Senior Backend Developer ( & TypeScript)

Pretoria - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 16 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Reference: Rec000136-CM-1

Our client is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to take ownership of backend API development in a high-performance cloud-native environment. The successful candidate will design build and optimise scalable APIs using (TypeScript) with PostgreSQL as the primary datastore and Redis supporting caching queuing and performance optimisation.

You will work closely with product frontend and DevOps teams to deliver reliable backend services with excellent performance and observability.

Duties & Responsibilities

Key Requirements

Technical Skills

5 years of backend development experience
Strong proficiency with and TypeScript
Deep understanding of PostgreSQL (schema design query optimisation transactions)
Experience writing integration and unit tests
Experience using Redis for caching queues pub/sub or rate limiting
Strong understanding of RESTful API design and best practices
Solid experience with Linux Docker and containerised microservices
Familiarity with distributed systems concurrency and horizontal scaling
Strong debugging skills and experience with profiling and performance tuning
Experience with automated testing frameworks (Jest Mocha etc.)
Must be able to develop without the use of AI

Nice to Have

Experience with AWS (ECS Lambda SQS SNS RDS ElastiCache)
Experience with API gateways authentication and security standards (OAuth2 JWT OWASP)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines GitHub Actions GitLab CI CircleCI)
Experience with monitoring/observability tools (New Relic Papertrail CloudWatch etc.)
Experience with frameworks (Fastify Koa etc.)
Experience with database ORMs (Sequelize TypeORM Drizzle etc.)

Soft Skills

Strong ownership mentality able to drive features from idea to production
Excellent communication and documentation skills
Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements
Mentorship or leadership experience is advantageous

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Reference: Rec000136-CM-1Our client is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to take ownership of backend API development in a high-performance cloud-native environment. The successful candidate will design build and optimise scalable APIs using (TypeScript) with PostgreSQL as the primary datastore an...