Senior Software Engineer (C# Backend Development)

Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; hybrid position with in-office work 2 days per week

Company

hirify.global is a restaurant technology and reservation platform serving millions of diners and more than 70,000 restaurant partners as part of Booking Holdings.

What you will do

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable C# .NET backend services and RESTful APIs for the global Private Dining platform.
• Lead projects from technical planning and architectural design through production deployment.
• Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and designers across international offices.
• Apply Test-Driven Development, SOLID principles, dependency injection, and clean code practices.
• Troubleshoot and optimize distributed microservices for reliability, performance, and incident response.
• Mentor team members and share technical knowledge in a collaborative engineering environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with C# and .NET Core.
• Experience building and scaling high-volume RESTful APIs and distributed, event-driven microservices.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented design, design patterns, data structures, SOLID, TDD, and dependency injection.
• Hands-on experience with relational or NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes and full-lifecycle CI/CD delivery into production.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Java backend technologies or full-stack development.
• Experience with AI Spec-Driven Development and Python.
• Experience with big data frameworks such as Databricks, Apache Spark, or Apache Airflow.
• Experience with monitoring, telemetry, log management, and operational incident triage.
• Experience with TeamCity or modern cloud delivery pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Global, collaborative work environment with communication across multiple time zones.
• Up to 20 days per year working from almost anywhere.
• Paid parental leave, generous paid vacation, birthday time off, and paid volunteer time.
• Company-paid therapy sessions, Headspace access, and an annual company-wide week off.
• Career development dollars, leadership development, and access to on-demand learning.
• Travel discounts, health and wellness reimbursement, employee resource groups, social events, and free lunch twice a week.