Senior Backend Engineer: Scale Systems & Mentor Engineers

Placements24

Polokwane

On-site

ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Placements24 in Polokwane is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems powering key applications. You will collaborate with product managers, frontend developers, and QA engineers to deliver high-quality software in an office-based environment.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of backend development experience, strong knowledge of modern backend languages, databases, cloud platforms, and containerization with Docker/Kubernetes.

Qualifications

5+ years of professional experience in backend software development.
Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language (e.g., Java, Python, Go, Node.js) and associated frameworks.
Solid understanding of relational and non-relational databases, ORMs, and database design principles.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using relevant programming languages and frameworks.
Optimize application performance, database queries, and system architecture for reliability and efficiency.
Write clean, well-documented, and thoroughly tested code, participating actively in code reviews.

Skills

Backend language

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL/NoSQL databases

ORMs

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of backend development experience, strong knowledge of modern backend languages, databases, cloud platforms, and containerization with Docker/Kubernetes.

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