Senior .NET Backend Engineer - Microservices & Cloud

Ignition group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Ignition is expanding its engineering team to scale a financial platform for tier-1 institutions across Australia, the UK, and Europe. You will drive new features end-to-end, influence architecture with the Principal Engineer, and own testing and DevOps practices in a fast-paced, rigorous environment.

The role emphasizes modern engineering patterns, measurable outcomes, and collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of development experience with C# and .NET (incl. .NET 6+)
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures
• Hands-on with AWS data services including DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Aurora Serverless
• Strong API design knowledge (REST and gRPC)
• Observability practices: structured logging, tracing, metrics
• Security-conscious development: auth, authorization, secure coding
• Experience with containerised workloads (Docker)
• Experience with third-party integrations and integration patterns
• Deep knowledge of software design patterns and best practices
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing (unit/integration/E2E)
• Familiarity with Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket
• Experience in Agile/Scrum delivery teams

Responsibilities

• Lead development of new features across core financial advice platform
• Contribute to architecture decisions with Principal Engineer
• Design and implement services in microservices/event-driven architecture
• Apply engineering practices including TDD, trunk-based development, CD
• Own automated testing across unit, integration, and E2E
• Participate in code reviews to raise code quality
• Evolve engineering standards, design patterns, and practices
• Contribute to DevOps including CI/CD, platform work, incident response
• Mentor colleagues and share knowledge within the team

Skills

C#/.NET

Microservices

AWS data services

REST/gRPC

Observability

Security best practices

Docker

Third-party integrations

Design patterns

CI/CD

Atlassian tools

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Docker

Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket

Job description

Ignition is expanding its engineering team to scale a financial platform for tier-1 institutions across Australia, the UK, and Europe. You will drive new features end-to-end, influence architecture with the Principal Engineer, and own testing and DevOps practices in a fast-paced, rigorous environment.

The role emphasizes modern engineering patterns, measurable outcomes, and collaboration across cross-functional teams.