Backed Developer (.Net/SQL)

We are seeking a hands-on Backend Software Engineer to join a high-velocity engineering team building and supporting scalable, production-grade services. This role is heavily focused on backend development (80 90% coding) with minimal frontend responsibilities. The ideal candidate brings strong engineering fundamentals, real-world API and microservices experience, and a production ownership mindset.

Key Responsbilities:

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs in a production environment
• Contribute to system design discussions and support microservices architecture decisions
• Own features end-to-end: development, testing, deployment, and production support
• Collaborate within a fast-paced Agile team with weekly release cycles
• Debug and resolve issues in live systems with a strong focus on reliability and performance
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-structured code aligned with team standards..

• Primary role as a backend engineer
• 80 90% hands-on coding in backend systems
• Minimal frontend exposure (secondary responsibility only).

2. Core Backend Language Experience

• Strong experience with C# / .NET
• Must be actively coding in backend systems on a daily basis
• Ability to quickly ramp across technologies within the .NET ecosystem.

3. API Development (Critical)

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining APIs in production

• Strong understanding of:

o RESTful API design

• API contracts, inputs/outputs, and error handling

Experience evolving APIs over time.

4. Microservices & Distributed Systems

• Experience working within microservices architecture

• Understanding of:

o Service-to-service communication

• Distributed system behavior
• Ownership of services in production environments

Ability to make informed design decisions on when to use microservices.

5. Containers & Cloud-Native Exposure

• Practical experience with:

o Docker

• Kubernetes

Familiarity with CI/CD concepts:

o Pipelines

• Automated deployments
• Rapid iteration cycles

Understanding how applications run in production environments.

6. SQL Intermediate Level

• Experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL

• Ability to:

o Write and optimize non-trivial SQL queries

• Understand joins, indexing basics, and query performance
• Perform basic tuning and troubleshooting.

7. Strong Engineering Fundamentals

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming:

o Encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance

• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and structured code
• Familiarity with design patterns (e.g., decorator, singleton, etc.)
• Ability to quickly adapt to and navigate existing codebases

8. Ownership & Production Mindset

• End-to-end ownership of development tasks:

o Implementation testing deployment production support

• Strong focus on production quality and system reliability
• Experience working on high-visibility systems with real user impact
• Comfortable debugging issues post-release

9. Problem-Solving & First-Principles Thinking

• Ability to solve complex and ambiguous problems
• Proactively asks clarifying questions before implementation
• Can clearly explain decision-making and trade-offs

Agile / High-Velocity Environment

• Experience working in:

o Weekly sprints

• Rapid release cycles

Familiarity with:

o GitHub

• Jira
• Confluence

Comfortable with fast feedback loops and frequent deployments

Experience Level

• 3+ years of strong backend engineering experience

• Target level: Mid-level engineer

• Depth of hands-on experience and fundamentals preferred over title