Full Stack Engineer

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

Position:

Full-Time, Permanent

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa (Hybrid)

Experience Level:

Senior (Graduated pre-2020)

Company:

Flyp (flyp.co)

About Flyp

At Flyp

, we are revolutionizing 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 synchronization 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, vector stores (pgvector/Pinecone), and Agentic frameworks .

• Location: Must be based in or willing to relocate to Cape Town for a fully in-office role .

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.