Senior .NET Backend Engineer — Microservices Leader

Betway Global; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Betway Global is seeking an accomplished Senior Backend Engineer to join our enterprise-scale platform. You will design, build, and optimize microservices using .NET 8+ and C# 12+, ensure robust data access with SQL Server, and guide architectural decisions across teams.

You will lead incident response, post‑mortems, and production improvements while mentoring others and contributing to talent development initiatives. The role emphasizes scalable design, observability, and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software development experience.
• 3+ years in a senior/equivalent role with microservices at enterprise scale.
• Mentorship and architectural impact demonstrated.

Responsibilities

• Lead design discussions and influence architecture without formal authority.
• Own incident response, post-mortems and operational improvements.
• Mentor engineers and drive production readiness initiatives.
• Collaborate on talent development and assessment during recruitment.

Skills

.NET 8+

C# 12+

Microservices

SQL Server

Dapper EF Core

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

Testing automation

SOLID design

Tools

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Azure Service Bus

Job description

Betway Global is seeking an accomplished Senior Backend Engineer to join our enterprise-scale platform. You will design, build, and optimize microservices using .NET 8+ and C# 12+, ensure robust data access with SQL Server, and guide architectural decisions across teams.

You will lead incident response, post‑mortems, and production improvements while mentoring others and contributing to talent development initiatives. The role emphasizes scalable design, observability, and performance tuning.