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Job Location (Short): Cape Town, South Africa

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Business Unit: ALI

Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division (Hexagon) is seeking a Senior Software Developer.

As our Senior Software Developer, you will independently design, develop, and debug new and existing software products.

Ideal candidates will have 3+ years' experience in front-end development for web applications, working from a UX design spec to design and build front-end component hierarchies. Attention to detail and building maintainable UI components will be very important. Experience with TypeScript, React, and related tools will be beneficial.

You will.

• Acquire specific expertise in software design and development approaches and best practices.
• Recommend and make changes and enhancements to improve the quality of products and procedures.
• Write and implement efficient code.
• Work with more experienced team members to conduct root cause analysis of issues and perform unit testing.
• Engage with cross-functional teams to develop applications that meet customer needs.
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge in a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Rely on moderate experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.

Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications.

Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division helps clients design, construct, and operate more profitable, safe, and sustainable industrial facilities. We empower customers to unlock data, accelerate industrial project modernization and digital maturity, increase productivity, and move the sustainability needle.

Our technologies help produce actionable insights that enable better decision-making and intelligence across the asset lifecycle of industrial projects, leading to improvements in safety, quality, efficiency, and productivity, which contribute to Economic and Environmental Sustainability.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 25,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 5.4bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

At Hexagon, if you can see it, you can do it. Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division puts their trust in you so that you can bring your ideas to life. We have emerged as one of the most engaged and enabled workplaces. We are committed to creating an environment that is truly supportive by providing the resources you need to fully support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

At Hexagon, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Everyone is welcome—as an inclusive workplace, we do not discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.

Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You are valued here.

Electrum is the next-generation payments technology company that provides cloud-native software to optimise the processing of financial transactions. Since 2012, we have established ourselves as a respected payments technology partner through our deep expertise and track record in delivering trusted enterprise-grade payments solutions.

We’ve built a reputation in providing solutions for high-volume, low-value payment schemes and services that enable our clients to deliver to their customers at scale. We love that the projects we work on touch the lives of millions of South Africans daily, making a real difference.

We hire the best of the best and we offer great opportunities for personal growth and career progression.

Electrum is looking for a Senior Front-End Developer to help build and lead our front-end team and raise the bar on customer-facing interfaces. As one of the first senior hires in this team, you will shape the technical direction, establish standards, and mentor future team members — all while architecting, scaling, and continually shipping a data-intensive single-page application that powers complex, real-time payment workflows for banks, retailers and fintech partners.

• Lead the team in implementing and optimising front-end technologies.
• Architect and build robust front-end solutions for our cloud applications.
• Collaborate closely with back-end teams to create seamless full-stack products.

• Architect & evolve the SPA – own front-end from first commit through to production.
• Design predictable state – model complex payment flows with Redux (and sagas) or equivalent patterns; keep logic testable and deterministic.
• Drive the component library – extend the design system, enforce consistency, accessibility, and responsive behaviour.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers – translate prototypes into polished components, validate interactions, and iterate on feedback.
• Partner with back-end teams – define API contracts, optimise data payloads.
• Guard quality in the pipeline – maintain CI/CD scripts, automated tests, and lint rules; block regressions before they reach main.
• Mentor the team – review code, share patterns, and level-up junior engineers
• Champion security & compliance – implement OWASP best practices, uphold requirements, and conduct regular audits.
• Monitor & iterate – Collaborate with our Site Reliability function to track real-world performance

• Previous experience working in the Fintech industry.
• Built a front-end function from the ground up - stood up processes, tooling, and team culture in the early, ambiguous phase of a product or company, rather than inheriting a mature setup.
• Experience in Agile / Scrum methodologies.

• Impact at scale – Your UI will be the window into mission-critical payment rails.
• World-class teammates – Join engineers who obsess over code quality and continuous improvement.
• Career acceleration – Lead architectural decisions, influence roadmap, and mentor future specialists.

• 4+ years experience working as a developer in a software development team
• Modern SPA framework fluency — React, Angular, or Vue (React preferred)
• Advanced JavaScript / TypeScript skills (required)
• Solid client-side state management
• Design-system & reusable component library know-how
• REST/GraphQL (optional)
• CI/CD with automated tests and linting
• Performance, security, and accessibility best practices
• Experience operating enterprise-scale SPAs (feature flags, telemetry, observability)
• Proven ability to mentor and guide team members in front-end development best practices.

A good work-life balance is very important at Electrum. To help you manage your own time and energy, Electrum offers benefits such as:

• Flexibility around core working hours

• Daily cooked lunches and a stocked kitchen for the mid-day nibbles
• Team socialising, getaways, and social outings

We have created a safe, transparent environment where we know mistakes happen, and that’s okay. We even have a 3 step approach to dealing with them:

1. Tell everyone about it
2. Fix the mistake
3. Tell everyone about it

You are responsible for your actions – both the successes and the failures.

Responsibilities

Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division (Hexagon) is looking for an experienced Software Lead to join the j5 Product Team. This position requires individuals to provide technical leadership for a variety of programming assignments and plan and conduct development projects.

We work on challenging problems that are satisfying to solve and use a complex ecosystem of tools, technologies and systems offering good learning and development opportunities across a variety of domains.

Our team is smart, genuine, friendly and hard-working and we offer a collaborative working environment where everyone has a chance to share their ideas and contribute. We have a flexible, hybrid working model and appreciate the balance of a great office and home convenience. Lunch is offered in-office on Tuesdays and Thursdays and is a great chance to connect in-person and stay in touch.

• The design, planning and implementation of epic-level projects, and ensuring that their team delivers them by the negotiated date with high quality.
• Leading and implementing large, challenging feature sets through fast, accurate and reliable development, exercising sound judgement during project execution.
• Provides technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship in a broad area of expertise including contributing to high quality team software standards by establishing good practices and habits.
• Contributes to internal engineering processes and tasks by recommending new technologies to ensure quality and productivity.
• Recommends adjustments to resolve software issues, improve the functionality of existing software, and ensure that the design, application, and maintenance of software meets quality standards.
• Uses strong, effective communication skills to work closely with cross-functional team members, product owners, and other product stakeholders to develop applications that meet customer needs.

• A degree in Computer Science or Electrical and Computer Engineering (or similar) is preferable, with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in building and operating cloud-native applications and microservices is strongly preferred, ideally with experience in Kubernetes and IaC tools such as Terraform. This role includes full-stack development. Familiarity with Python and React is also preferred.

Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications.

Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division helps clients design, construct, and operate more profitable, safe, and sustainable industrial facilities. We empower customers to unlock data, accelerate industrial project modernization and digital maturity, increase productivity, and move the sustainability needle.

Our technologies help produce actionable insights that enable better decision-making and intelligence across the asset lifecycle of industrial projects, leading to improvements in safety, quality, efficiency, and productivity, which contribute to Economic and Environmental Sustainability.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 25,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 5.4bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

At Hexagon, if you can see it, you can do it. Hexagon’s Asset Lifecyle Intelligence division puts their trust in you so that you can bring your ideas to life. We have emerged as one of the most engaged and enabled workplaces. We are committed to creating an environment that is truly supportive by providing the resources you need to fully support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

* In the recently concluded workplace effectiveness survey by Korn Ferry, a global HR advisory firm, Hexagon, Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division has emerged as one of the most Engaged and Enabled workplaces, when compared to similar organizations that Korn Ferry partners with.

At Hexagon, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Everyone is welcome—as an inclusive workplace, we do not discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all. Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You are valued here.

At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission – to eliminate the back row in education – and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class digital education at scale. As the parent company of edX, the world’s leading online learning platform, 2U powers more than 4,000 online higher education offerings – from free courses to full degrees. Together with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporate partners, we are helping to unlock human potential.

What We’re Looking For:

As an Engineer IV at 2U Inc., you will take on a leadership role in ensuring the technological health of our team's projects. You will be responsible for selling complexity reduction strategies to stakeholders and leading the team in initiatives to increase technical health and reduce complexity. With a strong initiative and problem-solving mindset, you will coordinate with team members on cross-cutting technical issues, identifying gaps in knowledge, and filling them as necessary. Your sound judgment and ability to back up design decisions with empirical evidence will guide the team towards delivering high-quality solutions that meet the needs of all stakeholders.

As technical lead for Executive Education eCommerce & Marketplace (getsmarter.com ), you will be responsible for delivering on roadmap initiatives through partnering with product and business stakeholders.

Your technical leadership includes oversight of marketing initiatives (organic & paid media) relating to Executive Education, Degree & B2B.

You will ensure downstream systems fidelity through close partnership with engineering teams responsible for Executive Education Service Experience and Learning Platform domains.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

• Lead and implement a major project while supporting and consulting on other projects within the current software domain.
• Define and drive technical vision, strategy, and architecture for team-owned components.
• Take initiative to identify and solve important problems, possibly in unfamiliar areas, coordinating with others on cross-cutting technical issues.
• Self-assess knowledge gaps needed to effectively solve business problems and take proactive steps to fill them.
• Back up design decisions with empirical evidence through proof of concepts, tests, and/or external research.
• Collaborate with product management to align technical solutions with business goals.
• Should be flexible to solve customer issues/production issues according to urgency
• Partner with roadmap stakeholders to drive requirements that take into account all parties' needs.
• Deliver new functionality iteratively and incrementally, prioritizing business value.
• Independently work in unfamiliar areas of the codebase, identifying technical debt before it grows into significant issues.
• Understand architectural patterns (e.g., MVC, microservices) and apply them effectively in design decisions.
• Provide respectful and actionable technical guidance to peers via code reviews, mentorship, or other team processes.
• Communicate effectively across functions and work well with roadmap stakeholders.
• Lead idea implementation through community groups, aligning with 2U goals and sharing relevant information with team members.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies and frameworks to improve development efficiency and product quality.
• Provide thought leadership in software engineering practices and methodologies.
• Act as a technical liaison with other teams and stakeholders.
• Lead by example through writing high-quality, maintainable code and adhering to best practices.

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• 10+ years web development experience.
• A degree in a software development related field.
• Experience with statically typed languages like Java or C#.
• Solid experience with object oriented programming principles.
• Experience with Linux command-line and Git.
• Familiar with continuous integration.

Benefits & Culture

Our global employee base is a diverse collection of innovators, dreamers, and doers working together to transform lives through higher education. We believe that every employee can advance our shared purpose, and that life at 2U should be fun and meaningful. If you’re excited by the opportunity to provide over 40 million learners and counting with access to world-class online higher education, then join us – and do work that makes a difference. #NoBackRow

We offer comprehensive benefits (unique per country) and excellent work/life balance.
Full-time, ZA benefits include:

• 2 complimentary Getsmarter short courses per year
• Subsidised medical aid with Discovery Health Medical Scheme
• 4% 2U contribution towards Discovery Life Pension Fund and Group Risk Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Generous leave policy including time off to volunteer for non-profit organization, study leave, sports leave and a company-wide festive season break

2U Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At 2U, we are committed to building and sustaining a culture of belonging, respect, and inclusion. We are proud of the steps we’ve taken to bring together an employee base that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities. We strive to offer a workplace where every employee feels empowered by what makes us different, as well as by how we are alike.

2U is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodations, please reach out to us at: .

About 2U

For more than a decade, 2U has been the digital transformation partner of choice to great non-profit colleges and universities delivering high-quality online education at scale. As the parent company of edX, a leading global online learning platform, 2U provides over 45 million learners with access to world-class education in partnership with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporations. Our people and technology are powering more than 4,000 digital education offerings — from free courses to full degrees — and helping unlock human potential. To learn more: visit 2U.com.

About edX

edX is the education movement for restless learners and a leading global online learning platform from 2U. Together with the majority of the world’s top-ranked universities and industry-leading companies, we bring our community of over 45 million learners world-class education to support them at every stage of their lives and careers, from free courses to full degrees. And we're not stopping there — we're relentlessly pursuing our vision of a world where every learner can access education to unlock their potential, without the barriers of cost or location. Learn more at edX.org.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

2U is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against applicants or employees and ensures equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of their race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital status, disability, citizenship, military or veterans’ status, or any other classifications protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. 2U’s equal opportunity policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, job benefits and pay.

2U is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. 2U requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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JOIN a cutting-edge FinTech company helping to shape the future of digital payments across Africa as its next Senior Backend Software Engineer. You will design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations. Applicants must have 6+ years’ experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering, strong Python skills, AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless), MySQL and MongoDB.

• Successfully complete development tasks for payment integrations.
• Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations.
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant processing.
• Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis.

• 6+ Years of experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering.
• Strong experience with Python.
• AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless).
• Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB).
• Bonus - Experience with Payment Integrations.

• Problem-Solving & Ownership - Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new payment integration. Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment.
• Collaboration & Communication - Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills in English. Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners.

Environment

JOIN a cutting-edge FinTech company helping to shape the future of digital payments across Africa as its next Senior Backend Software Engineer. You will design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations. Applicants must have 6+ years’ experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering, strong Python skills, AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless), MySQL and MongoDB.

• Successfully complete development tasks for payment integrations.
• Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations.
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant processing.
• Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis.

• 6+ Years of experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering.
• Strong experience with Python.
• AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless).
• Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB).
• Bonus - Experience with Payment Integrations.

• Problem-Solving & Ownership - Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new payment integration. Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment.
• Collaboration & Communication - Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills in English. Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners.

Nature & Scope

Our client a dynamic and innovative global leader in the property and building industry is seeking a hands-on strategic and experienced Head of Information Technology (IT) to lead their global IT and software engineering functions. Reporting directly to the CEO this executive will be responsible for the vision strategy and execution of all aspects of the company's technology infrastructure operations and software development.

Based in the Cape Town service hub the Head of IT will manage a 100% cloud-based environment ensure the reliability and security of internal systems and lead the development of in-house and future customer-facing software. This role requires a

leader who can balance strategic planning with operational excellence driving technological innovation across the entire organization.

Responsibilities

IT & Software Development Strategy :

• Develop and implement a unified global technology strategy and roadmap encompassing both IT infrastructure and software engineering that aligns with the company's strategic objectives.
• Manage the global technology budget optimizing costs while investing in platforms and development that drive efficiency integration and future revenue growth.
• Serve as the primary technology advisor to the executive team providing insights
• on infrastructure cybersecurity and software development trends.

Software Engineering Leadership :

Infrastructure & Operations Management :

Cybersecurity & Compliance :

Team Leadership & Development :

Qualifications & Experience

Education : A Master's degree in Information Technology Computer Science a related technical field is required. An MBA in addition to the IT degree is a significant advantage.

Experience :

Certifications : Professional certifications such as CISSP CISM ITIL or PMP are desirable.

Key Competencies

Contractual Information

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CA Global will respond to short-listed candidates only. If you have not had any response in two weeks please consider your application unsuccessful however your CV will be kept on our database for any other suitable po sitions.

Key Skills

Active Directory,Customer Service,End user,Access Points,Deskside Support,Windows,SCCM,Troubleshoot,User Accounts,Desktop,PC,Backup,Setup,hardware,Technical Support

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Environment

JOIN a cutting-edge FinTech company helping to shape the future of digital payments across Africa as its next Senior Backend Software Engineer. You will design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations. Applicants must have 6+ years’ experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering, strong Python skills, AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless), MySQL and MongoDB.

• Successfully complete development tasks for payment integrations.
• Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations.
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant processing.
• Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis.

• 6+ Years of experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering.
• Strong experience with Python.
• AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless).
• Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB).
• Bonus - Experience with Payment Integrations.

• Problem-Solving & Ownership - Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new payment integration. Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment.
• Collaboration & Communication - Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills in English. Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners.

Environment

JOIN a cutting-edge FinTech company helping to shape the future of digital payments across Africa as its next Senior Backend Software Engineer. You will design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations. Applicants must have 6+ years’ experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering, strong Python skills, AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless), MySQL and MongoDB.

• Successfully complete development tasks for payment integrations.
• Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations.
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant processing.
• Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis.

• 6+ Years of experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering.
• Strong experience with Python.
• AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless).
• Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB).
• Bonus - Experience with Payment Integrations.

• Problem-Solving & Ownership - Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new payment integration. Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment.
• Collaboration & Communication - Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills in English. Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners.