Intermediate C# AI Backend Engineer

Role Description

We're looking for a Backend Engineer with 4 to 6 years of experience building real software for real users. Not tutorial projects. Not "coming soon" projects. Actual production systems that occasionally misbehave at 2 AM.

You'll fit right in if you:

• Have shipped backend services to production
• Know your way around Microservices, DDD, TDD, Event-Driven Architecture, and Clean Architecture
• Have met CQRS, Saga, and Circuit Breakers before and didn't immediately run away
• Understand that every architectural decision comes with trade-offs
• Can confidently say "I don't know, but I'll find out"
• Ask questions before spending 8 hours debugging the wrong thing

Qualifications

• .Net
• C#
• Typescript
• Go
• Nextjs
• Node.js

Requirements

• Bonus XP:
• React / Next.js experience
• Played with LLMs, RAG, AI agents, or built something weird and wonderful with AI
• Cloud, containers, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes
• Side projects that prove your curiosity is stronger than your free time

Benefits

• Contract position offering a contract rate of R500 per hour negotiable on experience and ability.

Company Description

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