Integration Engineer – API & Azure (C# / .NET)

Virgin Active; England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension (The Peoples Pension)

Private dental and healthcare

Life assurance 4x salary

Discounts across Virgin Group

Job summary

Virgin Active is transforming into Social Wellness Clubs and building backend integrations to connect our mobile applications and internal platforms across multiple countries. As an Integration Engineer (mid or senior), you will design, build and support backend services, APIs and integrations using C#, .NET and Azure, collaborating with Product, QA and frontend engineers.

This hands-on role offers ownership and opportunities to lead complex integrations at senior level, while contributing to

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services, APIs and system integrations using C# and .NET.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and its integration services.
• A good understanding of RESTful APIs, event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging.
• Experience integrating internal platforms with third-party systems.
• Knowledge of automated testing, CI/CD and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot distributed systems and integration failures.
• A collaborative approach and the ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services, APIs and integration solutions using C#, .NET and Microsoft Azure.
• Connect our mobile applications and digital products with internal platforms and third-party systems.
• Develop secure, scalable and maintainable solutions using API-led and event-driven integration patterns.
• Work with Product, QA and frontend engineers to deliver high-quality features from design through to release.
• Write clean, testable code and contribute to code reviews and engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot integration failures, production issues and performance problems.
• Improve automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and system observability.
• Contribute to sprint planning, technical discussions and delivery estimates.
• Identify opportunities to simplify solutions, reduce technical debt and improve reliability.
• At senior level, lead the technical delivery of complex integrations.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and engineering standards.
• Provide technical guidance and support to other engineers.
• Identify technical risks and help the team make pragmatic trade-offs.

Skills

C#

.NET

Microsoft Azure

Backend services

RESTful APIs

Event-driven architecture

CI/CD

Testing

Tools

Azure Service Bus

Logic Apps

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Virgin Active is transforming into Social Wellness Clubs and building backend integrations to connect our mobile applications and internal platforms across multiple countries. As an Integration Engineer (mid or senior), you will design, build and support backend services, APIs and integrations using C#, .NET and Azure, collaborating with Product, QA and frontend engineers.

This hands-on role offers ownership and opportunities to lead complex integrations at senior level, while contributing to