, accelerate your career, and make a real difference in the lives of real people seeking better lives.

Who we are

The Nomic Foundation is a non-profit advancing the Ethereum ecosystem. We build open-source runtimes, compilers, build systems, and deployment solutions that are used by tens of thousands of developers. We emphasize robust engineering and lean processes, allowing for quick decision-making and distraction-free software development. You have the opportunity to shape the future of the Ethereum ecosystem through deep technical work on critical developer infrastructure, where your specific contributions will have a tangible impact.

About the team

The Slang team builds a modular set of compiler APIs for Solidity code analysis. Our users are internal and external developers integrating our APIs in their developer tools to process Solidity code and make it easier to build smart contracts for their end users. The project is at an early stage working towards feature completeness. We aim to upgrade the Solidity developer experience and tooling ecosystem in the long term.

This is a fully-remote role, and we’re open to candidates applying within UTC+2 to UTC-4 timezones.

What you’ll do

Build a High-Performing Team:

• Motivate and guide engineers to achieve their full potential, fostering a culture of learning and development.
• Implement and improve processes like performance reviews, career development plans, and efficient hiring practices.
• Establish a clear team structure with roles and ownership well-defined.

Drive Successful Product Delivery:

• Take ownership of projects, ensuring on-time delivery with the desired features and quality.
• Work with the team to define MVPs, set milestones, and assess project feasibility.
• Manage project scope by prioritizing tasks, identifying dependencies, and mitigating risks.
• Collaborate with product managers to translate user needs and market trends into a technical roadmap.

Communication & Alignment:

• Increase transparency within the team by sharing information on other Nomic projects and initiatives.
• Champion the team’s achievements and deliverables to other departments.
• Proactively communicate with leadership and stakeholders to address concerns, clarify direction, and ensure alignment across teams.
• Articulate a clear vision for the team’s mission, challenges, and milestones, connecting their work to Nomic’s broader goals.

High-Level Technical Leadership:

• Actively participate in technical discussions, providing high-level guidance and expertise during code reviews and design decisions.
• Act as a mentor and sounding board for technical decisions, ensuring alignment with project goals while empowering individual ownership.

Who we’re looking for

We are searching for an experienced technical leader with a coaching mindset to empower our growing engineering team (3 engineers). You’ll foster individual growth through thoughtful guidance and mentorship, creating a respectful and collaborative environment. Given the highly technical nature of the project, a strong technical background is essential to provide support for this team.

• 3+ years of experience in managing & growing teams, establishing a team structure, and ensuring team wellbeing, ideally in a remote and async setting.
• 6+ years of experience leading projects.
• Proven track record of technical leadership, managing projects and multi-year roadmaps.
• Ability to direct without micromanaging or forcing decisions.
• Experience implementing or refining processes around performance reviews, career development, and hiring.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to design and implement scalable, maintainable software architectures.
• Strong expertise in conducting code reviews, identifying potential technical issues or risks, and suggesting improvements.

Nice to have

• Prior experience building compilers or leading compiler projects.
• Experience with open source and/or Rust projects.

Compensation and benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Budget for IT equipment
• Annual Learning & Development Budget
• Vesting ETH grant as part of total compensation
• Statutory benefits specific to your location (depending on the employment contract)

Why join us?

Mission-driven value creation

Your contributions will directly impact an ecosystem that is shaping the future of finance, data, and ownership. You won’t be working on optimizing a revenue stream to increase shareholder profits; you’ll create value for the Ethereum community and developer ecosystem.

Lean and robust

We run robust engineering practices and lightweight processes that provide us with structure and fast decision-making. Your time will be spent on technical challenges, coding, and launching features.

We value diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We recognize they are essential to growth and innovation, and sometimes the perfect candidate might not tick every box in the job description. If you’re passionate about what you do and have valuable experience – we want to hear from you. Your unique background and skills could be just what our team needs and we warmly encourage you to apply.

Qualifications

• B.Eng or B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Strong time management skills.
• Fully bilingual in Afrikaans and English.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Willingness to relocate.

• Designing trailers and trailer components.
• Overseeing the manufacturing process of new designs.
• Fault-finding and providing solutions.
• Innovating and redesigning trailers.
• Conducting research and development.
• Designing and manufacturing industrial equipment.
• Designing and implementing systems.
• Preparing bills of materials.

• B.Eng or B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Strong time management skills.
• Fully bilingual in Afrikaans and English.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Willingness to relocate.

Responsibilities and duties:

• Designing trailers and trailer components.
• Overseeing the manufacturing process of new designs.
• Fault-finding and providing solutions.
• Innovating and redesigning trailers.
• Conducting research and development.
• Designing and manufacturing industrial equipment.
• Designing and implementing systems.
• Preparing bills of materials.

Requirements

• B.Eng or B.Tech degree in Civil, Mechatronic, Electrical Engineering.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Strong time management skills.
• Fully bilingual in Afrikaans and English.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Willingness to relocate

• Designing trailers and trailer components.
• Overseeing the manufacturing process of new designs.
• Fault-finding and providing solutions.
• Innovating and redesigning trailers.
• Conducting research and development.
• Designing and manufacturing industrial equipment.
• Designing and implementing systems.
• Preparing bills of materials.

Requirements:

• B.Eng or B.Tech degree in Civil, Mechatronic, Electrical Engineering.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Strong time management skills.
• Fully bilingual in Afrikaans and English.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Willingness to relocate

Responsibilities and duties:

• Designing trailers and trailer components.
• Overseeing the manufacturing process of new designs.
• Fault-finding and providing solutions.
• Innovating and redesigning trailers.
• Conducting research and development.
• Designing and manufacturing industrial equipment.
• Designing and implementing systems.
• Preparing bills of materials.

Who we are

The Nomic Foundation is a non-profit advancing the Ethereum ecosystem. We build open-source runtimes, compilers, build systems, and deployment solutions that are used by tens of thousands of developers. We emphasize robust engineering and lean processes, allowing for quick decision-making and distraction-free software development. You have the opportunity to shape the future of the Ethereum ecosystem through deep technical work on critical developer infrastructure, where your specific contributions will have a tangible impact.

About the team

The Hardhat team builds our established and market-leading products. These are user-facing infrastructure that developers use to write, test, compile, and deploy their Solidity contracts for Ethereum. Our users depend on our products for their end-to-end experience of building software. We deliver these features at scale, with users ranging from beginners learning the ropes to teams managing production systems with billions in user on-chain capital at stake. We aim to provide the Ethereum ecosystem with a professional developer tool that they can rely on to rigorously build, test, and maintain Ethereum software.

This is a fully-remote role, and we’re open to candidates applying within UTC+2 to UTC-4 timezones.

What you’ll do

Build a High-Performing Team:

• Motivate and guide engineers to achieve their full potential, fostering a culture of learning and development.
• Implement and improve processes like performance reviews, career development plans, and efficient hiring practices.
• Establish a clear team structure with roles and ownership well-defined.

Drive Successful Product Delivery:

• Take ownership of projects, ensuring on-time delivery with the desired features and quality.
• Work with the team to define MVPs, set milestones, and assess project feasibility.
• Manage project scope by prioritizing tasks, identifying dependencies, and mitigating risks.
• Collaborate with product managers to translate user needs and market trends into a technical roadmap.

Communication & Alignment:

• Increase transparency within the team by sharing information on other Nomic projects and initiatives.
• Champion the team’s achievements and deliverables to other departments.
• Proactively communicate with leadership and stakeholders to address concerns, clarify direction, and ensure alignment across teams.
• Articulate a clear vision for the team’s mission, challenges, and milestones, connecting their work to Nomic’s broader goals.

High-Level Technical Leadership:

• Actively participate in technical discussions, providing high-level guidance and expertise during code reviews and design decisions.
• Act as a mentor and sounding board for technical decisions, ensuring alignment with project goals while empowering individual ownership.

Who we’re looking for

We are searching for an experienced technical leader with a coaching mindset to empower our growing engineering team (4 engineers). You’ll foster individual growth through thoughtful guidance and mentorship, creating a respectful and collaborative environment. Given the highly technical nature of the project, a strong technical background is essential to provide support for this team.

• 3+ years of experience in managing & growing teams, establishing a team structure, and ensuring team wellbeing, ideally in a remote and async setting.
• 6+ years of experience leading projects.
• Proven track record of technical leadership, managing projects and multi-year roadmaps.
• Ability to direct without micromanaging or forcing decisions.
• Experience implementing or refining processes around performance reviews, career development, and hiring.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to design and implement scalable, maintainable software architectures.
• Strong expertise in conducting code reviews, identifying potential technical issues or risks, and suggesting improvements.

Nice to have

• Prior experience building extensible developer tools, including test environments, deployment systems, build pipelines.
• Experience with open source and/or TypeScript projects.

Compensation and benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Budget for IT equipment
• Annual Learning & Development Budget
• Vesting ETH grant as part of total compensation
• Statutory benefits specific to your location (depending on the employment contract)

Why join us?

Mission-driven value creation

Your contributions will directly impact an ecosystem that is shaping the future of finance, data, and ownership. You won’t be working on optimizing a revenue stream to increase shareholder profits; you’ll create value for the Ethereum community and developer ecosystem.

Lean and robust

We run robust engineering practices and lightweight processes that provide us with structure and fast decision-making. Your time will be spent on technical challenges, coding, and launching features.

We value diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We recognize they are essential to growth and innovation, and sometimes the perfect candidate might not tick every box in the job description. If you’re passionate about what you do and have valuable experience – we want to hear from you. Your unique background and skills could be just what our team needs and we warmly encourage you to apply.