Senior Backend Java Engineer - Fully Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + bonus

Fully remote

Health/dental/vision insurance

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a highly experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer with a strong command of Java to join our fully remote team. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems powering critical business operations and contribute to robust architectures.

Collaborate with frontend, product, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions, implement RESTful APIs, optimize performance, and ensure code quality through thorough testing and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong Java ecosystem knowledge including Spring Boot and Hibernate.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Create and maintain RESTful APIs with high performance.
• Optimize queries and overall system architecture.
• Write clean, well-documented, thoroughly tested code.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, and other stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in production and development environments.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Hibernate

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Microservices

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

JPA/Hibernate

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a highly experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer with a strong command of Java to join our fully remote team. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems powering critical business operations and contribute to robust architectures.

Collaborate with frontend, product, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions, implement RESTful APIs, optimize performance, and ensure code quality through thorough testing and