Application Architect
LabourNet|Posted 6 days ago
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We're expanding the LabourNet Platform and seeking an Application Architect who thrives at the intersection of architectural vision and hands-on delivery. This isn't a traditional ivory-tower role—you'll be embedded directly within our delivery squads, turning product intent into practical, well-sized solutions. You'll design real architectures including service boundaries, data models, events, and API contracts, then prove them through reference implementations and spikes on our actual stack. Your remuneration and level will reflect your experience, and you'll work with a modern technology foundation including Angular 21+, Quarkus 3.33+, PostgreSQL 18+, and Azure Container Apps. You'll own the technical quality and evolution of our platform by making governance enforceable rather than bureaucratic. This means capturing decisions as ADRs with clear triggers, wiring architectural standards into CI as automated fitness functions, and ensuring cross-cutting concerns like security, performance, and scalability are testable expectations. You'll review architecturally significant pull requests, contribute production code when it's the fastest path to de-risk decisions, and help us thoughtfully migrate legacy systems (Java 8/Vaadin/TomEE) toward our modern stack. Your expertise with cloud-native design, event-driven architecture, and the JVM ecosystem will directly shape our platform's future. We value architects who grow teams rather than gatekeep knowledge. You'll coach engineers and tech leads, transferring architectural thinking throughout the organization. You'll also play a key role in shaping our roadmap by surfacing technical risk, debt, and sequencing considerations to keep product and platform planning grounded in reality. We're looking for someone with strong JVM backend experience (Quarkus, Spring Boot, or similar), meaningful modern frontend depth with Angular or comparable frameworks, and practical cloud-native experience on Azure or transferable skills from AWS/GCP. If you have a bachelor's degree in IT, exposure to Agile methodologies, and ideally some background in payroll/HR or financial services, we'd love to hear from you.
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About LabourNet
What do we do?
The trusted compliance partner to employers, solving their evolving compliance needs. We provide Leading compliance solutions through-out South Africa that implement best practices within the businesses we partner with.
We ensure ultimate compliance of your business throughout the entire employee life cycle by facilitating HR best practice!
The PSIber technology is that of the design, development and delivery of PSIberWORKS suite. The application services all types and sizes of organisations from the simple home user (for domestic workers payslips), to SMME’s and sophisticated corporates who process in excess of 10 000 employees online at any one time.
The core product is a robust, world-class, innovative, integrated, fully legislatively compliant, Payroll HR technology platform for any type or size company.
Our Culture
Our culture is centred on passion, our product, our people and our team is passionate about:
- TECHNOLOGY - building technology that is SIMPLE to use, STANDARDISED (aligned to best practice) and AUTOMATED.
- HUMAN CAPITAL- knowing that they are the key to the success of our business.
- Maintaining a world class reputation of being the best HCM service provider.
- EMPOWERING Human Capital to work their best, using our technology to become strategic assets to the businesses they own, manage or work for.
- SIMPLIFYING the management and admin to ensure our client's business is LEGISLATIVELY COMPLIANT.
- CRAVING success, especially our employee’s success and empowering and driving our clients and their success.
Perks at LabourNet
Tech Stack
utilities
dev ops
business tool
application and data
