Backend Developer

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🕒 July 29

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

👻 Ghost score 25%

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VirtuHire

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

Recruitment • HR Tech • SaaS

VirtuHire is a remote recruiting and employer-of-record service focused on connecting businesses with vetted South African talent. The company rigorously vets candidates and provides a curated shortlist, interview scheduling, onboarding, payroll, compliance, and full employee management. It offers a no-fee recruitment process, advertises cost savings versus local hires, and emphasizes English proficiency, university-educated candidates, and industry experience. Metrics provided include clients served, hires made, and a high retention rate. VirtuHire positions itself as a partner handling hiring, EOR services, and HR administration to let clients focus on growth.

📋 Description

• Hands-on development of core business logic using Java and the Spring Boot framework. • Architect, deploy, and manage scalable back-end infrastructure and services on AWS. • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated testing to accelerate deployment. • Define and create high-quality, secure, and well-documented RESTful APIs for front-end consumption. • Write, debug, and perform code reviews for clean, efficient, and high-performing production code.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Back-End Developer, with a focus on senior-level, hands-on technical delivery. • Expert proficiency in Java and extensive experience developing enterprise applications with Spring Boot and the broader Spring ecosystem. • Deep practical experience with AWS Cloud services for building and hosting highly available applications. • Proven ability to implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform or CloudFormation). • Strong background in DevOps practices, including automation, scripting (e.g., Bash, Python), and CI/CD. • Expertise in database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) and performance tuning/optimization. • Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker and Kubernetes/ECS) is essential.