Remote Senior Backend Architect for Scalable Systems

Placements24; LegKraal Gate; Híbrido; ZAR 2 538 000 - 3 553 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Competitive salary & bonus

Health insurance

Stock options / equity

Flexible remote hours

Professional development budget

Remote-first culture

Resumo da oferta

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Software Architect to lead the design and development of scalable backend systems for a growing e-commerce platform. This remote-first role emphasizes asynchronous collaboration, high performance, and architectural excellence across microservices, APIs, and data services.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, evaluate technologies, and partner with product teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions, ensuring security and reliability.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years in professional software development with 3+ years in senior architecture.
• Proven experience designing complex microservices and distributed systems.
• Strong backend tech skills across languages and frameworks, API design (REST/GraphQL).

Responsabilidades

• Lead design and architecture of scalable backend systems (microservices and APIs).
• Define architectural standards, best practices and patterns.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure architectural integrity.
• Evaluate technologies, frameworks, and tools for backend development.
• Mentor junior engineers and architects to promote technical excellence.
• Conduct architectural and code reviews and performance analyses.
• Address technical debt, scalability challenges, and bottlenecks.
• Work with product management to translate business needs into designs.
• Ensure security, reliability, and maintainability of backend services.
• Contribute to tooling and infrastructure improvements.

Conhecimentos

Backend architecture

Microservices

Distributed systems

REST APIs

GraphQL

Cloud platforms

Containerization

Remote collaboration

Formação académica

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Engineering

Ferramentas

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Software Architect to lead the design and development of scalable backend systems for a growing e-commerce platform. This remote-first role emphasizes asynchronous collaboration, high performance, and architectural excellence across microservices, APIs, and data services.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, evaluate technologies, and partner with product teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions, ensuring security and reliability.