Systems Developer

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Job Ref

1959001609

Date posted

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Location

Port Elizabeth, South Africa

SUMMARY

POSITION INFO

You'll work across the full stack to build and operate the platform that asset and wealth managers rely on every day. Responsibilities: Data Management & Governance Applications Building and maintaining the data pipelines and instrument schema that underpin every other workflow. This includes custom integrations with management companies, administrators, and platforms; LLM-enhanced instrument mapping; and ensuring data is interoperable, available, and trustworthy across the business. Portfolio Rebalance & Compliance Applications Developing the systems that monitor portfolios against mandated rules and regulatory requirements, and that support trade construction, pre trade checks, and post-trade verification. The work spans API-first integrations with order management systems and external administrators. Regulatory Reporting Applications & Workflows Building scalable reporting capabilities from industry-standard reports, regulatory submissions, to custom reports for clients, DFMs and platforms. Designing report generation to be reproducible, auditable, and fast. Requirements: 1–3 years software development experience Related tertiary qualification Strong backend and frontend engineering fundamentals Comfortable working across the stack and learning new tools quickly Curiosity about asset management, fintech, or both Strong written and verbal communication Protobufs — schema definition language for all data contracts gRPC / gRPC Web — transport layer between services and to the browser Go (Golang) — primary backend language Vue & TypeScript — primary frontend framework Cloud-native infrastructure — Google Cloud Platform LLM-enhanced workflows — selectively applied where they earn their keep Advantageous: Experience with Go, TypeScript, or gRPC Exposure to financial services, fund administration, or regtech Prior work with cloud-native architectures (GCP, AWS, or Azure) Please consider your application unsuccessful should you nor receive a response within 2 weeks of applying.