Company: WBWR
Location: Somerset West
Job Type: Full time
Experience: 1 year of backend development

Are you passionate about building scalable, high performance backends with Node.js and C#?

Do you enjoy clean architecture, building scalable APIs, and solving complex integrations? If you’re a backend developer who thrives in a fast moving environment and loves bringing efficient solutions to life, then WBWR wants to meet you.

About Us

WBWR is a digital experience agency based in Somerset West. We build world class digital products for bold, ambitious brands. We work from the WorkWiser co working space with a flat, collaborative team structure, and a culture centred on quality, ownership, growth, and good coffee.

Our dev team is a mix of full stack, frontend and backend engineers working across web, mobile, and backend services. You’ll be joining a capable crew solving meaningful business problems.

Your Role

You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining backend services in Node.js (TypeScript) and C# (.NET Core), integrating with external APIs, supporting large scale data flows, and ensuring performance, reliability, and security across our client projects.

You’ll work closely with our front end developers, project managers, and QA to deliver backend systems that are a pleasure to integrate with and a joy to maintain.

What You’ll Work On

RESTful and GraphQL APIs powering web and mobile experiences
ERP and third party API integrations
Backend services deployed to Google Cloud or AWS
Database interactions including SQL, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Firebase
Clean Architecture patterns and modular service design
Job queues, background workers, batch processors
Logging, monitoring, and error tracking including Sentry and Cloud Logging

What We’re Looking For

A minimum of 1 year experience building backend applications
A basic but growing understanding of Node.js with TypeScript
Some experience using C# and .NET Core to build simple APIs or service layers
A good grasp of REST principles and asynchronous programming
Some exposure to integrating with external APIs
An interest in modern architecture patterns including Clean and SOLID
Basic familiarity with SQL or NoSQL databases
Comfortable using Git and GitHub for version control
Strong willingness to learn, ask questions, and improve
Eager to understand cloud platforms like GCP or AWS

What We Offer

Competitive salary based on experience
Hybrid work model after in office onboarding for 3 months
A collaborative team that moves fast and supports one another
MacBook, monitor, and equipment setup provided
Access to Udemy and other resources to upskill
Coffee. Really good coffee.
A chance to work on projects that make a real impact for recognisable names