| Remuneration: | basic salary |
| Location: | Cape Town |
| Education level: | Diploma |
| Job level: | Senior |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #CL60946 |
| Company: | e-Merge IT Recruitment |
One of South Africa’s leading retail banks, renowned for reshaping the banking landscape through simplicity, transparency, and innovation, is seeking an experienced Software Back-End Engineer to join their high-performing technology team. With significant investment in modern platforms, automation, cloud engineering, and highly scalable systems, this is an opportunity to work at the forefront of financial technology.
In this role, you will be responsible for delivering end-to-end solutions, covering architecture, development, deployment, and ongoing monitoring. You’ll contribute to building secure, high-performance systems that support millions of customers across South Africa.
This is your chance to join a trusted, financially stable bank with an inclusive, values-driven culture that places strong emphasis on employee wellbeing and work-life balance. Apply now!
Required Skills and Experience:
- Strong programming skills in C# (.NET 7/8/9) and Python (FastAPI)
- Deep understanding of AWS cloud services (IAM, EKS, RDS, MSK/Kafka, Lambda, ElastiCache)
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modules, state management, environment-specific provisioning)
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture, REST/gRPC APIs, and event-driven design
- Proficiency with databases (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL)
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Strong understanding of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Instana, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Reference Number for this position is CL60946 which is a position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary of up to R1.5m per annum depending on experience and ability. Contact Candace on az.oc.egrem-e@lecadnac or call her 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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