Backend Developer

A leading South African-based customer experience and business process services organisation with an international footprint is looking for an experienced Backend Developer to join their dynamic Technology team. This is an excellent opportunity to work for a company with a strong focus on innovation and technology
This role is ideal for a C# / ASP.NET Backend Developer who enjoys building reliable, scalable solutions and wants to work on a platform that makes a difference. You will be exposed to meaningful technical challenges, business-critical systems and a collaborative environment where you can continue to develop your engineering expertise
To be part of this team transforming the way businesses engage with their customers through technology, data and human connection – Apply now!!!

Required skills and experience:

• Strong C# / ASP.NET core web API experience
• Strong SQL expertise: complex queries, schema design, indexing, and query optimisation in SQL Server / Azure SQL
• EF Core proficiency, with the judgement to write raw SQL when the ORM is not the right tool
• Azure fundamentals: App service (or equivalent), Blob, queues/service bus, identity/secrets
• Experience building integration-heavy or BFF-style APIs (timeouts, retries, token handling, clear error mapping)
• Solid testing habits (xUnit or similar)
• Comfortable in a fast-moving agile team collaborating with frontend and AI engineers

Beneficial experience:

• Experience with Cursor, Claude, or similar AI coding assistants
• Some exposure to AI/LLM APIs or AI-enabled products (helpful, not required)
• Entra ID / OAuth2 / managed identity
• Azure OpenAI or OpenAI API integration
• Bicep and Azure DevOps multi-stage deploys
• Debt-collection / BPO / fintech domain
• Comfort reading React consumers and collaborating on portal API contracts

Reference number for this position is MAT61526 which is a permanent position based in Sandton offering a cost to company salary of up to R800K negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Mavis on az.oc.egrem-e@msivam or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
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Posted on 09 Sep 11:44, Closing date 8 Nov