Senior .NET Engineer: Scalable Backend & Cloud

Dijkstrack Ltd.; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Dijkstrack in South Africa is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with strong C#/.NET expertise to join our growing engineering team. You’ll work on enterprise-scale applications and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software that solves real business challenges.

This hands-on role involves influencing technical decisions, mentoring junior engineers, building RESTful services, and contributing across the full development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of commercial software development experience.
• Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• Based in South Africa.
• South African citizen or holds current PR.
• Work remotely from anywhere in South Africa.
• Permanent employment with long-term career growth.
• International projects using modern technologies.
• Collaborative, supportive engineering culture.
• Opportunities to work across industries and solve meaningful technical challenges.
• Continuous learning and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain high-quality software applications.
• Build scalable backend services and APIs.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Developers and QA Engineers.
• Lead architecture discussions and technical design decisions.
• Review code and drive engineering best practices across the team.
• Troubleshoot, optimise and improve existing systems.
• Contribute throughout the full software development lifecycle.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

RESTful APIs

SQL

Agile methodologies

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Dijkstrack in South Africa is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with strong C#/.NET expertise to join our growing engineering team. You’ll work on enterprise-scale applications and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software that solves real business challenges.

This hands-on role involves influencing technical decisions, mentoring junior engineers, building RESTful services, and contributing across the full development lifecycle.