Full Stack JavaScript Python AI Engineer (Johannesburg)

Are you a talented Full Stack Engineer looking for an opportunity to build modern, AI-powered products from end to end? This role offers the chance to work across both frontend and backend development, combining React, TypeScript and Python with cloud technologies and emerging AI capabilities.
You’ll be involved in building production-grade applications, designing APIs and database solutions, and integrating LLM-powered features, RAG and intelligent search into real-world products. You’ll also work with modern development practices including Docker, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure, while leveraging AI coding tools to accelerate development without compromising quality.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of professional experience building full-stack web applications in production
• Strong frontend skills: TypeScript and React, with experience building production-grade UIs
• Strong backend skills: Python (FastAPI, Django, or similar), with experience designing and building APIs and services
• Practical experience designing and working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and writing efficient queries
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs
• Experience integrating AI/LLM-powered features into a product — calling LLM APIs, working with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or vector search, or partnering with ML/AI teams to ship model-backed functionality
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker)
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals: testing, version control, code review, and system design
• Proficiency working with AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate development, while critically reviewing and validating AI-generated code

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, Sentry)
• Familiarity with vector databases or embedding-based search for AI-powered features
• Background working in a startup or small, cross-functional team
• Exposure to design systems and component libraries