(1535) Staff Backend Engineer (.NET)

Join Nortal for your next big adventure. We are seeking **Staff Backend Engineer (.NET)** to join our team, grow with us, and teach us a few things along the way. **Why join Nortal** - **Say Goodbye to Micromanagement:** We champion autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity as our core values. - **Outcomes Over Hours:** We believe in a work model focused on impact, providing you with the flexibility to balance your professional success with your personal well-being. - **Vibrant Community:** Join our close-knit LATAM remote team and connect through tech talks, virtual coffee breaks, and team-building activities. - **Support from Day One:** Our People Care team is here to support you throughout your journey, from wellness check-ins to professional growth. **Our benefits** ✨ - **Competitive USD salary.** - **100% remote work:** While you can work from anywhere, you’re always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM. - **Paid time off & national holidays:** Take the time you need according to your country’s regulations while receiving your full salary. - **Sick leave:** Focus on your health without stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better. - **Annual credit:** Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance. - **Team-building activities:** Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community. - **Birthday off:** Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family. **About the project** As a Staff Backend Engineer (.NET), you will help shape our newer cloud-native web application running on Azure, architecting complex distributed systems, driving technical decisions, and setting the technical bar for the team. You will work deeply across system design, database architecture, cloud infrastructure, and the microservices that power the product. As a senior individual contributor, you will mentor fellow engineers, influence architectural direction, and champion clean, maintainable, and performant code. This role is ideal for you if you enjoy solving hard technical problems, have strong opinions about engineering best practices, and want to shape the technology, architecture, and future direction of the platform. **What you’ll do** - **Design** scalable, distributed backend systems and microservices for our cloud-native Azure application. - **Build** clean, secure, and performant services and APIs using Core, C#, GraphQL, and Hot Chocolate. - **Own** database architecture, including Azure SQL schema design, EF Core migrations, query tuning, indexing, and multi-tenant data isolation. - **Define** reliable patterns for messaging, distributed transactions, eventual consistency, idempotency, and cross-service failure handling. - **Lead** technical decisions and establish standards that prioritize scalability, quality, and long-term maintainability. - **Apply** application and cloud security best practices across authentication, authorization, secrets, access controls, networking, and API infrastructure. - **Collaborate** with Angular developers, product leaders, and engineering leaders to translate business needs into clear contracts and scalable solutions. - **Diagnose** production issues across application, database, infrastructure, and network layers using observability and monitoring tools. - **Mentor** engineers, share best practices, and raise the team’s technical bar through design guidance and code reviews. - **Incorporate** AI-assisted development tools into professional engineering workflows to improve delivery and code quality. **What makes you a great fit** - Bachelor´s Degree in Computer science, Engineering or a related field. - **7+ years of professional .NET experience**, with expert-level knowledge of Core and C#. - **3+ years of architectural ownership**, designing scalable distributed systems and driving technical decisions. - Deep Azure SQL expertise, including schema design, execution plans, indexing, transaction isolation, and query tuning. - Expert proficiency in Entity Framework Core, including complex queries, live-database migrations, performance optimization, and appropriate use of raw SQL.