Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Appfire, a remote-first company, and enjoy the flexibility to work from anywhere, balance your life, and grow professionally. As a Software Engineer at 7pace, an Appfire company, you will collaborate with a cross-functional team to design, build, and maintain application features. You will follow best engineering practices, contribute to product discussions, and champion improvements. Appfire offers a comprehensive benefits package including financial incentives, skills development opportunities, generous paid time off, flexible work arrangements, and private healthcare insurance. Choose Appfire and customize your work experience.

Requirements

• Proficiency with back-end technologies, specifically API development with .NET and C#
• Truly engineering approach to solving problems. Strong theoretical foundations of computer science (e.g. data structures, algorithms and computational complexity, FP , OOP ) are highly practical in the ever-changing landscape of technologies
• Strong understanding of modern microservice architectures, and practical experience implementing them in the cloud (Azure, GCP or AWS), familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Solid architectural understanding of web applications, including performance, quality and security aspects
• Desire and ability to learn and mentor others and help shape the team’s culture
• Command of English at level B2 or higher

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a self-organizing, cross-functional product team and cooperate closely with Software Engineers, UX Designers, Product Managers, Team Leaders, and with other specialists like Product Marketeers and Support Engineers
• Design, build and maintain application features that bring value to our customers
• Follow and establish the best engineering practices: coding standards, automated testing, code reviews, pair programming to build high-quality software that is scalable, reliable, robust and maintainable
• Share your thoughts openly and honestly about what is best for our customers and the business: you will be part of discussions about the future of our products and Appfire
• Be the change you seek - champion improvements within the team and products, taking a proactive approach to innovation and process enhancement
• Take ownership of your work - decide how you structure your day and assignments. We do not micromanage and strongly support work-life balance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Node.js with Typescript
• Familiarity with SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL or MSSQL are preferred)

Benefits

• Every Appfire employee is eligible for company equity
• Work from-home allowance: 50€ gross per month for 11 months a year (i.e. Excluding Holidays)
• Access to the Appfire University learning platform – a hub of knowledge, interactive resources, and engaging instructor-led courses designed to fuel your learning journey with unparalleled depth and accessibility
• 25 working days of paid annual leave
• Reduced summer hours: From July 1st until the end of August, we work 6 hours daily
• Flexible bank holiday policy, which allows you to exchange a government-set public holiday for a more convenient time off
• Private healthcare insurance
• Annual sport allowance
• 3 fully paid days each year to participate in Appfire Town, Appfire’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program