Senior Backend Orchestration Engineer - Remote

Jobgether; Norway; Remote; NOK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Equity

Holiday policy

Coworking access

Company retreat

Home office support

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in orchestration to join a globally distributed engineering team in a fully remote role based in Norway. You will design and implement core backend services powering high-performance distributed systems for cross-border payments, focusing on scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

You'll own key technical decisions, practice TDD/BDD, review code, and contribute to developer experience for customers and partners.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals and full SDLC understanding.
• Experience designing backend services for distributed systems.
• Knowledge of developer frameworks and integration workflows.
• Proficiency in a backend language (Python advantageous).
• Familiarity with TDD/BDD and modern development practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain core backend services for high-performance distributed systems.
• Take ownership of technical decisions balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, and speed.
• Build and optimize backend architecture to support growth and product evolution.
• Write clean, well-tested code following engineering standards.
• Contribute to documentation and developer experience for customers and partners.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Conduct code reviews and share knowledge to improve practices.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Python

TDD/BDD

Developer frameworks

Payments knowledge

Remote collaboration

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in orchestration to join a globally distributed engineering team in a fully remote role based in Norway. You will design and implement core backend services powering high-performance distributed systems for cross-border payments, focusing on scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

You'll own key technical decisions, practice TDD/BDD, review code, and contribute to developer experience for customers and partners.