Senior Backend Engineer

Exclaimer; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS provider is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their remote team. The role involves technical leadership, working with modern technologies, and contributing to the development of their flagship product. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in .NET and C#, along with a passion for improving code quality and team collaboration. Enjoy a supportive environment with opportunities for growth and a range of benefits including remote work options and healthcare.

Benefits

Remote / Hybrid working

Healthcare

Life insurance

6 weeks - work anywhere option per year

Employee Assistance program

Contributory retirement savings plan

Opportunities for training & development

Great team and culture

Discounts portal

Income protection Insurance

Qualifications

• Hands-on back-end engineer with .NET and C# expertise.
• Experience in a Senior or Leadership role in SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Implement high-quality, peer-reviewed solutions.
• Lead and mentor software engineers.
• Own the full software life cycle from design to deployment.

Skills

.NET

C#

Docker

Microservice Architecture

Unit and Automation testing

Azure

Monitoring

Job description

Senior Backend Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - Remote

Reporting To: Ryan Crawford

Description

Your new company

A tech scale up with Big Plans...

When you join Exclaimer you will join a global award winning SaaS provider with an exceptional revenue rate, ambitious growth plans, and an exciting work culture.

Not Heard of us ?

We provide world-class email signature solutions that let organizations of any size achieve brand consistency, legal compliance, and customer engagement on any device. Designed for Microsoft 365, Google Workplace, and Microsoft Exchange, our solutions are used by over 70,000 customers in 150+ countries. Some of these customers include renowned companies such as Sony, Mattel, Bank of America, NBC, the Government of Canada, the BBC, and the Academy Awards. We have over 300 employees worldwide.

We are looking for great engineers to join the team responsible for the flagship Exclaimer Cloud SaaS (Software as a Service) solution, utilizing the latest technologies in our push to expand the product’s functionality and evolve the technical platform.

As part of the development team, this role is expected to act as a technical leader within the team, working alongside a team of like-minded engineers you will be given the freedom to identify and deliver real world improvements to our customers, and help shape future technical direction. As part of this role, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your abilities, while expanding your knowledge and skill set in a supportive environment.

Working with other engineers across the wider engineering team to ensure the creation of a robust, reusable technical solution serving the needs of both internal and external customers.

If this sounds like the place for you, come and join us at Exclaimer and play your part in the latest chapter of our 23-year history.

Key Responsibilities

• Be an individual contributor, implementing high quality, well tested and peer reviewed solutions, setting an example to the team around you. Implementing clean and consistent peer reviewed technical designs.
• Lead and mentor software engineers, including providing technical guidance and code reviews, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Working as part of small focused agile development team owning the full software life cycle, from design through implementation, test to deployment and monitoring in production.
• Design and develop software for the end-to-end testing lifecycle including; tools, frameworks and automated tests.
• Applying your specialist technical knowledge to create/modify solutions that are able to serve millions of requests every day.
• Create clean, efficient and testable code, in line with company coding standards. Actively seek to improve the performance, code quality and architecture of the solution.
• Continuously drive improvement within yourself and the team, by putting forward improvements to technology stack and processes.
• Support the propagation of knowledge and skills through the development team and help to drive improvements to technical best practices.
• Help to define the technical approach and leading day to day initiatives in the development team. Working with the other engineers, engineering managers and staff engineers to ensure technical approach is in line with technical strategy and industry best practices.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Knowledge and Expertise

• Be a passionate, hands on back-end engineer utilizing the latest version of .NET and C#, with a strong knowledge of development and technical principles, methodologies, and values.
• An experienced and driven individual contributor with the knowledge and skills to guide technical direction, unblocking the development team, and act as a point of technical escalation and knowledge within the team.

Essential Skills

• Experience of key technologies utilized by Exclaimer; C#, .NET, Docker, Microservice Architecture, Unit and Automation testing, Azure (Storage, AKS, SQL, Service Bus and more), and Monitoring (Datadog).
• Strong diagnostics and debugging skills to identify root cause of issues and provide robust solutions to the issues identified.

Desirable Skills

• Experience of working in a Senior or Leadership role in a fast-paced SaaS business to achieve high frequency incremental delivery of customer facing functionality.
• Experience of SMTP, MIME, email processing, and high-performance C# applications is desirable.
• Experience of creating and maintaining high throughput backend services to the core operations of a 24/7 SaaS product.
• Experience of working closely with Product Management and Engineering Managers to identify the solution to the customer/technical problem and break down the work into small incremental deliveries.
• Excellent ability to establish trust and build relationships with engineers, peers, and stakeholders across the business; you will be able to communicate clearly and succinctly without ambiguity.

Benefits

We offer you a challenging job in a growing and truly global international SaaS company with a competitive compensation structure. Ah, and you will be part of a fun and hardworking team:

• Remote / Hybrid working
• Healthcare
• Life insurance
• 6 weeks - work anywhere option per year
• Employee Assistance program
• Contributory retirement savings plan
• Opportunities for training & development
• Great team and culture
• Discounts portal
• Income protection Insurance
• Online GP services

Exclaimer is an equal opportunity employer and people seeking employment with us are considered without regards to race, colour, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.