Senior Backend Engineer
Location
cape town, western cape
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Networks & Systems
Posted
June 08, 2026
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the engineering team to release features on the product roadmap.
- Be able to take full ownership of your feature releases, testing and reliability.
- Gain a holistic understanding of the company stack, infrastructure, internal development requirements, resources as well as customer facing features.
- You will be leading a team in this role and you are capable, experienced, willing and excited to step into a leadership and executive role, in the near future.
Requirements
- A University degree is not needed, but would be ideal.
- 5+ years of experience in the industry
- Experience with leading a team of engineers e.g. team lead.
- Experience with AWS (or GCP / Azure)
- Ideally, experienced with Rust or WebRTC.
- Ideally a devops knowledge - Nomad (or Kubernetes) and Docker, as well as knowledge of standard Linux networking and shell scripting.