Senior back-end developer

Location: Cape Town On-Site (only considering candidates from Cape Town)

Type: Full-Time The Position

As a Senior Back-End Developer at Loot, you’ll play a critical role in developing, optimizing, and maintaining the back-end systems that power our high-performance e-commerce platform. You'll work on applications that manage millions of products and serve thousands of customers daily.

In this role, you will be deeply involved in architectural decisions, legacy modernization, and building scalable and secure APIs that drive both our customer-facing and internal platforms. You’ll collaborate with a small, focused, and highly capable team closely aligned with the business, contributing to all aspects of the development lifecycle—from design to deployment.

Loot primarily operates as a Java house , with a modern front end built in Next.js , deployed both on-premises and in the cloud. While Java is at our core, we work with a wide range o...