Remote Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Platform Architect

Placements24; Centurion; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Health insurance

Paid time off

Professional development budget

Job summary

Placements24 is recruiting a Lead Software Engineer to steer the design and delivery of a cloud-native platform. You will lead a team, define standards, and collaborate with product and architecture stakeholders to drive scalable, secure services.

You will mentor engineers, oversee deployments, and champion DevOps, CI/CD, and testing best practices in a remote-first South African environment.”

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software development, incl. 3+ years in lead/principal role
• Experience designing and building distributed systems and microservices
• Deep cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Proficiency in Go/Java/Python/Node.js
• Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• CI/CD experience and automated testing
• Solid SQL/NoSQL DB knowledge
• Agile development experience

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development and deployment of scalable microservices on cloud platforms
• Define and enforce coding standards, architecture principles
• Mentor engineers and guide technical growth
• Collaborate with product managers and architects
• Drive DevOps adoption, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of the cloud platform
• Conduct code reviews and performance tuning
• Shape the technical roadmap and technology choices
• Foster continuous improvement and innovation

Skills

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud platforms

Go

Java

Python

Node.js

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelors

Masters

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

Placements24 is recruiting a Lead Software Engineer to steer the design and delivery of a cloud-native platform. You will lead a team, define standards, and collaborate with product and architecture stakeholders to drive scalable, secure services.

You will mentor engineers, oversee deployments, and champion DevOps, CI/CD, and testing best practices in a remote-first South African environment.”