Overview
Senior Product Engineer Jobs in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa at MSA Outsourcing Solutions
Title: Senior Product Engineer
Company: MSA Outsourcing Solutions
Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
MSA Outsourcing Solutions – UK is seeking an experienced engineer who will join one of our UK clients — someone who can sit with a business stakeholder, understand a vague problem, ask the right questions, and translate it into a working solution. You'll be the bridge between business and engineering: refining requirements, shaping scope, making sensible technical trade-offs, and shipping the result. You should be equally comfortable in a stakeholder conversation and a code review.
Requirements
- Work directly with business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into clear specs and shipped features
- Own features end-to-end — from ambiguous problem statement, through scoping, to production
- Build and maintain a React frontend and Supabase backend
- Push back constructively when requirements don't make sense, and propose better alternatives
- Make sensible architecture and technical decisions, with a bias toward simplicity and shipping
- Mentor and review work from other engineers when needed
- Help us evolve the product, not just maintain it
- 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience, including a meaningful stretch as a founding engineer, tech lead, or one of the first hires at a small startup
- Strong React with TypeScript and modern patterns
- Demonstrable experience with Supabase, or Postgres plus equivalent BaaS (Firebase, Hasura) that you'd transfer quickly
- A portfolio of products you've shipped — ideally with stories about features where you defined the problem yourself, not just the solution
- Excellent written and spoken English — you'll be in stakeholder conversations regularly
- Comfortable working with non-technical people: translating jargon, asking clarifying questions, sketching solutions on whiteboards (or Miro)
- Self-directed and able to operate with significant autonomy
Strongly Preferred:
- Experience running customer interviews, product discovery sessions, or stakeholder workshops
- Prior experience as a solo or near-solo engineer on a real product with users
- A track record of saying "we shouldn't build that" with a sound reason — and being right
- Public writing, talks, or open-source contributions — anything showing thought leadership
- Next.js, Tailwind, Supabase Edge Functions
- Background in [INSERT YOUR DOMAIN — e.g., logistics, fintech, B2B SaaS]
- Formal product management or BA experience earlier in career