Remote Senior Software Architect for Scalable Systems

Placements24; Midrand; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Private health insurance

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Placements24 invites a Senior Software Architect to join a fully remote team serving South Africa. You will define the technical vision, design scalable, resilient software systems, and mentor engineers to ensure high-quality delivery.

You will drive API and microservices design, lead architectural decisions, review technologies, and contribute to roadmap while fostering a remote-friendly engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of software development experience, with 3+ years in a senior architect/lead role.
• Experience designing and building complex distributed systems (microservices, event-driven).
• Expertise designing APIs and microservices with cloud and containerization knowledge.
• Strong SDLC, CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps mindset.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and document scalable, high-performance software systems.
• Lead technical design of features, aligning with architecture strategy.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and stakeholders to define requirements.
• Evaluate new technologies and tools to improve development lifecycle.
• Set coding standards and design patterns; conduct code reviews.
• Mentor junior engineers and architects on technical decisions.
• Address technical debt and performance bottlenecks.
• Contribute to strategic tech roadmap and technology stack planning.
• Promote a culture of quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Support remote team collaboration and architectural governance.

Skills

Problem-solving

Analytical thinking

Critical thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Placements24 invites a Senior Software Architect to join a fully remote team serving South Africa. You will define the technical vision, design scalable, resilient software systems, and mentor engineers to ensure high-quality delivery.

You will drive API and microservices design, lead architectural decisions, review technologies, and contribute to roadmap while fostering a remote-friendly engineering culture.