Senior AI Platform Backend Engineer (Remote)

Placements24; Vereeniging; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Remote-first environment

Career development opportunities

Stock options or equity may be offered

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Placements24 client in Vereeniging, Gauteng is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale an AI platform. You will design backend services, orchestration, and tooling to empower data scientists and ML engineers.

Join a remote-first team, collaborate across ML researchers, and influence architecture and technology choices while delivering high-performance systems that accelerate AI development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or related field.
• 5+ years of backend software development experience.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and ML lifecycle.
• Experience with cloud platforms and containerization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and scale AI platform backend services.
• Build and optimize ML training, deployment, and monitoring infrastructure.
• Develop APIs and tooling to streamline ML workflows.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate models into production.
• Apply CI/CD, testing, and code review best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

ML lifecycle

Python

Go

Java

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Placements24 client in Vereeniging, Gauteng is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale an AI platform. You will design backend services, orchestration, and tooling to empower data scientists and ML engineers.

Join a remote-first team, collaborate across ML researchers, and influence architecture and technology choices while delivering high-performance systems that accelerate AI development.