SENIOR Back-End Software Engineer

If elegant architecture and lightning-fast APIs excite you, this opportunity is for you.

South Africa’s leading digital bank is transforming into a fully technology-driven financial services organisation and is looking for an exceptional Back-End Software Engineer to join their high-performance engineering division.

This strategic role suits a technically strong, solutions-driven professional who thrives in complex, high-performance environments and values clean, scalable architecture.

Required skills and experience:

• Strong C# (.NET 7/8/9) and Python (FastAPI) development
• Deep AWS knowledge: IAM, EKS, RDS, MSK (Kafka), Lambda, ElastiCache
• Terraform (modules, state management, environment-specific provisioning)
• Microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, event-driven architecture
• PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Monitoring/observability: Instana, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

The details:

• Reference: GZ60946
• Location: Sandton
• Salary: Up to R1.4m CTC per annum (experience dependent)

Contact Garth: az.oc.egrem-e@zhtrag 011 463 3633

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Posted on 04 Mar 11:18, Closing date 3 May