Senior Backend Engineer: Scale Systems & Mentor Engineers

Placements24; Polokwane; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Paid time off

Career development

Collaborative team

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

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.