Senior Backend Engineer

Lessonspace

Senior Backend Engineer at Lessonspace developing collaborative tools for online learning. Working with a small team to enhance real-time software capabilities while managing feature releases.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇿🇦 South AfricaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCypressDjangoDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptJestKubernetesLinuxNode.jsPythonReactShell ScriptingVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work closely with the rest of the engineering team to deliver solutions ranging from small-scale client assistance to stack-spanning alterations that enable huge new features.
Work with the support and operations teams to understand large client problems from first principles and propose new solutions.
Gain a holistic understanding of the Lessonspace stack, infrastructure and internal development environment, as well as how our customers use us, with an eye to becoming a potent source of internal systems knowledge for other engineers and teams to depend on.
Be able to take full ownership of your feature releases, testing and reliability, ultimately delivering major releases with confidence and minimal assistance.
You will be working at the nexus of engineering, sales and operations and may be engaged to deliver specific features to help larger customers onboard smoothly onto our platform.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A University degree is not needed, but would be ideal.
6+ years of experience in the industry
Experience working in an engineering team and engaging with client-facing work.
Experience with Node.js and related testing frameworks
Experience working with networking and network-driven systems.
Familiarity with Linux (shell scripting primarily, networking a bonus). Note that our entire stack is architected for, and executes on, Linux systems.
Familiarity with Python (Django a bonus).
Bonus: experience in the usual frontend stack: HTML, CSS, Javascript, a reactive framework like Vue or React and frontend testing frameworks like Jest and Cypress.
Bonus: experience with AWS (or GCP / Azure).
Bonus: experience with WebRTC or CRDTs.
Bonus: devops knowledge - Nomad (or Kubernetes) and Docker.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Lessonspace is a fully-remote team based all around the world, but we have offices in Cape Town. Should it be practical and should you live in the area, we may occasionally ask you to join us in person. Nonetheless, most of your time will be remote.
You will report directly to the CTO.
Competitive South African remuneration and employee incentive scheme.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Node.jsLinuxPythonHTMLCSSJavaScriptVue.jsReactTesting FrameworksDevOps Knowledge