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Remote Lead Backend Engineer (Node.js/Express)
Lead Backend Engineer for a fintech startup's fully remote (South Africa) team: design and scale Node.js/Express.js backend services and APIs, mentor engineers, and drive architecture, code reviews, and CI/CD. Works with PostgreSQL/MongoDB, cloud platforms, and containerization.
Senior Backend Engineer — Remote Fintech (Equity)
Senior Backend Engineer for a fintech startup, fully remote across South Africa: design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs, and microservices alongside frontend, product, and other stakeholders. Core stack includes Python/Java/Go/Node.js, SQL and NoSQL databases, cloud platforms, and Docker/Kubernetes.
Senior Python/Django Backend Engineer - Remote
Senior backend engineer building high-performance RESTful APIs with Python and Django, optimizing PostgreSQL/MySQL databases, and implementing security. Works remotely with frontend and product teams, mentors junior engineers, and contributes to architectural decisions.
Remote Senior Backend Engineer — Scale APIs & Microservices
Senior Backend Engineer at Placements24 joining a fully remote team to design and build scalable backend systems, APIs, and microservices in collaboration with product managers and frontend engineers. Requires 5+ years of backend experience plus databases and cloud platforms.
Devops, Platform & Support Engineer (Hybrid Role)
Hybrid DevOps, platform and first-line support role in Cape Town: provisioning AWS cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, setting up monitoring and alerting in Better Stack and Datadog, and triaging live alerts via runbooks while troubleshooting containers, auto-scaling and load balancers across a multi-tenant client ecosystem.
SAP ABAP DevOps Engineer – AI-Driven SAP Logistics
A DevOps engineer with SAP/S4HANA expertise supporting logistics-focused SAP deployments in Pretoria — handling data migration planning, cut-over strategies, and go-live readiness, then providing post-go-live support. Involves troubleshooting, documenting changes, and CAB interactions in an Agile, cross-functional team.
Hybrid DevOps & Platform Engineer - Automate & Monitor
Mvia is hiring a hybrid DevOps, Platform & Support Engineer in Cape Town to provision cloud environments, build CI/CD pipelines, and run monitoring with Better Stack and Datadog. The role covers alert triage and incident handling, AI-assisted log monitoring, and troubleshooting containers, auto-scaling, and load balancers.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer at Network International (PayFast) in Johannesburg: design, build and operate AWS cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, regulated payments platform. Day-to-day covers Kubernetes migration, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, monitoring (ELK/OpenSearch), database maintenance, security, patching and incident response.
Senior DevOps Engineer: CI/CD, Cloud & Automation Lead
Placements24 is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for its on-site Upington team to bridge development and IT operations by automating build, test, and deployment tasks. The role focuses on designing scalable CI/CD pipelines, applying IaC, and managing cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Junior DevOps Engineer
Junior DevOps Engineer at Network International, a Middle East/Africa payments fintech: monitor and automate the AWS infrastructure behind its payment gateway (CloudWatch, EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53), write Bash/Python automation scripts, and support CI/CD pipelines, with mentorship, hybrid working based in Cape Town.
AWS-Focused Junior DevOps Engineer (Hybrid Cape Town)
Early-career DevOps engineer supporting, monitoring, and automating AWS cloud infrastructure behind Network International's payment gateway. Junior-friendly role with mentorship and pairing, working hybrid in Cape Town.
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer: Cloud Reliability & Kubernetes
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer at Network International owning reliability, automation, and security for the AWS cloud infrastructure behind a high-availability payment processing platform. Day to day: Kubernetes operations, configuration management, monitoring, and incident response in a regulated financial services environment.
Platform/ DevOps Engineer
Platform/DevOps engineer at a consulting firm in Cape Town who designs, builds, and maintains scalable AWS cloud platforms: writing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), automating deployments via CI/CD, running Docker/Kubernetes workloads, adding monitoring/observability, and applying security best practices.
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer | Kubernetes & Cloud Security
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer who designs, builds, and operates cloud infrastructure for a high-availability payments platform, owning reliability, automation, and security in a regulated environment handling millions of live financial transactions daily. Core stack: AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD.
Lead Backend Engineer - Hybrid, High-Impact Systems
Placements24 is hiring a Lead Backend Engineer in Vereeniging, South Africa (hybrid) to guide backend systems and architecture. The role combines hands-on leadership with strategy: mentoring engineers, driving RESTful API design, overseeing code quality, and shaping the tech roadmap across cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Durban Senior Fintech Node.js Backend Engineer
Senior backend engineer at a rapidly growing fintech startup in Durban, designing and maintaining a scalable Node.js backend with RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB databases, AWS/Azure/GCP deployment, and Docker/Kubernetes, with a focus on performance, security, and reliability.
Senior Backend Engineer - Node.js | APIs & Microservices
Placements24, a fintech startup in Vereeniging, South Africa, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Node.js backend systems powering financial platforms. Day to day this means developing RESTful APIs and microservices and managing PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB databases.
Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable Systems & APIs
Placements24 is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in Benoni, South Africa (hybrid) to build high-availability backend systems, APIs, and scalable architectures. Requires 5+ years of backend experience with Java, Python, C#, or Go and frameworks like Spring Boot, Django, or .NET Core; cloud and Docker skills are valued.
Senior .NET Backend Engineer: APIs & Cloud
Senior .NET backend developer who designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend services and REST APIs in Gauteng, integrating databases and third-party systems and contributing to automated testing and CI/CD deployment pipelines on Azure using Agile practices.
Python Backend Engineer: APIs, Cloud & Scalable Apps
Communicate Finance is hiring a Python backend engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Python applications and RESTful APIs, integrating third-party services with a focus on performance, reliability, and security. The role involves collaborating with Product, QA, and DevOps teams, troubleshooting, and contributing to architectural decisions.