Technology / Domain Specialists

Boardroom Appointments; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,500,000 - 2,700,000; Part time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a senior backend/architecture lead to design and implement large-scale web applications. You will guide architecture decisions, ensure performance and reliability, and partner with product, infrastructure, and security to drive the roadmap.

The role is remote-first, requiring strong communication across a globally distributed team and hands-on development daily in a polyglot stack including Node.js, Java, Python, and .NET Core.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web apps.
• Proficient with Node.js, Python and Go backend stacks.
• Experience with Cypress/Jest testing and CI/CD (Bitbucket Pipelines, Spinnaker).
• Familiar with SonarCloud and Cloudflare services.
• Experience with Nx monorepos (20+ FE apps).
• Hands-on cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure; Terraform experience.
• Strong Docker+Kubernetes know-how; REST API development.
• Polyglot dev with .NET Core, Java/Springboot, Python, Node/Nest/Nuxt.
• Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture of large-scale backend apps with best practices.
• Participate in design, planning, development and deployment cycles.
• Collaborate with Backend Engineers, Product, Infra/DevOps and Security to advance roadmaps.

Skills

Node.js

Python

Go

REST API

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Git

Jenkins

Nx

Spinnaker

Bitbucket Pipelines

Terraform

AWS

Datadog

Dynatrace

NestJS

Nuxt.js

.NET Core

Java

Spring Boot

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Nx

Spinnaker

Bitbucket Pipelines

SonarCloud

Cloudflare

Terraform

Job description

Contract position

Minimum requirements

• B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 10+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web applications
• Experience using Node.js tools, backend tech stacks including Node, Python and Go
• Experience with testing (Cypress, Jest) and CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker
• Experience with SonarCloud (Code scanning, vulnerabilities, code coverage, code quality etc) and Cloudflare (Caching, DNS, WAF, CSP)
• Experience using Monorepos using Nx (we have over 20+ FE apps in the same repo)
• Experience with Datadog, AWS services and using Terrafrom
• 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 and 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

Responsibilities

• 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 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