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# Senior/Lead Backend Engineer (Remote)

- **Company:** Fuse Energy
- **Location:** Netherlands (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** AWS Cdk, Backend
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5706447470

## About the Role

* Demonstrable excellence as a software engineer
 * Ideally 2+ years of experience
 * Proven ability to define and build complex systems
 * Hands-on experience shipping highly available production systems
 * Clear communication
 * Bonus: infrastructure as code (e.g. AWS CDK); experience in the energy sector; experience shipping consumer-facing products

## Description

We're hiring a Senior/Lead Backend Engineer to build the core digital infrastructure for a next-generation energy company. This is a remote role. You'll work closely with product across the full back-end and engineer backend systems that are second to none.

Responsibilities

 * Construct a real-time digital twin of our renewable generation and customer demand
 * Develop messaging interfaces with our third-party providers
 * Build high-volume pipelines for processing customer energy consumption
 * Build the backend of a world-class energy app
 * Take ownership of projects, adapt to new business needs and drive change


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