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  • Backend Engineer

    2 days ago


    South Africa Placements24 Full-time R 450,000 - R 650,000 Contract

    Placements24 in Queenstown is seeking a motivated Backend Software Engineer to join our client’s team. You will design, implement, and maintain server-side logic for web applications, ensuring performance and scalability while collaborating with frontend developers and DBAs.The role emphasizes building robust APIs, working with relational databases, and...


  • Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa Psybergate Remote Full-time

    Psybergate is seeking an experienced Senior Java Developer to design, build and maintain scalable backend services. You will work with Java EE, REST APIs, and microservices, ensuring alignment with system architecture.Strong mentoring and stakeholder communication are essential, with remote-friendly arrangements in Gauteng. The role requires 8–10 years of...


  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Psybergate Remote Full-time

    Psybergate is seeking an experienced Senior Java Developer to design, build and maintain scalable backend services. You will work with Java EE, REST APIs, and microservices, ensuring alignment with system architecture.Strong mentoring and stakeholder communication are essential, with remote-friendly arrangements in Gauteng. The role requires 8–10 years of...


  • Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa E-Merge Remote Full-time R 576,000 - R 960,000 Contract

    E-Merge is seeking a talented software professional for a fully remote role. You will work across diverse projects, transforming business requirements into robust, scalable applications while collaborating with experienced consultants and developers.The role emphasizes backend work with microservices, DDD, TDD, and event-driven architecture. Strong...


  • eastern cape, za, Eastern Cape Mobilunity Full-time

    Mobilunity is seeking a Senior Java Backend Engineer to join a globally distributed, Agile technology team. The role focuses on developing and maintaining scalable backend services for an African nonprofit platform that connects healthcare providers, community organizations, and partners.You will contribute to building secure, high-quality software from the...


  • gauteng, za, Gauteng Mobilunity Full-time

    Mobilunity is seeking a Senior Java Backend Engineer to join a globally distributed, Agile technology team. The role focuses on developing and maintaining scalable backend services for an African nonprofit platform that connects healthcare providers, community organizations, and partners.You will contribute to building secure, high-quality software from the...


  • Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa Recruit-It Full-time

    Recruit-It is seeking a senior software developer to join a Java-centric team in South Africa. You will refine requirements with business analysts, refactor code for maintainability, and deliver production-ready software with thorough unit tests.Required: 8-10 years in software development, strong Java skills, experience with JavaScript/TypeScript,...


  • gauteng, za, Gauteng Recruit-It Full-time

    Recruit-It is seeking a senior software developer to join a Java-centric team in South Africa. You will refine requirements with business analysts, refactor code for maintainability, and deliver production-ready software with thorough unit tests.Required: 8-10 years in software development, strong Java skills, experience with JavaScript/TypeScript,...


  • Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Recruit-It Full-time

    Recruit-It is seeking a senior software developer to join a Java-centric team in South Africa. You will refine requirements with business analysts, refactor code for maintainability, and deliver production-ready software with thorough unit tests.Required: 8-10 years in software development, strong Java skills, experience with JavaScript/TypeScript,...

  • Senior Java

    2 days ago


    Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Hire Resolve Full-time

    A tech recruitment agency is looking for a Senior Software Developer to join a team in Cape Town. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in backend development, with strong skills in Java, Kotlin, REST, and AWS. This role requires in-depth knowledge of various tools and databases such as Maven, Springboot, JPA/Hibernate, and multiple SQL...


  • Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Mobilunity Full-time

    Mobilunity is seeking a Senior Java Backend Engineer to join a globally distributed, Agile technology team. The role focuses on developing and maintaining scalable backend services for an African nonprofit platform that connects healthcare providers, community organizations, and partners.You will contribute to building secure, high-quality software from the...


  • Mmabatho Unit 4, North West, South Africa Placements24 Full-time

    Placements24 is seeking a proficient Backend Engineer to join their fully remote engineering team. You will design, build, and maintain the server-side logic, databases, and APIs powering innovative platforms in a fast-paced, agile environment.You will collaborate with frontend developers, ensure data integrity, and optimize for performance, scalability, and...


  • za ITGuru Full-time

    GoTyme is seeking a hands-on Core Backend Engineer to build the ledger, posting, and reconciliation capabilities for our financial core. You will design and implement an event-sourced double-entry ledger, posting rules, and transaction processing, collaborating with finance, treasury, risk, compliance, and operations teams.You will ensure idempotency,...

  • Ai backend engineer

    2 days ago


    gauteng, South Africa Odixcity Consulting Full-time

    Odixcity Consulting is seeking a highly analytical Backend Engineer Annotator to support AI development, evaluation and improvement. You will review, annotate, validate and improve backend datasets, code samples and system design outputs. Responsibilities include annotating backend code samples, labeling REST APIs and Graph QL datasets, and evaluating...


  • East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa Recruit-It Full-time

    Recruit-It is seeking a senior software developer to join a Java-centric team in South Africa. You will refine requirements with business analysts, refactor code for maintainability, and deliver production-ready software with thorough unit tests.Required: 8-10 years in software development, strong Java skills, experience with JavaScript/TypeScript,...


  • za Mobilunity Full-time

    Mobilunity is seeking a Senior Java Backend Engineer to join a globally distributed, Agile technology team. The role focuses on developing and maintaining scalable backend services for an African nonprofit platform that connects healthcare providers, community organizations, and partners.You will contribute to building secure, high-quality software from the...


  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa ITGuru Full-time

    GoTyme is seeking a hands-on Core Backend Engineer to build the ledger, posting, and reconciliation capabilities for our financial core. You will design and implement an event-sourced double-entry ledger, posting rules, and transaction processing, collaborating with finance, treasury, risk, compliance, and operations teams.You will ensure idempotency,...


  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Placements24 Full-time

    Placements24 is seeking a talented Remote Backend Software Developer to join a fully distributed engineering team. You will design, build, and maintain scalable server-side applications and APIs powering their platform, collaborating with a global team of engineers, product managers, and designers.The ideal candidate has proven backend experience with...


  • Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ITGuru Full-time

    GoTyme is seeking a hands-on Core Backend Engineer to build the ledger, posting, and reconciliation capabilities for our financial core. You will design and implement an event-sourced double-entry ledger, posting rules, and transaction processing, collaborating with finance, treasury, risk, compliance, and operations teams.You will ensure idempotency,...


  • za Myremota Full-time

    MyRemota in South Africa is hiring a permanent Senior Backend Engineer to join our Asset Sales group as we scale our platform and services. You will design and build robust APIs, optimize data stores, and collaborate with frontend and product teams to deliver high-quality features.The ideal candidate has strong experience in backend development, scalable...