Cloud Backend Engineer – IoT & APIs

SBG; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

SBG is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, develop, and support cloud-native backend services and REST APIs for connected products. You will work within a global engineering team to deliver reliable software, improve quality, and enable scalable IoT solutions.

The role emphasizes C#/.NET, Azure, and modern engineering practices, with collaboration across product, QA, operations, firmware, and mobile teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, building and supporting production software.
• Hands-on programming with C#/.NET, Java, or similar OO language.
• Experience developing or consuming REST APIs and backend services.
• Working knowledge of databases and data access patterns.
• Experience with Git, code reviews, and modern software practices.
• Experience writing automated tests and debugging.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a software engineering team.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and willingness to learn new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs.
• Implement features using C#/.NET with established patterns and testing.
• Integrate services with databases, queues, storage, and cloud components.
• Write unit and integration tests and conduct code reviews.
• Troubleshoot production issues via logs, metrics, and dependencies.
• Participate in L3 support with senior engineers to root cause issues.
• Collaborate with product, QA, ops, firmware, mobile, and other teams.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and system architecture.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Skills

C#/.NET

Java

REST APIs

Databases

Git/Version control

Automated tests

Collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Azure

App Services

Functions

Cosmos DB

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

SBG is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, develop, and support cloud-native backend services and REST APIs for connected products. You will work within a global engineering team to deliver reliable software, improve quality, and enable scalable IoT solutions.

The role emphasizes C#/.NET, Azure, and modern engineering practices, with collaboration across product, QA, operations, firmware, and mobile teams.