# Senior Software Engineer

iKhokha is a place where chance takers become change makers. At iKhokha, we’re made to make it. As you'd expect, our pace is fast-moving and ever-changing. We like it that way. As one of the fastest growing Fintech's in Africa we've built a team of global change-makers who want to make an impact. If you believe that you are made to make it, be a chance-taker and help us empower small businesses in South Africa. Behind every thriving entrepreneur is the power to do more, and at iKhokha, we’re building the technology to make that possible! The iKTribe is on the hunt for a Senior Software Engineer who is ready to bring fresh thinking, technical expertise and a passion for innovation to our growing tech team. So, what will you do? You will build and scale secure, high-availability systems within the FinTech space, with a strong focus on backend services, cloud-native architectures, and payment integrations. You will contribute to both frontend and backend development, with a primary focus on backend services, APIs, and system integrations, while supporting modern frontend applications using React.js, HTML5, and CSS where required. You will be responsible for the end-to-end development

- **Id**: 4262208
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ikhokha-senior-software-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Umhlanga, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T10:06:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T15:44:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6353
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Payment Processing & Gateways

## Company

- **Id**: 57418
- **Name**: iKhokha
- **Domain**: ikhokha.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ikhokha>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Angular** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Jest** — Optional: no
- **Kanban** — Optional: no
- **Magento** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **PHP** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **South Africa** — Iso: ZA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T15:44:51Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T17:39:40Z

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