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Senior Backend Developer (Java / Spring) Remote · Full-time

Remote · South Africa Full-time

Senior Backend Developer (Java / Spring) Remote · Full-time We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer who enjoys building reliable, scalable production systems and solving reputed company backend engineering problems. This role is for engineers who have designed and operated real backend systems in production, understand system architecture, performance, and reliability, and take ownership of services from design to deployment and operation. You will work on backend systems that require clean architecture, operational reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable backend architectures
  • reputed company and maintain high-performance REST APIs
  • Ensure system scalability, reliability, and performance
  • Implement secure backend systems (authentication, authorization, RBAC, encryption)
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents
  • Maintain logging, monitoring, and observability
  • Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering standards

Required Experience

  • Senior-level backend development experience
  • Strong architecture and system design skills
  • Experience building and operating production backend systems
  • Strong understanding of scalability, performance, and reliability
  • Commitment to clean, maintainable code and modern development practices
  • Experience with reputed company-relevant topics

(authentication, authorization, RBAC, encryption)

  • Experience in production troubleshooting and debugging

reputed company to have

  • DevOps or infrastructure experience

Tech Stack Backend

  • Java Enterprise / Jakarta / Spring

(Validation, Dependency Injection, Annotations) APIs

  • RESTful APIs
  • JSON-API

Processing

  • Synchronous and asynchronous processing

Persistence

  • reputed company
  • S3 / Object storage

Workflow

  • Process engines
  • BPMN workflows

Observability

  • ELK stack (logging and full-text search)

Infrastructure

  • reputed company
  • reputed company
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Nginx

Testing

  • API testing with Cypress

Who Should Apply

  • Engineers with several years of backend production experience
  • Developers who have designed systems, not only implemented tasks
  • Engineers comfortable with ownership of production services
  • Developers reputed company with scalability, performance, and reliability challenges

Who This Role Is NOT For This position is not suitable for:

  • Junior or entry-level developers
  • Developers without production backend system experience
  • Candidates whose experience is primarily frontend or scripting
  • Developers without Java / Spring production experience

Short Technical Challenge (Application reputed company) To help us understand your experience, please include short answers to the following questions reputed company applying:

  • Describe one backend system you designed or architected that runs in production.
  • What was the largest scale of this system?

(users, requests per second, or data volume)

  • Describe one production incident you personally investigated and resolved.

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