Technology Domain Specialist - Junior

Boardroom Appointments; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a hands-on Senior Backend Architect to lead design and architecture of large-scale backend applications. You will drive performance, scalability and delivery across a globally distributed, remote-first team.

The role requires strong cloud, container, and API design skills, plus mentoring of engineers and collaboration with Product Management, Infra/DevOps and Security to advance the roadmap.

Qualifications

• B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 4+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web applications.
• Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku.
• Strong understanding of containers Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience in REST API development.
• Polyglot developer with hands-on development in a major framework.
• Proficiency in .Net Core, Java/Springboot, Python, JS/NodeJS, Nest.JS, Nuxt.JS.
• Experience with low-latency messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Familiarity with CI/CD, testing frameworks and tools (Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket pipelines, Spinnaker).
• Knowledge of Monitoring/Observability (Dynatrace, DataDog).
• Strong architecture skills across systems; agile experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication; remote-first collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture of large-scale backend applications to ensure performance, maintainability, and availability.
• Contribute daily with code while guiding the development and deployment lifecycle.
• Balance cutting-edge tech with timely product delivery to meet roadmaps.
• Own estimates, coding, testing, troubleshooting and performance optimizations.
• Collaborate with Backend Engineers, Product Management, DevOps and Security to advance the product roadmap.
• Mentor less experienced software engineers on the team.

Skills

Cloud experience

Containers

REST API design

Polyglot developer

Frontend leadership

Agile

Communication

Hands-on coding

Education

B Degree in CS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Jenkins

Bitbucket Pipelines

Spinnaker

Dynatrace

DataDog

Terraform

SonarCloud

Cloudflare

Nx

Job description

Contract position

Minimum Requirements

• B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 4+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web applications
• Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku
• Strong understanding of containers Docker, Kubernetes
• Required experience in REST API development
• Polyglot developer with current hands-on development experience in a major framework
• .Net Core, Java/Springboot, Python, JS/NodeJS, Nest.JS, Nuxt.JS
• Hands-on experience with low-latency messaging/queueing technologies - Kafka, rabbit MQ
• Demonstrable familiarity with CI/CD process, testing frameworks and practices with tools like git, Jenkins/Bitbucket pipelines, Spinnaker
• Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools such as Dynatrace & DataDog
• Strong knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Expert understanding of architecture and design across all systems
• Experience working within an agile development environment
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work in a dynamic, remote-first environment with a globally distributed team
• Learn about new trends and drive team discussions to improve the product.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Comfortable leading the frontend development team in big projects
• This is a hands-on role and code contribution daily is required

Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience using Node.js tools
• Experience with backend tech stacks including Node, Python and Go
• Experience with testing (Cypress, Jest)
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker
• Experience with SonarCloud (Code scanning, vulnerabilities, code coverage, code quality etc)
• Experience with Cloudflare (Caching, DNS, WAF, CSP)
• Experience using Monorepos using Nx (we have over 20+ FE apps in the same repo)
• Experience with Datadog
• Experience with AWS services
• Experience using Terrafrom

Responsibilities

• We are looking for an individual to lead the design and architecture of large- scale backend applications using the best practices to ensure high levels of performance, maintainability and availability.
• Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development, and deployment and drive improvements in the company's software delivery life cycle to enable high quality continuous delivery process.
• The ideal candidate will bring a mindset of creativity, innovation, and balance bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery.
• The role requires ownership, logical thinking, and estimation of your own work, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimizations.
• The candidate will partner with key stakeholders across the business including the Backend Software Engineers, • Product Management, Infrastructure/DevOps and Security to advance the product roadmap. They will need to Seek constant feedback from different users and data to help the team to prioritize and iterate on solutions.
• Be involved in mentoring less experienced software engineers in the team