Careers at This Is 42

Build what matters — and keep ownership of your craft.

We're a senior-leaning, outcome-obsessed product squad. If you care about turning messy ideas into software that ships, scales, and stays healthy, you'll feel at home here.

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Why Join Us ?

What you getHow we do it
End-to-end ownershipYou sit in the same pod from whiteboard to production pager. No "throw-over-the-wall" moments.
Small, senior teamsAverage XP 11 yrs. You pair with other principals, not layers of middle-management.
Flexible work, real lifeRemote-first, Pretoria drop-in studio for those who like whiteboards & good coffee. Core hours 10 h–15 h SAST.
Continuous learning10 % time for OSS, courses or certs. Company foots the bill for one major exam a year.
Transparent profit-shareQuarterly bonus when EBIT margin > 15 %. Everyone sees the same numbers.
Purpose & impactFrom WhatsApp benefits to AI onboarding, we ship products that reduce admin toil and broaden access.
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Open Roles (June 2025)

TitleSquad / StackTL;DR
Senior Front-End EngineerForge 42 – SvelteKit • LWC • TailwindOwn component libraries, Storybook, performance budgets.
Integration ArchitectSalesforce & Custom – MuleSoft • Kafka • SAPDesign event meshes, bulk-safe data flows, security patterns.
SRE / DevOps EngineerBase 42 – Fly.io • AWS • TerraformKeep p95 < 300 ms, automate blue/green, tune cost per request.

Not seeing your craft? We're always keen to meet polyglot problem-solvers. Drop a speculative application.

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Our Hiring Flow (2–3 weeks)

Application

CV or LinkedIn + 3-bullet "proudest wins".

30-min culture chat

meet a founder, talk about goals.

Technical deep-dive

real project walk-through or pairing on a repo (no leetcode).

Offer or feedback

within 48 h of final chat.

We believe good interviews feel like collaboration, not interrogation.

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Benefits & Perks

  • Equipment grant — pick your rig (Mac, Linux, or custom PC).
  • Remote stipend — R1 500 / month for fibre, coffee, co-working.
  • Health — Discovery Classic saver + optional gap cover.
  • Leave — 20 days PTO + 5 days paid volunteer.
  • Parental — 12 weeks fully paid primary-carer leave.
  • Retreats — bi-annual maker week & off-site—recently: Drakensberg code-camp.
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Life in the Pod

“No one hides behind tickets. You design a BPMN task on Monday, code it Wednesday, demo it Friday, and get user feedback the next week.”

— Daniel, UX Lead

Slack channels you'll live in: #squad-forge-main, #ops-incident-triage, and the legendary #latte-art-ratings.

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What We Look For

  • Bias-to-action — prefer prototypes over PowerPoints.
  • Senior mindset — can mentor others and still ship code.
  • Craft pride — tests, docs, accessibility baked in.
  • Curiosity — new tech, but also the business problem behind it.
  • Humility & humour — blameless RCAs and meme-filled retros.
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Apply Now

Ready to build things worth bragging about? Send a short intro, your CV and links to work you're proud of.

Apply for a role or e-mail careers@thisis42.com