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Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Java & Spring Expert
Placements24 is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for its flagship products in a fully remote, distributed team. Core stack is Java and Spring, plus REST microservices, relational databases, and Docker/Kubernetes tooling.
Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) - Go/Python Microservices
Senior Backend Engineer on a remote-first team who designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend systems in Go or Python, deployed AWS-natively as containerized microservices. Day to day involves collaborating with product and frontend teams, improving CI/CD, upholding code quality and test coverage, and mentoring peers.
Remote Senior Java Backend Engineer (Spring Boot)
Fully remote senior engineer role designing, developing, and deploying scalable Java backend services using Spring Boot and microservices — building APIs, mentoring juniors, doing code reviews, and optimizing database performance on a distributed, remote-first team.
DevOps Engineer (Remote-First)
Remote-first DevOps engineer for a growing SaaS client (posted via recruiter Placements24): designs CI/CD pipelines, builds scalable AWS/Azure/GCP infrastructure, and automates provisioning with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes, plus monitoring, security, and production support.
Remote AI Backend Engineer | Python/Java/Go
Fully remote AI backend engineer building scalable backend services, APIs, and microservices that integrate AI/ML models. Collaborates with data scientists and frontend engineers to ensure security, reliability, and performance on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, using Python, Java, or Go.
Remote Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Spring)
Fully remote senior backend role (posted by recruiter Placements24 on behalf of a global software company) designing, building, and maintaining scalable Java/Spring backend services, REST APIs, and microservices. Core stack: Java, Spring Boot/Spring Data, relational databases, with Docker/Kubernetes and Kafka as pluses.
Principal Backend Engineer: Distributed Systems & Equity
Principal backend engineer at a global data analytics and AI solutions company based in Centurion, Gauteng. The role focuses on designing scalable distributed backend systems, architecting core services, mentoring engineers, and driving technical strategy with attention to security and performance.
Senior Backend Engineer - Remote (SA) | Scalable APIs
Senior Backend Engineer designing, developing, and maintaining scalable server-side logic and high-performance, security-focused APIs, fully remote from South Africa while collaborating with an international team. Core stack includes Python/Java/Go, REST APIs, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
DevOps Solutions Analyst: User Stories & Testing
A DevOps-oriented business analyst role embedded at Absa in Johannesburg: elicit, define and organize business requirements within agile squads, translate stakeholder needs into user stories for DevOps teams, and support analysis and testing across design and delivery in a financial services environment.
Senior DevOps Solution Analyst: Requirements & Testing
Absa Group, a Johannesburg-based bank, is hiring a Specialist/Senior Solution Analyst for a DevOps-driven team. The role elicits and defines business requirements, turns them into user stories for full-stack delivery squads, shapes roadmaps and acceptance criteria, and performs hands-on manual testing and validation while coaching analysts.
Senior Full Stack Developer (JavaScript/Node.js)
Senior full stack developer in Durban (hybrid) who designs, builds, and maintains scalable web applications end to end using JavaScript/Node.js (Express), a modern front-end framework like React/Angular/Vue, SQL/NoSQL databases, REST APIs and microservices on cloud platforms. Also mentors juniors and contributes to architectural decisions.
Senior Full Stack Developer - FinTech Platform
Senior full stack developer for a fintech client's core trading platform, working in a hybrid role based in Benoni, South Africa. Day to day you build scalable web apps end to end — React/Angular/Vue front ends, Node/Python/Java back ends, REST APIs, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
Full Stack Developer
Full Stack Developer building and maintaining both frontend and backend of web applications for a client team in Pietermaritzburg, in a hybrid role. Works across the full dev lifecycle using HTML/CSS/JavaScript with a modern JS framework, a backend stack (e.g. Node, Python, Java, or C#), SQL/NoSQL databases, and REST APIs.
Senior FinTech Full-Stack Developer (Hybrid, Sandton)
Senior full-stack developer at a prominent fintech client in Sandton (hybrid), owning end-to-end development of trading platforms and financial applications: building React/Angular/Vue front ends, Python/Java/Node.js back ends, designing robust APIs, optimizing performance, and mentoring junior engineers.
Senior Full Stack Developer - AI Platform
Senior full stack developer building scalable web apps and backend services for a client's AI platform: React/Angular/Vue front ends, Python/Node/Go backends, databases, and cloud deploys on AWS/GCP/Azure, working closely with AI researchers and data scientists. Remote-first role, work from anywhere.
Full Stack Developer (Node.js & React)
Full stack developer at a software solutions provider in Port Elizabeth, building backend services and APIs with Node.js/Express and responsive frontends with React, while working with PostgreSQL/MongoDB across the full development lifecycle, including testing, code reviews, and performance optimization.
Senior Full-Stack Developer (JS/Node) – Hybrid & Impact
A senior full-stack developer builds web applications end to end with JavaScript and Node.js at a growing software solutions provider in Durban, working with product managers and designers, mentoring juniors, and influencing architectural decisions.
Hybrid AI Backend Engineer
Placements24 is hiring a hybrid AI Backend Engineer in Soweto, South Africa, to build scalable, reliable, and secure backend services that power AI applications, with a strong emphasis on performance and production readiness.