Senior AI Backend Engineer — Microservices & Cloud

E-Merge; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 863,755 - 1,230,196; Full time

Job summary

E-Merge is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer in South Africa. The ideal candidate has 8 to 10+ years of experience in building production backend systems and deep knowledge in microservices and domain-driven design.

This contract position offers a rate of R760 per hour, negotiable based on experience. Responsibilities include debugging production incidents and making critical technical decisions.

Qualifications

• 8 to 10+ years building and operating production backend systems.
• Deep experience with microservices and architecture patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native systems and DevOps practices.

Skills

Production backend systems

Microservices

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Event-Driven Architecture

CQRS

.Net

C#

Typescript

Go

Node.js

Saga

Circuit Breakers

Clean Architecture

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

E-Merge is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer in South Africa. The ideal candidate has 8 to 10+ years of experience in building production backend systems and deep knowledge in microservices and domain-driven design.

This contract position offers a rate of R760 per hour, negotiable based on experience. Responsibilities include debugging production incidents and making critical technical decisions.