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Senior Full Stack Engineer
August 20, 2025

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Location
Cape Town
,
Johannesburg
Employment:
Full-time
Location Type:
Hybrid
Department
Engineering
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About Playroll

Playroll was built to power a borderless economy. We help businesses and their people thrive, no matter where they're based. Since opening our doors in 2022, we've grown alongside the world of distributed work. What started with our Employer of Record solution has expanded into an integrated suite of HR solutions for companies of every size, covering contractor management, global employment, payroll, benefits and compliance. We're looking for talented people to help shape the future of work, today.

We're driven by a constant pursuit of excellence – building better products, better problem-solving, better ways to work across borders. If you thrive in fast-moving environments and want to help build what comes next, join our team to drive meaningful change.

About the Role

What Being A Senior Full Stack Engineer At Playroll Entails

We are Playroll, building the infrastructure for a borderless economy where people can work and thrive from anywhere. We take the complexity out of managing a global workforce and bring it into one seamless platform. Through our platform, we provide employer of record, payroll, and benefits services that enable companies to hire and manage people in over 180 countries, without the usual operational, legal, or administrative friction. We're looking for a dynamic, driven engineer to join our engineering team. You'll be an integral part of building and scaling the platform that powers everything we do, helping us deliver one of our most important strategic goals: creating the system that runs global employment at scale.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do

  • Develop and deploy our apps and platform, ensuring adherence to the highest coding, design, and quality standards.
  • Optimize test, release, and deployment processes in collaboration with QA and platform engineering teams.
  • Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into impactful technical solutions for users and clients.
  • Mentor junior developers and actively contribute to strengthening and evolving our engineering culture.
  • Drive continuous improvement by identifying and sharing opportunities to enhance processes, platform performance, and team culture.
Skills & Experience

What You'll Bring

  • Experienced as a senior or mid-level full stack developer, you are passionate about software development and engineering.
  • You embrace a growth mindset, always.
  • You are always looking to develop your technical knowledge and team-based skills.
  • You consistently seek ways to improve products, processes and ways of working and continuously share what you learn with your team.
  • Proficiency in our tech stack: Typescript, React, AWS Lambda, Postgres, CDK, Playwright. Don't worry if you aren't expert in every technology listed - we want to find a person who will be a great fit for and add to our team.
  • You thrive in a dynamic, mission-driven, growth-centric environment.
  • Comfortable with agentic development and embracing AI empowered engineering.
  • Ability and confidence to challenge existing architecture, processes and ways of working and suggest improvements.
  • Confident explaining ideas, solutions and achievements to technical and non-technical audiences, team members and stakeholders.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and an analytical mindset. Data-driven approach
Life at Playroll

Hybrid & Flexible Working

Office or remote, we're a hybrid company! Our current model: 3 days in office, 2 days remote.

Office Perks

Stocked snacks, fresh popcorn, and good coffee. Great work needs great fuel!

Continuous Growth

We invest in your growth through courses, mentorships, and a supportive environment designed to help you grow.

Health & Wellbeing

We contribute to your health insurance so you can stay well and do your best work.

Share Incentives

Through our share incentive plan, you grow as Playroll grows with real ownership in the business you're helping build.

Generous Time Off

Alongside our generous PTO policy, we offer 4 weeks ‘work from anywhere’ every year.

Offsite & Get-Togethers

From annual company offsites to regular team events throughout the year, there's no shortage of moments to connect and celebrate.

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Interview Process
1
Introductory Screening Call
2
Hiring Manager Interview
3
Case Study
4
Value Fit Interview
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