Senior Backend Engineer (.NET Core)

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Job Title:

Senior Backend Engineer (.NET Core)

Location:

Nashik, India

Employment Type:

Full time

Experience:

8+ years

The job

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (.NET Core) to join our team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with additional responsibility to guide and mentor backend engineers across senior, mid, and junior levels.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in .NET Core (8.0+), microservices architecture, API design, and cloud-native development on Azure. The candidate will actively contribute to platform-level backend services, shared components, and integrations across EcoTools and Unify initiatives, while helping establish backend engineering best practices across the team.

Key responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using .NET Core (8.0+).

- Build microservices-based backend APIs and tools aligned with EcoTools platform architecture.

- Develop secure and high-performance REST APIs used by micro frontend applications and other services.

- Contribute to backend architecture decisions, including service design, API standards, authentication, and data access patterns.

- Integrate backend services with platform services such as authentication, messaging, logging, and shared Unify components.

- Ensure backend solutions meet non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, reliability, and security).

- Guide and mentor backend engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and architectural best practices.

- Collaborate with frontend engineers, DevOps, and platform teams to ensure seamless system integration.

- Implement unit and integration tests to ensure high code quality and reliability.

- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and observability improvements.

- Participate in technical documentation, ADR discussions, and architectural governance reviews.

- Support engineering teams in troubleshooting production issues and improving system stability.

Essential requirements

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- 6–9 years of hands-on backend development experience using

.NET Core / ASP.NET Core.

- AI Skill Level: Has built or contributed to AI-powered features. Understands prompt, design, evaluation, guardrails, and failure modes.

- Have hands on in spec/skill driven

agentic AI development.

- Strong expertise in REST API design, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.

- Experience working with

Azure cloud services (App Services, Azure SQL, Event Hub, Service Bus, or similar).

- Solid understanding of authentication and authorization mechanisms (OAuth2, JWT, OpenID Connect) .

- Experience with database technologies such as S

QL Server, PostgreSQL, or NoSQL systems.

- Strong knowledge of clean architecture principles, SOLID design patterns, and scalable backend design.

- Experience working in Agile software development environments.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

- Strong problem-solving skills, debugging, and performance optimization skills, ownership mindset, and ability to collaborate across teams.

- Experience working in Agile software development methodologies.

- Ability to manage responsibilities independently and deliver results within deadlines.

Desired skills and competencies

- Experience with distributed application frameworks such as Dapr.

- Exposure to event-driven architectures and messaging systems.

- Familiarity with API Management, gateway patterns, and platform integrations.

- Experience working with large-scale SaaS platforms and micro services architectures.

- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices.