Principal Software Backend Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, secure, and high-performance REST APIs using C# / .NET

• Contribute to backend architecture with a strong emphasis on scalability, resilience, maintainability, and security

• Develop and enhance authentication services, single sign-on (SSO), identity federation, and standards such as OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect

• Design systems for authorization, including roles, permissions, access controls, and entitlement rules

• Contribute to cross-cutting services that are utilized across the organization

• Design and create shared services to distribute common features and capabilities

• Engage in the AI platform, including inference services, integration of intelligent capabilities, orchestration, and agent-based use cases

• Construct reusable backend components and packages (NuGet) to enhance technical consistency and reuse

• Develop within a microservices environment featuring clear interfaces and well-defined responsibilities

• Integrate services with Forterro products in a reliable, consistent, and user-friendly manner

• Ensure quality through automated testing, code reviews, and ongoing improvement initiatives

• Contribute to technical decisions, architecture, and backend best practices

• Optimize performance, data access, and integration workflows

• Contribute to CI/CD practices and the industrialization of services

• Participate in observability, monitoring, and DevOps practices

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong command of C# / .NET with proven experience in web backend development (ASP.NET, APIs)

• Architectural mindset with the ability to design robust, scalable, and maintainable backend systems

• Experience in API design, including the creation and integration of secure REST APIs

• Familiarity with distributed systems, particularly microservices and modular architecture

• Solid understanding of security and identity, including authentication, authorization, and identity management

• Knowledge of identity standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SSO, and identity federation

• Capability to design backend services that are utilized across multiple products

• Proficiency in software quality practices, including unit and integration testing

• Pragmatic problem-solving skills with the ability to balance trade-offs and articulate technical choices

• Autonomy in working effectively within a remote environment

• Collaborative mindset, actively participating in code reviews and technical discussions

• Comfortable with tools such as GitHub, Jira, and CI/CD pipelines

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote

• Permanent, full-time position

• Tools: GitHub, Jira, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), AWS