Technology Domain Specialist - Junior

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📍 South Africa
📅 Posted 2026-08-22 · via Himalayas
🏷 Software-Engineer,Backend-Development,Fullstack-Development,Software-Architecture,Cloud-Engineer
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Contract position
Minimum Requirements:

-
 B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

- 4+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web applications

- Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku

- Strong understanding of containers Docker, Kubernetes

- Required experience in REST API development

- Polyglot developer with current hands-on development experience in a major framework

- .Net Core, Java/Springboot, Python, JS/NodeJS, Nest.JS, Nuxt.JS

- Hands-on experience with low-latency messaging/queueing technologies - Kafka, rabbit MQ

- Demonstrable familiarity with CI/CD process, testing frameworks and practices with tools like git, Jenkins/Bitbucket pipelines, Spinnaker

- Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools such as Dynatrace & DataDog

- Strong knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines

- Expert understanding of architecture and design across all systems

- Experience working within an agile development environment

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Ability to work in a dynamic, remote-first environment with a globally distributed team

- Learn about new trends and drive team discussions to improve the product.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Comfortable leading the frontend development team in big projects

- This is a hands-on role and code contribution daily is required

Nice-to-have Skills:

- Experience using Node.js tools

- Experience with backend tech stacks including Node, Python and Go

- Experience with testing (Cypress, Jest)

- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker

- Experience with SonarCloud (Code scanning, vulnerabilities, code coverage, code quality etc)

- Experience with Cloudflare (Caching, DNS, WAF, CSP)

- Experience using Monorepos using Nx (we have over 20+ FE apps in the same repo)

- Experience with Datadog

- Experience with AWS services

- Experience using Terrafrom 

Responsibilities:

- We are looking for an individual to lead the design and architecture of large- scale backend applications using the best practices to ensure high levels of performance, maintainability and availability.

- Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development, and deployment and drive improvements in the company's software delivery life cycle to enable high quality continuous delivery process.

- The ideal candidate will bring a mindset of creativity, innovation, and balance bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery.

- The role requires ownership, logical thinking, and estimation of your own work, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimizations.

- The candidate will partner with key stakeholders across the business including the Backend Software Engineers,

- Product Management, Infrastructure/DevOps and Security to advance the product roadmap. They will need to Seek constant feedback from different users and data to help the team to prioritize and iterate on solutions.

- Be involved in mentoring less experienced software engineers in the team



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