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Job Location drjobs

Cape Town - South Africa

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Principal BackEnd Engineer Remote role (South Africa)


Are you a seasoned BackEnd Engineer looking for an opportunity to work on cuttingedge technology in the retail tech industry A leading company is on a mission to reinvent the brickandmortar shopping experience and they need your expertise to help build scalable highperformance backend systems.

Why You Should Apply:

  • Work in a fastpaced innovative environment
  • Design and build robust scalable microservices
  • Collaborate with top Engineers Data Scientists and AI experts
  • Lead and mentor Junior Engineers
  • Work with modern cloudnative technologies

Your Role:

  • Architect implement and maintain scalable backend services
  • Work closely with crossfunctional teams to deliver highquality solutions
  • Optimize performance debug issues and ensure high availability
  • Champion secure coding practices and ensure compliance with data protection standards
  • Write comprehensive tests and maintain technical documentation
  • Provide mentorship through code reviews and knowledge sharing
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to the tech stack

What Youll Need:

  • 8 years of backend development experience
  • Proficiency in Elixir Go Python or similar
  • Expertise in PostgreSQL MySQL or similar databases
  • Strong understanding of microservices and monolithic architectures
  • Experience designing RESTful APIs or GraphQL
  • Knowledge of security best practices (e.g. OWASP Top Ten)
  • Handson experience with Docker Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience deploying applications on AWS GCP or Azure
  • Strong problemsolving skills and experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

Bonus Points For:

  • Experience with AIdriven architectures
  • Proficiency with ORM frameworks (Entity Framework Phoenix Ecto or ActiveRecord)
  • Experience with Elixir Phoenix Framework and OTP concepts
  • Building faulttolerant highavailability distributed systems
  • Performance tuning and optimizing hightraffic applications

For more IT jobs visit you havent heard back within two weeks please consider your application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on file for future opportunities.



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Department / Functional Area

Software Development

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