392 Python jobs in Cape Town

• • Python Developer
    Cape Town | R50 000 - R70 000

    About Our Client
    Our client is a fast-growing technology company transforming the healthcare space by connecting patients, providers, and partners through seamless digital platforms. With a mission to simplify healthcare access, they focus on building scalable, secure, and user-friendly systems that handle high traffic and sensitive data. They operate with a collaborative, product-driven culture where engineers take ownership and directly impact real-world patient experiences. Their environment encourages innovation, continuous learning, and applying best practices in engineering and data security.

    The Role: Python Developer
    You will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying back-end services that power critical functions such as bookings, payments, notifications, and integrations with healthcare partners. The role requires end-to-end ownership of services across the full SDLC, ensuring reliability, scalability, and compliance with security and privacy standards.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Design, build and deploy Python back-end services for bookings, search, payments, and notifications

    • Own services across the full SDLC: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, observability

    • Integrate with external partners including practice-management systems, pharmacy/insurer platforms, and communications providers

    • Optimise performance and reliability for high-traffic flows

    • Write robust automated tests, participate in code reviews, and support continuous delivery

    • Ensure compliance with POPIA and data security best practices

    • Contribute to technical design, documentation, and engineering standards

    • Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations

    About You

    • 3-6+ years of professional experience building production web services with Python

    • Strong experience with Django or Flask

    • Solid database knowledge including schema design, migrations, and performance tuning

    • Skilled at designing and consuming APIs with understanding of idempotency, pagination, and versioning

    • Hands-on with cloud-native deployment (AWS preferred) and containerisation (Docker)

    • Strong focus on security (authN/authZ, secrets management, data privacy)

    • Familiar with monitoring, logging, and performance profiling tools

    • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, thrives in an agile environment

    • Nice to have: experience in healthcare, fintech, or high-volume transactional systems; exposure to event-driven architectures, front-end (React/TypeScript), or observability tools

A vacancy exists for a Python Software Engineer within the Kazang – Micro Merchant Division,
in Century City, Cape Town (Hybrid Remote).

Our software engineering team is growing to support the exciting projects we have planned. You
will be part of a diverse cross-functional team of talented individuals who are driving valuable
innovation in the business.

We are curious, passionate, short on ego, and high on output. We love what we do and what we
create. We value having great people on our team who are not only committed but share our core
values and vision.

You will work on complex and challenging technical requirements and gain exposure to diverse
products and projects within the fintech space.
We have a supportive, team-oriented culture with a strong emphasis on psychological safety,
integrity, high performance and transparency. Our company culture is inclusive and welcoming.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build, test and maintain high quality code to company standards.
• Consistently produce code that is efficient, easy to maintain, well documented and has a low defect count.
• All code is fully tested at unit and integration level (defect rate reducing over time as skills improve).
• Full understanding of Agile Software Development and Scrum processes from a SWE POV.
• Full engagement and participation in Scrum ceremonies, team meetings and technical discussions.
• Participate in grooming, refinement and PI Planning
• Clear and unambiguous user stories, tasks and feedback on tickets.
• Produce clear, concise and comprehensive documentation.
• Identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities in codebases.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, balancing short-term needs with long-term code quality and maintainability.
• Assist with code reviews for more junior colleagues.
• Provide support to grads and junior colleagues.
• Provide software support during the entire software lifecycle, and act as an escalation point for our excellent Tier 4 Application Support Engineers.
• Working towards certification and upskilling in relevant tech stacks and strategic technologies.

Requirements:

• More than 3 years’ experience as a software engineer
• Computer Science or Engineering degree (software focused) or equivalent qualification
• Proven experience in Python and the Django framework
• Frontend, Backend and Database design and development experience
• Strong track record in collaboration and communication
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum from a software engineering perspective
• Familiarity with modern DevOps practices (GitHub or GitLab)
• Fintech, payments, or transaction system experience is advantageous

Technical Competencies:

• MySQL
• Python
• Django
• Vue
• Bootstrap
• HTML5
• JavaScript
• Nginx
• Docker
• Git
• Elasticsearch or similar