Senior .NET Backend Engineer – Remote, Distributed Systems

Niuro; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Niuro is seeking a senior backend engineer to own and deliver distributed backend systems. You will design services and APIs, implement robust messaging and data processing, and ensure correctness with modern .NET stacks and cloud tooling.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, production reliability, and collaboration with product teams. Remote, globally distributed teams and ongoing career development are highlighted.

Qualifications

• Senior backend engineer with 8+ years of software development experience.
• 4+ recent years with modern C#/.NET tooling and frameworks.
• Proficiency in English at C1 level or higher.

Responsibilities

• Clarify business problems with Product and stakeholders, investigate legacy behavior, and define clear acceptance criteria.
• Design and build backend services, including website and calculation APIs that communicate through asynchronous workflows.
• Develop reliable distributed processing with concurrent workers, duplicate and out-of-order messages, retries, dead-letter queues, and exactly-once effects on tax and financial data.
• Create technical plans that explain risks and trade-offs, secure approval, and drive implementation through production.
• Use Claude Code as part of daily engineering work, reviewing and validating generated solutions for correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and help maintain service reliability during tax season.

Skills

C#

ASP.NET Core

Entity Framework Core

Dapper

AWS

Amazon SQS

PostgreSQL

Redis

CQRS

Distributed Systems

Async/Await

Concurrency

Background Workers

Dependency Injection

Claude Code

Claude

Tools

AWS

Amazon SQS

Job description

Niuro is seeking a senior backend engineer to own and deliver distributed backend systems. You will design services and APIs, implement robust messaging and data processing, and ensure correctness with modern .NET stacks and cloud tooling.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, production reliability, and collaboration with product teams. Remote, globally distributed teams and ongoing career development are highlighted.