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Remote Backend Development Jobs in South Africa 2026

22 remote jobs open to candidates in South Africa in Backend Development. Updated daily.

Turing
Backend Engineer Full-time
AI Infrastructure Research +12 Engineering STEM Reasoning Healthcare Concurrency Python Django PostgreSQL SWE-bench MATCH TypeScript React
  • Remote (Global)
  • Oct 19, 2026

Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate high-quality datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and frontier research benchmarks that improve model…

Tether
Backend Engineer Full-time
Node.js Finance AI +12 Infrastructure Communications Education Writing Testing Debugging Communication C++ JavaScript Network Fundamentals Distributed Systems Communication Skills
  • Remote (Global)
  • Oct 16, 2026

At Tether, we’re not just building products, we’re pioneering a global financial revolution. Our cutting-edge solutions empower businesses—from exchanges and wallets to payment processors and ATMs—to seamlessly integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains.

Kraken
Rust Developer Full-time ↘ +17 regions
Rust Finance Infrastructure +12 Culture Institutions APIs Microsoft Teams C++ Agile Payments Architecture Engineering Writing Apache Kafka Distributed Systems
  • Brazil, Peru, Sweden +14ColombiaArgentinaRomaniaCyprusSloveniaLithuaniaSouth AfricaCzech RepublicHungaryMexicoChilePolandSlovakiaBulgaria
  • Oct 13, 2026

Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open,…

Kraken
Rust Developer Full-time ↘ +15 regions
Rust Finance Infrastructure +12 Culture Institutions Architecture Payments REST API Leadership Engineering Microsoft Teams Alignment Make AI Writing
  • Romania, Brazil, Peru +12SwedenColombiaArgentinaCyprusSouth AfricaCzech RepublicHungaryMexicoChilePolandSpainBulgaria
  • Oct 7, 2026

Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open,…

Moniepoint
Backend Engineer Full-time
Payments Economics Management +12 Research Infrastructure Debugging Engineering Machine Learning Culture Collaboration Operations Make Architecture Documentation Network Fundamentals
  • South Africa
  • Sep 29, 2026

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.

Kraken
Rust Developer Full-time ↘ +15 regions
Rust Finance Infrastructure +12 Culture Institutions Engineering Microsoft Teams Make Compliance Scalability Observability Precision Architecture Writing Apache Kafka
  • Romania, Brazil, Peru +12SwedenColombiaArgentinaCyprusSouth AfricaCzech RepublicHungaryMexicoChilePolandSpainBulgaria
  • Sep 15, 2026

Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open,…

The Global Talent Co.
Backend Engineer Full-time
Infrastructure Logic Research +12 Analysis Management AI Engineering Programming React Node.js Express.js PostgreSQL AWS Claude Cursor
  • South Africa
  • Sep 9, 2026

Check out The Global Talent Co.’s talent network: https://www.globaltalent.co/network The Role You will join a company building the digital infrastructure for grant funding, helping organizations spend less time navigating funding logic, forms, and administration and more time…

The Global Talent Co.
Backend Engineer Full-time
Infrastructure Logic Research +12 Analysis Management AI Engineering Architecture Communication Automation AWS Claude Cursor PostgreSQL Monitoring
  • South Africa
  • Sep 9, 2026

Check out The Global Talent Co.’s talent network: https://www.globaltalent.co/network The Role You will join a company building the digital infrastructure for grant funding, helping organizations spend less time navigating funding logic, forms, and administration and more time…

Kraken
Rust Developer Full-time ↘ +14 regions
Rust Finance Infrastructure +12 Culture Institutions APIs Microsoft Teams Agile Payments Architecture Engineering Writing Apache Kafka Distributed Systems Software Engineering
  • Romania, Brazil, Peru +11SwedenColombiaArgentinaCyprusSouth AfricaCzech RepublicHungaryMexicoChilePolandBulgaria
  • Aug 31, 2026

Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open,…

Kraken
Rust Developer Full-time ↘ +16 regions
Rust Finance Infrastructure +12 Culture Payments Compliance Management Make Microsoft Teams Architecture Engineering Writing Apache Kafka Fintech Compliance Risk
  • Poland, Brazil, Peru +13SwedenColombiaArgentinaRomaniaSloveniaLithuaniaSouth AfricaCzech RepublicHungaryMexicoChileSlovakiaBulgaria
  • Jul 31, 2026

Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open,…

Tether
Backend Development Full-time ↘ +6 regions
Node.js Finance AI +12 Infrastructure Communications Education Fintech English Communication Network Fundamentals JavaScript Profiling Optimization Open Source English Communication
  • Switzerland, Sweden, Sri Lanka +3SpainSouth KoreaSouth Africa
  • Jul 30, 2026

At Tether, we’re not just building products, we’re pioneering a global financial revolution. Our cutting-edge solutions empower businesses—from exchanges and wallets to payment processors and ATMs—to seamlessly integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains.

Sourcegraph
Backend Engineer Full-time
AI Infrastructure Engineering +12 Microsoft Teams MCP Make Communication Index SaaS Terraform Google Cloud Platform Leadership Architecture Debugging Strategic Thinking
  • Remote (Global)
  • From $148,000/yr
  • Jul 28, 2026

Our mission is to bring clarity and control to the world's most complex codebases. AI is accelerating code creation, but the infrastructure to understand, oversee, and evolve that code hasn't kept pace.

Canonical
C++ macOS Ubuntu +12 Prototyping Linux AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform Leadership Mentoring Architecture Engineering Testing Communication English
  • Europe, Middle East, Africa
  • Jul 16, 2026

Use your deep C++ skills on Windows and MacOS to build an amazing open source developer experience with Multipass, the workstation mini-cloud at your fingertips which provides Ubuntu and appliance VMs on demand for build, test and prototyping.

Canonical
Python MongoDB Kubernetes +9 Infrastructure Linux Operations Management Testing Culture Ubuntu Open Source Systems Administration
  • Europe, Middle East, Africa
  • Jul 16, 2026

We're enabling high-performing, rock-solid MongoDB deployments on any cloud or platform our customers choose. We want to create the world's best open source analog to MongoDB Altas or Amazon DocumentDB, which can be owned, controlled and operated by end-users on their own…

Kraken
Backend Development Full-time ↘ +15 regions
Rust Finance Infrastructure +12 Culture Payments Compliance Management Make Microsoft Teams Architecture Engineering Writing Apache Kafka Fintech Compliance Risk
  • Poland, Brazil, Peru +12SwedenColombiaArgentinaRomaniaCyprusSouth AfricaCzech RepublicHungaryMexicoChileSpainBulgaria
  • Jul 13, 2026

Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open,…

Kota
Insurance Workday APIs +12 Documentation Payroll FAR Make Architecture MATCH AI Planning Fintech Compliance Engineering Programming
  • Remote (Global)
  • Sep 8, 2025

Kota is making insurance and retirement benefits as accessible as modern software. We do this across two products: Kota Platform, the first fully integrated benefits platform, and Kota Embed, our embedded insurance and retirement product for platforms.

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