Senior Software Engineer
| Remuneration: | basic salary |
| Location: | Johannesburg |
| Education level: | Diploma |
| Job level: | Senior |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #CL61232 |
| Company: | E-Merge IT Recruitment |
A fast-growing, product-focused tech environment is looking for a
Senior Software Engineer to play a
foundational role in shaping architecture, infrastructure, and engineering standards across multiple platforms.
This is not just another dev role, this is an opportunity to
build from the ground up, influence technical direction, and ship real products at scale.
As a senior software engineer, you will take ownership of both
technical execution and architectural direction, working closely with product teams to bring scalable systems to life.
This is a
hands-on leadership role; you’ll be writing production code while guiding engineering best practices.
Requirements:- 5+ years software engineering experience
- 3+ years in architecture ownership or technical leadership
- Strong backend experience with Node.js or Python
- Proven experience in fintech systems (payments, credit, transactional flows)
- Experience building secure financial/data-driven platforms
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems
- Solid experience with PostgreSQL (or similar)
- Experience with Redis or caching layers
- Strong AWS experience
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
- Track record of building SaaS platforms from scratch
Nice to have:- Event-driven architecture experience
- Experience building SDK-ready platforms
- Background in early-stage or high-growth environments
Reference number for this position is
CL61232 which is a permanent position, remote,
offering R660k per annum. 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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Posted on 09 Apr 16:32, Closing date 8 Jun
