PlatformXe is freeing African developers from the infrastructure tax — a dozen vendor integrations replaced by one SDK that handles messaging, identity, authorization, storage, and a typed event bus. Simple. Effective. Priced locally. Join the team building the tools that let builders focus on product, not pipes.
Why work here
We're a small infrastructure team building distributed systems that real apps depend on. No moats around what you can touch, no walls between engineering and product.
Production runs on self-hosted Postgres (Contabo) — no Neon, no Vercel-lock-in. You'll learn how to operate infrastructure the way the rest of the world used to before the serverless escape hatch.
@caldera/events is our internal pub/sub spine — every state change emits a typed event, every workflow chains them. Event-driven systems aren't academic here; they're the architecture.
We price and bill in NGN, GHS, KES, ZAR — and route around the global platforms that penalise scaling out of Africa. The product is for the continent, the team is on the continent.
Postgres, Drizzle, Next.js, Mux, lucide-react. No proprietary lock-in. If you can read the source, you can fix the bug — and we encourage it. We ship our own SDKs to npm + GitLab.
The people shipping the code shape the spec. No PM-handover wall — you investigate the problem, draft the solution, ship it, and own the incident response if it breaks at 2am.
Permissions, events, identity, payments — federated across the Caldera apps. You'll touch real distributed systems with real production traffic, not toy patterns from a side project.
Roles
We have 2 open roles right now. Find the one that matches your skills and ambitions.
We're growing the infrastructure surface every quarter and new positions open regularly. Send us a short note about what you've shipped and what you'd want to build next — we read every message.