Backend Software Developer
Gees Talent · Cape Town
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Taurine Technology is a Cape Town startup building Axon , an AI-powered network management platform that gives providers deeper insight, better control and agentic workflows. Axon is hardware-agnostic, running on anything from a Raspberry Pi to a firewall at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. Our customers range from schools running small networks to ISPs serving tens of thousands of subscribers
- Senior or mid-level position
- Cape Town based (remote role)
- Python & Go AI-native team
Duties & Responsibilities
You'll own meaningful parts of the Axon controller, which turns millions of telemetry data points per site into insight and control. You'll also build the LLM tooling our agents use to classify traffic, troubleshoot and enforce policy, delivered over MCP.
- High-throughput telemetry ingestion under tight CPU, memory and diskbudgets
- Systems resilient to unreliable links and offline devices, built for remote networks
- MCP integrations that let agents act autonomously while keeping operators in the loop
- New traffic intelligence features, from classification through to anomaly
- detection
Desired Experience & Qualification
Must haves
- Minimum 3–5 years building backend production systems
- Strong Python and Go abilities
- Strong understanding of network fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, VLANs, etc.
- Docker and Linux
- Fluent with AI dev tools, such as
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor etc.
Strong pluses
- Time-series data at volume (TimescaleDB or similar)
- Message-driven systems
- Software-defined networking, SNMP, OpenFlow/OVS
- Building tools for LLMs (MCP, function calling)
- Experience configuring network equipment
How We Work
Small team, high ownership, short path from idea to production networks.
We use AI coding agents aggressively, so you'll direct and review at least as much as you type.
The code you write reaches customers within days.
Interested?
Send you CV and a note explaionijg why you are a fit and why this role exites you to Steph, cvs@geestalent.com.
We can't wait to meet you!