Senior Fullstack Engineer (TypeScript, Supabase, SQL, AI-assisted)

About the role

A global investment advisory firm focused on long-term value creation is hiring a Senior Fullstack Engineer in Cape Town, working in a hybrid or remote setup. The client is large, offers strong career development and invests heavily in employee wellness and benefits. The role uses a Supabase and TypeScript stack and involves coordinating with EU-based colleagues.

Key responsibilities

• Design and maintain backend and full-stack features using a Supabase and TypeScript stack.
• Work across greenfield and brownfield systems, balancing new development with extending production code.
• Manage end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and implement authentication via Microsoft Entra ID.
• Use Claude Code as a core tool to speed up delivery and keep code quality high.
• Coordinate with EU-based stakeholders and engineers through strong asynchronous communication.
• Contribute to technical decisions, engineering processes and standards as the organisation grows.

Required profile

• 5 to 7+ years of development experience.
• Proven track record of designing and maintaining end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions; simply operating existing pipelines is not enough.
• Demonstrated use of Claude Code or Gemini, Co-Pilot or equivalent.
• Strong written and verbal communication, as daily collaboration between South Africa and Europe is required.

Required skills

• TypeScript and relational databases (SQL)
• Supabase
• GitHub Actions and CI/CD
• Claude Code (or Gemini, Co-Pilot or equivalent)

Nice to have: Jira or similar automation, MCP servers, experience in regulated industries such as financial services or private equity, and prior work in distributed teams.