The posting
WE ARE BASH
Bash is South Africa's largest omnichannel shopping platform. We connect over 500 brands across the physical and digital world, for millions of South Africans, every day. We're building something with real scale and real consequence.
We're founder led, a team of true owners and humble learners. We work hard, hold a high bar, and show up for each other. The problems aren't easy and the pace is real but when you break through, the impact is felt across the business and by the customers who rely on us.
If that sounds like the kind of place where you'd do the best work of your career, we'd like to meet you.
Four teams, one mission: Logistics · Order Management · Fulfillment · Internal Apps
Every order placed on Bash online, or through one of TFG's stores - runs through the systems this team owns. Getting a parcel from add to cart and into the customer's hands means wrestling with inventory that changes by the millisecond, warehouses that have to pick and pack the right thing, and a courier network (including our own, BashDelivery) that has to route it efficiently. Then someone wants to return it, and you do it all again in reverse.
It's a genuinely hard distributed-systems problem dressed up as "retail." That's the part we like, and everything needs to be able to operate at Black Friday scale, all the time.
We're hiring Senior Go Engineers across various teams
You'll be placed where your strengths and interests line up best:
- Order Management - orchestrating the order through its entire lifecycle, from checkout reservation to handoff, keeping state consistent across systems that don't always agree with each other.
- Fulfillment - the pick-and-pack brains behind our warehouses and hubs, plus the integrations with the warehouse and carrier systems that move stock in the real world.
- Logistics - routing, tracking, and delivery, including BashDelivery, our in-house courier.
- Internal Apps (aka “Supply Chain Applications”) - This team builds the front-ends used by store, warehouse, and hub staff, nationwide. As a Go engineer in this team you’ll build backends hand-in-hand with the Flutter engineers building the front-ends.
What you'd actually work on
- Real-time stock and reservation systems where being correct and being fast are both non-negotiable, regardless of the system load. Expect to see thousands of orders per hour.
- Event-driven services that keep order state in sync across warehouses, carriers, and third-party logistics platforms. We use Kafka and Temporal extensively.
- Integrations with messy external systems (couriers, WMS, partners) - the kind that don't have clean APIs and don't care about your sprint.
- Tooling and operational systems that store and warehouse staff actually use every day, so the feedback loop is short and very real. Millions of parcels a year flow through our hubs.
The Stack
Go is our primary backend language, and we mean it - this isn't a "we have one Go service" job. Around it: AWS, Kubernetes, and a strong observability culture (you build it, you can see it, you own it). Internal tools and admin surfaces are built in Retool, and we plan and track work in Linear. You won't be reaching for new tech for its own sake, but you also won't be fighting a decade of legacy to ship something sensible.
You'll fit well if you have
- 5+ years building production backend systems, primarily in Go (or you're a strong engineer in another language who's genuinely keen to go deep on Go).
- Solid instincts for databases, data structures, and algorithms, and a real interest in distributed systems - consistency, failure modes, and what happens at 2am when one node disagrees with the rest.
- Comfort owning your services end-to-end: writing them, deploying them on AWS and Kubernetes, and being the person who knows how they behave in production.
- A bias toward observability and monitoring - you'd rather know than guess.
- Strong written and verbal communication, because the hard part of Supply Chain is rarely the code in isolation; it's the seams between teams and systems.
- You’re comfortable leveraging agentic coding tools, but you still read and validate everything “you” commit.
- A BSc in Computer Science (or equivalent) is a nice-to-have, not a gate. Strong, demonstrable experience speaks louder.
How we work
We're a cross-functional, Agile team, but we care less about ceremony than about how engineers actually operate day to day:
- You own your work. Senior here means you remove ambiguity from your own tickets, shape the solution, and drive it to done - not wait to be told.
- You build to last. Resilient, maintainable, observable. You hold a high bar on testing and code review, and you lift it by example, so the team ships solutions that don't page anyone six months from now.
- You share the load. That includes pitching in on operational work and an on-call rotation for critical alerts - because the people who built the systems are the people best placed to keep them healthy. We take on-call seriously and we don't make it miserable.
- You build relationships with other engineers, product managers, and the wider org. The best supply-chain engineers are the ones people want in the room.
- You make the team better. Senior is a leadership level here. You mentor without being asked, spot gaps and bring solutions, and set a technical bar others want to meet.
We ask a few optional demographic questions to monitor fairness in hiring and comply with South Africa’s Employment Equity requirements. Your responses are confidential - stored separately from your application and never shown to hiring panels. We review the data only in aggregate to strengthen our sourcing so pipelines are diverse and all candidates receive equitable support. You can skip any question.
JOINING THE BASH TEAM
We believe in autonomy and self-driven individuals who thrive within some uncertainty so that they can fill those gaps with their uniqueness. The qualities that allow you to thrive are curiosity, proactivity and a bias to action. If you are these things, joining the Bash team will catapult your career and ensure you do the best work, pushing past your preconceived boundaries.
We don't believe in padding this section with things that sound good on paper. Here's what working at Bash actually looks like:
BASH PERKS
The people around you. We hire to a high standard, and you'll feel it. The talent at Bash will push your thinking, raise your game, and genuinely surprise you.
Real growth. A place that expands what you're capable of. You'll own more, stretch further, and build in ways a traditional corporate can't offer.
Top-of-market pay. The best people, in the right roles, earning at the top tier.
Time that's yours. We are flexible and don't measure time. We look at output.
Shopping perks. An exclusive discount across 500+ brands in-store and on bash.com.
