Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Cape Town

The best bit about Red Badger is, of course, the team. We are really proud of our people; we support and learn a lot from each other; we work really hard but have fun doing it. We are a diverse group made up of 22 different nationalities, speaking 17 different languages.

Our 3 founders, Dave, Cain and Stu, who have considerable tech and consultancy experience and still own 100% of the company. We've been consistently profitable and have grown responsibly from the beginning.

In 2025 we have opened an office in Cape Town South Africa. Our HQ is in London by Old Street in the heart of "tech city" and we get thoroughly stuck in with the brilliant community around us. We run several meetups including the hugely popular React London, invite other groups to host their events in our office such as Lua London and Ladies Who Code and speak at events like Digital Shoreditch and LNUG.

We follow a hybrid work approach with 3 days in office, and 2 days working from home every week, with flexibility outside core hours.

The Role

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our digital product delivery function. Red Badger delivers high-quality digital products using a lean delivery process and multidisciplinary, cross-functional teams.

The work we do for our clients involves dealing with the core complexities of their business and the technology we employ varies from project to project.

You are well on your way to having good knowledge and experience in one or more programming languages in both the frontend and backend of the stack, excited to dig deeper into the areas you already know as well as expand your skills into different languages, technologies and practices.

You are passionate about the craft of software development and contribute to technical and non-technical discussions that help shape the direction of digital product delivery. You are able to work independently, as well as collaboratively, on user stories within an agile delivery environment and are versed in modern software delivery practices. You care about creating quality software that meets the needs of our client's vision and goals, in a thoughtfully pragmatic way.

As well as contributing to production-grade code bases, you will also be proactive in working directly with the client to help shape and move the project forward and, where required, helping to upskill and embed good development practices within existing, newly formed or client/Badger blended cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

Discipline Expertise

• Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team of designers, engineers & testers
• Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software
• Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
• Coach & support peers

Agile Ways of Working

• Pair programming with other members of the team, including designers
• Own the delivery of user stories end-to-end working with agile principles
• Actively contribute to agile ceremonies

Consulting with Clients

• Proactively engage with clients to shape and move the project forward
• Upskilling and embedding modern software practices in client teams where necessary

Your Experience

It'd be great if you have experience with:

• Frontend web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, Typescript, CSS, HTML, etc.)
• Backend technologies (e.g. Node.js, Java, Go, Rust, etc.)
• Effective source-control management using Git
• Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing
• Working with lean and agile practices (e.g. Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
• Collaborating in cross-functional teams

It'd be amazing if you can also:

• Work with virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Build, maintain and debug CI/CD pipelines (eg. Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)
• Make use of modern UI data layer technologies (i.e. Relay, GraphQL, Apollo, etc.)
• Understand, debug and help contribute to evolving cloud based architectures (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Work with and debug data storage layer technologies (MySQL, Postgres, BigQuery etc.)
• Support a live system, respond to alerts, diagnose problems using logs and observability tooling, triage and resolve incidents