Backend Staff Engineer

• Translate product and system requirements into scalable backend designs

• Lead the design and development of backend services using C# 12 and .NET 8

• Define backend architecture for cloud-connected products

• Review critical technical designs and code, especially in areas that affect reliability, security, scalability, or maintainability

• Design solutions with a focus on high availability, resilience and long-term maintainability

• Guide teams on distributed-system concerns 

• Collaborate closely with our internal and external teams including hardware, firmware and QA 

• Improve engineering practices around deployment and monitoring

• Support root-cause analysis and drive durable corrective actions after production issues

• Mentor engineers and help raise the technical maturity of the backend engineering organization

• Make pragmatic technical trade-offs between speed, quality, cost, risk, and long-term maintainability.

We are looking for an experienced engineer with strong technical leadership capabilities and a system-level mindset. Furthermore, we will look for:

• Extensive experience building backend systems using C# and .NET

• Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production

• Practical experience with Akka.NET and actor-based architectures

• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture on Microsoft Azure

• Experience with event-driven systems, message queues, background processing, and distributed workflows

• Strong knowledge of API design, versioning, authentication, and authorization

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Redis, or similar technologies

• Good understanding of observability, including structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting and dashboards

• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and production operations

• Strong engineering judgment and the ability to simplify complex technical problems

• The ability to influence technical decisions across teams without relying on formal authority

• A strong focus on reliability, maintainability, security, and operational excellence

• Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• A mentoring mindset and a desire to help other engineers grow

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills at both code and system level

Nice to have experience with: 

• Cloud-connected embedded products, IoT systems, building automation, industrial systems, energy systems, or similar high-reliability environments. 

• Azure IoT Hub, Device Provisioning Service, Digital Twins, MQTT, or edge-to-cloud architectures 

• Event sourcing, CQRS, domain-driven design, or stateful distributed systems

• Docker or Bicep

• OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, Azure Monitor, or similar observability platforms

• Security-by-design practices, including identity, secrets management, secure communication, and least-privilege access. 

• Reliability engineering practices such as failure-mode analysis, chaos testing, operational readiness reviews, and post-incident learning

• Products with long lifecycles, high uptime expectations, and low maintenance requirements