Backend Engineer, .Net

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain backend services and APIs utilized across the Sweed platform.

• Engage with C#/.NET, relational databases, queues, caching, and integrations.

• Enhance performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability of live systems.

• Contribute to the evolution of architecture, including microservices and components of the existing monolith.

• Take ownership of technical solutions from design to production in collaboration with product, frontend, QA, DevOps, and backend engineers.

• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development speed, contextual understanding, and quality.

• Work on both internal and external APIs; including eCommerce, checkout, order management, payments, inventory, or reporting flows; performance enhancements; refactoring; technical debt reduction; monolith decomposition; asynchronous communication; background processing; queues; caching; observability; troubleshooting; and ensuring production reliability.

• Engage in two-week sprints, technical discussions, planning sessions, retrospectives, and cross-functional teamwork.

• Join in rotating weekly support duties approximately once every two months during regular working hours.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong commercial backend development experience with C# and .NET.

• Proven experience in building and supporting production systems.

• Solid understanding of backend architecture, APIs, databases, and distributed systems.

• Familiarity with microservices, queues, caching, asynchronous processing, or background jobs.

• Capability to troubleshoot production and performance challenges.

• Proficient in clarifying requirements, making technical decisions, and guiding solutions to production.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

• Proficient in English for written communication and occasional calls.

• Experience using AI tools in software development workflows is a plus.

• Nice to have: experience with high-load systems.

• Nice to have: knowledge in eCommerce, payments, checkout, order management, inventory, or reporting.

• Nice to have: experience in decomposing monoliths or enhancing legacy systems.

• Nice to have: familiarity with Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, or monitoring.

• Nice to have: experience working in product companies or startup-like environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Salary in USD (B2B contract with a US company).

• 100% remote – no office required.

• Flexible work hours with core team availability from 10:00 to 16:00 CET.

• 20 paid vacation days plus 12 holidays per year.

• 3 sick leave days.

• Medical insurance provided after the probation period.

• Equipment reimbursement for laptops, monitors, etc.