Hybrid Senior Full Stack Engineer

at Storyteq

• Job title: Senior Full Stack Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud, FFmpeg, Google Cloud Platform, GraphQL, JavaScript, Laravel, Node.js, NoSQL, PHP, SQL, TypeScript, Vue.js
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cape Town, South Africa

About the role

• Join Storyteq as a Senior Full Stack Engineer to build robust services and frontends. Collaborate with teams to enhance creative production for marketing campaigns.

Responsibilities

• **Key responsibilities: **
• Build and ship **robust backend services **and** frontends** with real product impact
• Ensure systems are scalable, performant and easy to maintain
• Collaborate across teams to integrate services and deliver end-to-end value
• Model business domains into clean, performant data structures
• Coach and mentor other engineers on best practices to help them grow
• Collaborate with other engineers and lead technical delivery on initiatives within a domain or project
• Lead by example in engineering excellence, pragmatism and shared ownership.

Requirements

• **Key Requirements:**
• 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering full-stack products with TypeScript (and JavaScript) and PHP (Laravel)
• Strong backend development skills with **Node.js** and **PHP (Laravel)**
• Have experience with Vue.js (or other front-end frameworks)
• Solid experience designing and integrating **REST and/or GraphQL APIs**
• Comfortable working in **monorepo environments** and modular architectures
• Proficient in **data modeling** and working with SQL/NoSQL databases
• Familiar with testing practices, performance tuning, and scalable design principles
• You’re proactive, result-driven, and excited to work in a fast-growing tech scale-up
• Confident in making architectural decisions and communicating trade-offs
• Comfortable mentoring and supporting engineers to help them grow
• You’re a strong team player who values collaboration and shared success
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• **Nice to have:**
• Have affinity with **rendering technologies** (like ffmpeg)
• Have affinity with **motion graphics and visual effects software** (like After Effects)
• Experience with Gitlab CI/CD, DevOps, public cloud (like GCP).

Benefits

• **We Value Diversity**** **We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.** **We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation, but the wider industry too.** **At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet, because we’re always stronger together.** **ITG have a number of community groups (ERGs) available to employees which offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialise and check in with each other. These include Black ITGers Together, LGBTQ+ Together, Mens Health Together, Muslims Together, Neurodiversity Together, Working Parents and Carers Together and Women In Tech Together.