Senior PolyGlot JavaScript AI Engineer (Johannesburg)

2 hours ago 4

Work From Home - Earn Something By Just Working At Home

Location:	Johannesburg
Remote work:	Only remote work
Type:	Contract
Reference:	#GZ61459
Company:	E-Merge IT Recruitment

We're looking for a Senior PolyGlot AI Engineer. Not someone who can recite architecture patterns from a conference talk. Someone who's lived through them.

You've seen microservices save a company and you've seen them create 47 services where three would have done the job. You've built distributed systems.

You've debugged production incidents.

You've deployed fixes while your coffee went cold.

And somewhere along the way, you've learned that every technical decision is a trade-off.

You'll 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
Java
C#
Typescript
Go
Node.js
Saga
Circuit breakers
Clean architecture
More importantly, you know when not to use them

Bonus XP:

Frontend literacy with React, Next.js, 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 GZ61459 which is a contract position offering a contract rate of R760 per hour negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on az.oc.egrem-e@zhtrag or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

Are you ready for a change of scenery? The E-Merge IT recruitment is a specialist niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right developers with the right companies in the right roles. Check out the e-Merge website www.e-merge.co.za for more great positions.

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Posted on 07 Jul 18:58, Closing date 5 Sep

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