Software Engineer

Software Engineer (Full Stack, Backend-leaning)

Location: Cape Town, South Africa (Remote) About Yonda

Yonda is a fast-growing fintech company helping businesses automate global tax compliance (sales tax, VAT, GST). We combine software with deep tax expertise to simplify complex, high-volume workflows for eCommerce and SaaS businesses. We’re building a modern, API-first platform that integrates directly into our customers’ systems and we’re scaling our engineering team to support this next phase. The Role

We’re hiring a backend-leaning full stack engineer to help build and scale our core platform particularly our client-facing APIs and internal/external portals.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll ship production code quickly, work across the stack, and contribute to real systems used by real customers every day. What You’ll Be Doing

Build and scale client-facing APIs powering integrations with our tax engine

Develop features across our client and operations portals (React + TypeScript)

Write clean, maintainable Python backend services

Collaborate closely with product and engineering to ship high-impact features

Participate in code reviews with a focus on quality and long-term maintainability

Use AI coding tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) effectively as part of your workflow

Contribute to architecture decisions as we evolve our platform

Help improve engineering standards and best practices What We’re Looking For

Must-have

Strong Python backend experience (you can independently build and own services)

Solid React + TypeScript skills (able to ship features end-to-end)

Experience building and shipping production APIs for external users

Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools in day-to-day work

Experience working in startup or scale-up environments Nice-to-have

Experience in fintech, regtech, or compliance-heavy systems

Exposure to rule-based or event-driven systems

Familiarity with data pipelines, rate limiting, or large-scale processing

Experience building tools for non-technical users What Makes Someone Successful Here

You care deeply about code quality and correctness, not just speed

You can move quickly without breaking things

You take ownership and don’t rely on others to unblock you

You’ve built systems where accuracy matters (e.g. financial, legal, data-heavy)