Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Microservices & Cloud

Placements24; Benoni; Hybrid; ZAR 1,601,000 - 2,401,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global remote work

Health insurance

Professional growth

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain microservices-based systems in a fully remote role. You will work across distributed teams to deliver scalable, high-performance backend services that power our platform.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in backend development, strong experience with Java/Go/Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud CI/CD, and a passion for clean architecture, testing, and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software development experience with a focus on microservices architectures.
• Experience designing distributed systems and managing complex data models.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Java, Go, Python, or Node.js).
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable microservices.
• Implement and manage robust APIs (RESTful, GraphQL).
• Optimize performance, queries, and architecture for scalability and reliability.
• Write clean, well-documented, tested code and participate in code reviews.
• Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and product managers to deliver features.
• Troubleshoot production issues to ensure high availability.

Skills

Backend development

Microservices

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Spring Boot

Flask

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain microservices-based systems in a fully remote role. You will work across distributed teams to deliver scalable, high-performance backend services that power our platform.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in backend development, strong experience with Java/Go/Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud CI/CD, and a passion for clean architecture, testing, and collaboration.