Senior C# JavaScript AI Backend Engineer

E-Merge IT Recruitment

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer. Not someone who can recite architecture patterns from a conference talk. Someone who's lived through them.

You've seen microservices save a company and you've seen them create 47 services where three would have done the job. You've built distributed systems.

You've debugged production incidents.

You've deployed fixes while your coffee went cold.

And somewhere along the way, you've learned that every technical decision is a trade-off.

You'll probably thrive here if you

Have 8 to 10 + years building and operating production backend systems
Microservices
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Event-Driven Architecture
CQRS
.Net
C#
Typescript
Go
Node.js
Saga
Circuit Breakers
Clean Architecture
More importantly, you know when not to use them

Bonus XP

Frontend literacy with React, Next.js, or similar frameworks
Production experience with LLMs, RAG systems, AI agents, and evaluation frameworks
MCP, vector databases, prompt engineering, cost optimisation, and AI observability
Experience leading a small team, mentoring engineers, or owning a product domain

Deep experience with cloud-native systems

AWS, GCP, or Azure
Containers and orchestration
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD pipelines

Reference Number for this position is GZ61391 which is a contract position offering a contract rate of R760 per hour negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on ***email_hidden*** or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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