Senior Frontend Engineer – TurnStay (Cape Town / Hybrid)

At TurnStay, we’re building the payment rails that power global travel. We help hotels, lodges, and operators get paid faster, cheaper, and with less friction; so they can spend more time on hospitality and less on admin. Payments may sound simple, but at scale, across borders and currencies, it’s one of the hardest and most interesting engineering problems out there.

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer (5+ years experience) to join our small, focused team. This isn’t a “big corp” role full of meetings and process. We keep things lean, outside of daily standup, most of your day is yours to design, code, and ship.

What makes this role different

Shape the experience: We’re still early. How we present our product to customers is being defined now. You’ll have a direct hand in creating our design system, UX flows, and embeddable components.

Real product impact: You won’t be pixel-pushing screens someone else decided. You’ll work directly with backend engineers and product leads to figure out the best way to make payments intuitive and trustworthy for our users.

Balance of speed and craft: We want to move quickly, but never at the cost of usability or maintainability. Clean, accessible, well-structured interfaces matter.

Deep domain exposure: Payments are complex, and our UI needs to make that complexity disappear for end users. You’ll gain valuable insight into fintech and the global travel industry.

What you’ll work with

• React + Next.js for our customer-facing apps

• Tailwind CSS and a growing design system for consistency

• TypeScript for safe, modern development

• Building both Payment Pages (in production) and Merchant Dashboard (in development)

• Designing for embeddable components (e.g. checkout forms)

• Integrating with Python/FastAPI backend APIs

What we offer

• Competitive pay (R60k–R100k per month, brackets flexible for experience)

• Hybrid work (3 days in-office, Cape Town)

• Small, nimble team where smart ideas win over hierarchy

• A chance to help shape the future of how travel businesses get paid

If you’re the kind of engineer who likes building intuitive experiences, tackling tricky product challenges, and working in small teams where your work really matters, we’d love to talk.