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Build things that actually work.

We're a small, senior team. We don't have a junior layer, a management layer, or a process layer. We have engineers, designers, and strategists who own their work and say what they think.

Why we're here

The company we always wanted to work for.

We have all worked somewhere that put its values on the wall and then quietly broke the people who lived by them. Long hours dressed up as passion. Loyalty that only ran one way. Culture as a poster, not a practice.

We started NextGen partly so we would never have to work somewhere like that again, and partly so no one who joins us would either. This is what we actually believe, and how we actually work.

Our vision

Good ideas should get built. The people who build them should be better for it. Most of the industry manages one of those, on a good day. We are building the company that does both.

Our mission

We put senior people and hard-won experience behind founders who are building something real, and we ship it fast enough to matter. We have built and scaled companies before, so we hand those lessons over instead of letting founders pay for them twice. And we do the work as a small, senior team that says what it thinks and owns what it makes.

What we believe

Senior by default.

There is no junior layer to hide behind, and no one you will never meet. Every person on a project is someone you would want in the room for the hard problem.

Ownership, not tickets.

You own the outcome, not the task. That means understanding why the thing exists, and being willing to say out loud when the plan is wrong.

Plain speech.

We say what we think, to each other and to the people we build for. We do not dress a problem up as a feature, or a delay up as a phase. Honesty is a form of respect.

We don't break people.

High standards and real support are not opposites. We ask a lot, we protect your time and your health, and we mean it when we say you should leave every project sharper than you arrived, not emptier.

We give away the lesson.

We have made the expensive mistakes already. The value is in handing that over, to founders and to each other, not hoarding it. Nobody here protects their standing by keeping other people in the dark.

We build what's next, and we move.

We are built for the AI era, not retrofitted to it, and we would rather ship, learn, and adjust in weeks than plan for a year and be wrong on schedule. The future is being written right now. We intend to hold the pen.

If that sounds like the place you have been looking for, you are probably already one of us.

Come build with us

Think you belong here?

Send us your CV and a few lines on what you build, what you have learned, and what you would want to work on. We read everything.

Open roles

Where you'd fit.

All roles are remote-first. We work across South Africa, the USA, Mauritius, Brazil, and Sri Lanka.

AI & Automation

AI Orchestrator

Senior AI Engineer

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You wire models, tools and agents into products that ship to real users, not demos that die after the pitch. You know where AI earns its place and where it is just decoration.

Automation Architect

Senior Automation Engineer

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You find the boring 80% of a job and make it disappear, on purpose. The best version of this work is invisible, which is exactly the point.

Agent Engineer

AI Agent Engineer

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You build AI agents that do real work and, just as importantly, know when to hand back to a human. You care as much about what happens when the agent is wrong as when it is right.

AI Evaluation Lead

AI Quality & Evaluation Lead

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You prove whether the AI is actually good before a client finds out it is not. Here, healthy scepticism is a job requirement, not a personality flaw.

Applied ML Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You put models where they earn their keep and pull them out where they do not. You would rather ship a simple thing that works than a clever thing that mostly does.

Build

Product Engineer

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You take an idea to live in two weeks and own the outcome, not the ticket. You write code other engineers can read, change and trust.

Legacy Modernization Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, Modernization

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You inherit the codebase nobody wants to touch and make it safe to work in again. You treat someone else's ten-year-old code with more patience than they did.

Platform & Reliability Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer / SRE

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You make sure what shipped on Friday is still standing on Monday. When everything is quiet, that is you doing your job well.

Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You turn messy, half-true data into something a product can actually rely on. You know the pipeline matters more than the dashboard sitting on top of it.

Mobile Engineer

Senior Mobile Engineer

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You build apps that feel native and keep working on a bad connection in a lift. Polish is not optional here, it is the product.

Front-End Mobile App Developer

Front-End & Mobile App Developer

Full-timeHybrid (Johannesburg)

You own the interface users actually touch — React Native for iOS and Android, ReactJS for web, and the AI-backed surfaces on top of both. Based in or near Johannesburg for hybrid on-site work.

Quality Engineer

Senior QA / Test Engineer

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You find it before the user does, then make sure it stays found. You take a quiet pleasure in breaking things people were sure were finished.

Security Engineer

Application Security Engineer

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You think like the person trying to get in, so that nobody actually does. You would rather have the awkward conversation now than the breach later.

Web Developer

Senior Web Developer

Full-timeRemote (Global, SA time-zone overlap)

You build websites that load fast, rank well and quietly sell. You own the build end to end — architecture, performance, SEO and the handover — and treat a website as a product with a job, not a brochure with a URL.

Design

Product Designer

Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You design for the action, not the award. You care more about what a user does next than how the screenshot looks in a portfolio.

Design Engineer

Design Engineer (Front-End)

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You design it and then build it, so nothing gets lost in the handoff. The gap between Figma and production is where you live.

Conversion Designer

Conversion-Focused Web Designer

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You build the page that turns a visitor into a signup, and you can show the numbers that prove it did. Pretty is welcome, as long as it converts.

Growth & Digital

Marketing Engineer

Marketing Engineer / MarTech

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You tie spend to revenue, not motion. You build the systems that make marketing measurable instead of hopeful.

AI-Search Strategist

SEO & GEO Strategist

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You get brands cited by AI, not just ranked on Google. You are already thinking about the answer that now sits above the ten blue links.

Growth Engineer

Growth Engineer

Full-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You build the funnel, the tracking and the experiments, then read the results honestly, including the ones that did not work. Curiosity beats ego here.

Content & Narrative Lead

Content & Narrative Lead

Contract / Part-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You make dry B2B sound like a human wrote it, because one did. You can explain a complicated product without putting anyone to sleep.

Sales

Junior Sales Representative

Junior Sales Representative

Full-timeRemote (SA)

You are the first voice a prospect hears. You find them, earn the conversation, and hand them to a senior team member ready to buy. Basic plus uncapped commission, paid on results that actually land.

Strategy & Delivery

Founder Partner

Product Strategist

Contract / Part-timeRemote (SA / Global)

You sit beside founders, tell them the truth, and turn a vision into something an engineer can build and an investor can back. You have built or run a product, so you know the difference between what users say and what they actually do.

Africa GTM Partner

Go-To-Market Partner, Africa

Full-timeRemote (Africa focus)

You put a trusted local team behind products entering African markets, and you actually sell, not just open doors. You know credibility on the ground is the whole game, and a fly-in team cannot fake it.