Senior Development Engineer (Data)
AnyVanRemovals and company
Cape Town, South AfricaSenior
Vitruvian Partners
Celer Investments
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Build systems that move the real world, with AI at the core.
- •Join AnyVan to build sophisticated logistics optimization platforms using AI and machine learning.
- •Key Responsibilities Design, build, and operate production-grade systems that scale.
- •Tackle complex technical challenges across backend, infrastructure, data flows, and AI/ML pipelines.
- •Write clean, pragmatic, well-tested code with long-term maintainability in mind.
- •Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to shape solutions.
- •Champion testing, observability, and quality improvements.
- •Requirements Experience in a scale-up or fast-growing product environment.
- •Strong backend engineering skills (Go, Java, Python, or similar).
- •A solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and performance.
- •Experience with CI/CD, modern deployment practices, and cloud infrastructure.
- •Comfort working with ambiguity and evolving requirements.
- •A bias toward action
- •shipping value quickly, then iterating.
- •A collaborative mindset and the ability to influence beyond your code.
- •Bonus: exposure to AI/ML systems, marketplaces, logistics, pricing, or e-commerce.
Required skills
PythonVue.jsTypeScriptGoJavaCI/CDKubernetesDockerPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBApache Kafka
Nice-to-have skills
NLPLLMsHugging Face
Domain expertise
logistics
Benefits & perks
Competitive Salary, Generous Time Off, Health & Wellbeing, Future Ready, Easy Travel, Daily Perks, Culture & Community, Career Growth
Tech stack
PythonVue.jsTypeScriptGoRustReactNode.jsJavaPHPAngularAWSCI/CDKubernetesDockerPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBApache KafkaApache FlinkAirflowdbtPandasNumPySparkTableauPower BILooker