Software Back-End Engineer

A market-leading South African retail bank — recognised for redefining banking through simplicity, transparency, and innovation — is looking to appoint an experienced Software Back-End Engineer to join its dynamic technology division. With continued investment in modern engineering practices, cloud-native platforms, automation, and highly scalable infrastructure, this opportunity places you at the cutting edge of financial services technology.

This role offers end-to-end ownership across the solution lifecycle, from architecture and development through to deployment, optimisation, and production monitoring. The successful candidate will contribute to building secure, resilient, and high-performance systems that serve millions of customers nationwide.

Joining this organisation means becoming part of a financially strong, trusted institution with an inclusive, purpose-driven culture that prioritises employee wellbeing, collaboration, and work-life balance.

Required skills and experience

• Advanced programming expertise in C# (.NET 7/8/9) and Python (FastAPI)
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services, including IAM, EKS, RDS, MSK/Kafka, Lambda, and ElastiCache
• Proven experience implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform (modules, state management, multi-environment provisioning)
• Solid grasp of microservices architecture, REST and gRPC APIs, and event-driven systems
• Proficiency with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Strong containerisation knowledge using Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling such as Instana, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry

Reference number for this position is PM60946 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 Phindi on az.oc.egrem-e@lecadnac or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 23 Feb 13:44, Closing date 24 Apr