Senior Backend Engineer - Core APIs & SRE (Remote)

Jobgether; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Global team

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus) based in South Africa. You will build core APIs and real-time data services, own reliability metrics, and operate production systems at scale in a remote, globally distributed team.

You’ll mentor peers, improve observability, and drive automated operational work while shaping cost-efficient, high-performance backend architectures.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience and production systems.
• Strong SRE practices: error budgets, capacity planning, production readiness.
• Hands-on Go and/or Node.js with Docker/Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with scalable backend systems and relational/non-relational data stores.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize high-performance backend services.
• Define and own SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for core APIs.
• Build observability with metrics, logs, tracing, and alerts.
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead post-incident reviews.
• Automate operational tasks and drive capacity planning and tuning.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain platform reliability.

Skills

Go

Node.js

SQL

Distributed systems

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

ClickHouse

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus) based in South Africa. You will build core APIs and real-time data services, own reliability metrics, and operate production systems at scale in a remote, globally distributed team.

You’ll mentor peers, improve observability, and drive automated operational work while shaping cost-efficient, high-performance backend architectures.