Senior Backend Software Engineer

Required Qualifications

• Like to explore innovative technologies, including AI tools and agentic workflows, and continuously expand your skills.
• Ambitious and execution-focused, with strong ability to balance functional and non-functional requirements when designing solutions.
• A proven track record of taking end-to-end ownership of complex backend systems and actively maintaining operational awareness.
• Skilled at breaking down complex, ambiguous initiatives into vertical slices that deliver value incrementally; you default to shipping in small, regular batches rather than big-bang releases.
• Comfortable working in Agile, cross-functional teams (backend, frontend, Finance, partners), and an active participant in creating an open, collaborative environment.
• Excellent English communication skills and the ability to interact with all levels of the organization, internally and externally with partners/customers.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and scaling production backend systems, including having designed event-driven, queue/job-based architectures.
• Strong experience building TypeScript or JavaScript (Node.js, NestJS) microservices on cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Experience leading design discussions, mentoring engineers, or acting as a technical point of contact for a team or domain.
• Hands-on experience with test-driven development, test automation, integration and load testing.
• Strong SQL and data-modelling skills, with the discipline needed for financially accurate, auditable data.
• Experience integrating external and internal IT systems, and solid API design.
• Experience with developing secure software is a plus.
• Knowledge of Redis and NoSQL databases is an advantage.
• Experience working with or integrating ERP systems (e.g. Microsoft Business Central) is an advantage.
• Experience with billing, payments, invoicing, or other financial/transactional systems is a strong plus.
• Hands-on experience using AI assistants and/or agentic workflows to improve engineering productivity is a plus.