TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (C#): Building and delivering highly available, zero downtime API products and solutions with an accent on scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. Focus on designing HTTP APIs, cloud technologies, and mentoring engineers in a remote-first consultancy environment.

Location: Remote (Portugal)

Company

%hirify_global% is a remote-first consultancy specializing in software engineering, product design, and data, with teams across London, Lisbon, and Porto.

What you will do

Architect, design, build, and deliver highly available API products and solutions.
Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and colleagues to deliver value-driven solutions.
Write clear, maintainable, and scalable code.
Contribute to production operation, monitoring, and SLA awareness.
Mentor engineers through code reviews and pair programming.
Drive good practices and improve team processes.

Requirements

Must be legally able to live and work in Portugal.
Senior experience with modern .NET applications in C# and .NET Core.
Experience designing HTTP APIs using ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI.
Knowledge of test-driven development and comprehensive test strategies.
Understanding of distributed systems, cloud technologies (preferably Azure), and event sourcing.
Experience with CI/CD, agile environments, and flexible on-call availability.

Nice to have

Experience building high-performance API products and launching APIs to internal and external consumers.
Experience with cloud systems, especially Azure.
Familiarity with hosted document databases like MongoDB and Cosmos DB.
Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging.

Culture & Benefits

Company private health care.
Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave up to 6 months.
25 days annual holiday excluding public holidays.
€2000 annual training/conference allowance and €300 hardware allowance.
Mental health support via Spill app and meditation/sleep support via Headspace or Calm.
Company laptop and generous referral schemes.

Hiring process

First interview with Talent team (30-45 mins).
Take-home challenge (~1 hour).
Technical interview with developers (1.5 hours).