Contract Senior Software Engineer
Cape Townonsitesenior
via Greenhouse
About this role
UK-based financial services company
Join a cross-functional team (approx. 8)
Project involves building features and functionality for a payment services platform
Kotlin backend, NodeJS and React frontend
Platform engineering, software engineering, and product delivery experience required
Start date Mid-late June 2026
2 days/week in office (Century City, Cape Town)
Ability to go permanent available
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 comprising 22 nationalities, speaking 17 languages.
Our 3 founders, Dave, Cain and Stu, who have considerable tech and consultancy experience, still own 100% of the company.…
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