Backend Developer

Role: Backend Developer. Location: Harrismith, Free State. The team is hiring and seeks a candidate who can step in and deliver from week one.

What This Role Involves

The Backend Developer position is part of an ongoing recruitment drive across Free State. The brief has been shaped carefully, with a focus on delivery in Harrismith and across the it jobs space.

On top of that, the successful applicant is given the room to plan, deliver and review their work without unnecessary noise. The organisation has built its Harrismith team on trust, and the Backend Developer role will feel that from week one.

Reasonable working hours and respectful planning are part of how the role runs. The team values strong delivery, and load is balanced fairly across the it jobs group in Harrismith.

Why Join Us

In addition, the company invests in the people who join it. From structured onboarding to ongoing skills development, you will find clear paths to grow your career in it jobs from your base in Harrismith. Many colleagues across Free State have moved into senior roles after starting in positions just like this one.

Recognition matters here. Strong performers are noticed quickly, and many promotions across the business have started in the Harrismith teams.

Practically speaking, the company reinvests in its people: paid training, internal moves and the chance to take on bigger projects are all part of how careers in Harrismith keep progressing.

Growing With Us

This role can grow with you. Strong performers in the it jobs team in Harrismith have moved into senior, supervisory and specialist positions, and that journey is supported through coaching, training and exposure to bigger projects.

Training is a mix of formal courses, structured on-the-job learning and exposure to broader projects, all geared at building practical skills.

Growth conversations happen at a regular cadence — not just at year-end — so the path forward stays current and realistic for every Harrismith team member.

About Harrismith

Working in Harrismith means a place within the Maluti-A-Phofung logistics node, with a steady flow of activity and a strong local economy. The team has built solid relationships across the Free State region, and the Harrismith office benefits from those long-standing connections.

Many candidates already living within reach of Harrismith cite the location as one of the role’s quiet wins, with shorter commutes and a real sense of being plugged into the local Free State economy.

If you are relocating, the team can share practical pointers on neighbourhoods, transport and the typical pace of life in Harrismith, Free State.

Your Role

• Optimise database queries and back-end performance hot-spots
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripts and tooling
• Manage user access, identity and endpoint security across the estate
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and structured feedback
• Implement security best practices in line with POPIA obligations
• Investigate and resolve user-reported support tickets at L2 and L3

Who We’re Looking For

• Strong proficiency in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript or TypeScript
• Understanding of secure development principles aligned with POPIA
• Ability to mentor junior team members on best practices
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tooling
• Good written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences
• Reliable home internet for hybrid work where applicable
• 2-5 years’ commercial software development experience

Each application is reviewed carefully, and strong matches against the criteria above will move forward in the process.