Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Distributed Systems & Cloud

dearx; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 1,100,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangement

Job summary

dearx is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join a large-scale financial technology environment. You will work on business-critical, high-volume systems, focusing on end-to-end architecture beyond CRUD, including APIs, databases, messaging, and production operations.

You will design, implement and optimise scalable distributed applications, collaborate across backend and frontend, and mentor other engineers while contributing to architecture decisions and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of commercial software development.
• Full-stack software development experience.
• Java/JVM technologies (heavy preference).
• Distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• REST APIs and system integration.
• Event-driven architecture and messaging.
• Kafka is highly advantageous.
• Strong SQL and relational DB knowledge.
• Observability, monitoring and incident handling.
• Cloud (AWS/Azure) experience.
• Docker and Kubernetes familiarity.
• CI/CD and automated testing.
• Software design principles and clean architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable, resilient distributed applications.
• Work across backend and frontend development.
• Develop and integrate REST APIs and microservices.
• Work with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms.
• Design and optimise databases, queries and logic.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and observability.
• Build and optimise systems handling high transaction volumes.
• Contribute to architectural and technical design decisions.
• Develop clean, maintainable and reusable code.
• Implement automated testing and CI/CD practices.
• Work with cloud and containerised environments.
• Participate in code reviews and engineering standards.
• Mentor developers and raise the team's capability.

Skills

Java/JVM

Distributed systems

Microservices

REST APIs

Kafka

SQL

Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Production troubleshooting

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

dearx is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join a large-scale financial technology environment. You will work on business-critical, high-volume systems, focusing on end-to-end architecture beyond CRUD, including APIs, databases, messaging, and production operations.

You will design, implement and optimise scalable distributed applications, collaborate across backend and frontend, and mentor other engineers while contributing to architecture decisions and DevOps practices.