Senior C# JavaScript AI Backend Engineer Remote R760 PH
Johannesburg - South Africa
Job Summary
Were looking for a Senior Backend Engineer. Not someone who can recite architecture patterns from a conference talk. Someone whos lived through them.
Youve seen microservices save a company and youve seen them create 47 services where three would have done the job. Youve built distributed systems.
Youve debugged production incidents.
Youve deployed fixes while your coffee went cold.
And somewhere along the way youve learned that every technical decision is a trade-off.
Youll probably thrive here if you:
- Have 8 to 10 years building and operating production backend systems
- Have deep experience with:
- Microservices
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Event-Driven Architecture
- CQRS
- .Net
- C#
- Typescript
- Go
- Saga
- Circuit Breakers
- Clean Architecture
- More importantly you know when not to use them
Bonus XP:
- Frontend literacy with React or similar frameworks
- Production experience with LLMs RAG systems AI agents and evaluation frameworks
- MCP vector databases prompt engineering cost optimisation and AI observability
- Experience leading a small team mentoring engineers or owning a product domain
Deep experience with cloud-native systems:
- AWS GCP or Azure
- Containers and orchestration
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD pipelines
Reference Number for this position is GZ61391 which is a contract position offering a contract rate of R760 per hour negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on or call him on to discuss this and other opportunities.
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