Software Engineer (Back End)

Pretoria, Gauteng
Contract
Full-time

26 days ago

Job Description :We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Back-End Software Engineer to join our agile product development team. You’ll be instrumental in designing, developing, and operating robust, scalable backend systems for business-critical applications running 24/7 in the cloud.This role goes beyond coding — it involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, customers, and external partners, ensuring seamless deployment, monitoring, and performance of cloud-based solutions. If you're passionate about cloud-native development, automation, and system architecture, this is the opportunity for you.Role And Responsibilities

Develop and operate production ready business applications (24/7)

Liaise with customer, team members and external vendors

Deploy applications in AWS (via Github)

Monitoring and operation of applications within AWS CloudWatch.

Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM)Team Charter

Applying cloud-security patterns and concepts to the solutions and deployments

Requirements

Familiarity with Microservices Architecture, Cloud and Container Architecture

At least 6 years' worth of experience using back-end technologies such as

Javascript / TypeScript / Node.js

Python

Java

Experience with cloud technologies such as (Amazon AWS is strongly preferred):

API Gateway, CloudWatch, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, S3, etc.

Virtual networks (VPC), including communication with on-premise networks

CICD pipelines and configuration

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

Automated deployment and configuration of components and systems

Monitoring and log analytics

Containers: Docker and Kubernetes

Experience with Databases both Sql and NoSql (DynamoDB)

Experience with:

Web Services Design & Deployment

Event driven architectures with queues and streams

GIT (GitHub and GitHub Actions)

Experience with Design / Architecture Patterns

Experience in AGILE or SCRUM.

Open to learning new languages as required

Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

Experience with Linear and Nonlinear Optimization

Experience with Control Theory

Experience with Machine Learning

Experience with Design and Evaluation of Efficient Algorithms (Complexity Theory)

Experience with Performance Testing and Tuning (Automated Testing)

Experience with IoT devices

Understanding of power and energy consumption

Familiarity with shell scripting and working with Unix/Linux based systems

Working with Linux on Windows (WSL or VirtualBox)

Qualifications/Experience

Relevant IT Degree

Cloud Certifications

Sabenza IT

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