# Senior Software Engineer

We need a senior engineer who leads technical initiatives, designs complex systems and drives architectural decisions – in a space that is still emerging. The team is building banking services for entrepreneurs, small businesses and side-hustlers who haven't had suitable products before. The engineering you do here has a direct line to real economic change for people who have been underserved for too long. If you thrive on ownership, ambiguity and direct business exposure – read on. What you'll do here Take ownership of selected back-end domains within our emerging markets platform Lead the design of complex back-end systems and make architectural decisions that drive our technical standards Build and maintain integrations that power entrepreneur accounts, merchant acquisition and payment services – including account lifecycles, transactions, payment rails and cards Design and implement distributed, event-driven and domain-driven solutions Mentor and provide leadership to the existing engineering team Engage directly with stakeholders and senior business leaders to translate business objectives into technical solutions Evaluate and introduce technologies th

- **Id**: 3856479
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/capitec-senior-software-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Stellenbosch, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-24T10:45:20Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-24T10:45:20Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 13
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3348
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commercial & Retail Banks, Digital Banks & Neobanks

## Company

- **Id**: 2123918
- **Name**: Capitec
- **Domain**: capitecbank.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/capitecbank>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 21
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 13

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T06:26:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 80
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.884
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 13
- **Expected fill days**: 21
- **Reasons**: seen:13, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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