Senior Backend Engineer

Contract type: Full Time, PermanentThis is a remote first role, UK Based About the roleThe Back-End engineer is pivotal in supporting the creation of Cera’s solutions for both our carers and customers. A key focus of this role is to ensure that teams are enabled to develop Cera’s technology helping us to provide great care to all of our customers while improving the experience of everyone involved in care delivery. You will wear many hats in this role, working with our engineering teams (on and off shore), UX teams and Product teams. This requires a deep knowledge of our processes and a passion for using technology and people to improve them. Your work will have a huge impact on the way that care is experienced.About youYou thrive in mission-driven organizations, working with collaborative teams who are passionate about utilising technology and building products to better the world around us. You have worked in an engineering role for around five years and champion development best practice. You have the ability to work with a number of scrum teams supporting them in their approach to software development and technical architecture.Role and responsibilities:Developing new features and APIs with reusability, scalability and performance in mindParticipation in continuous improvement of the codebase, it’s architecture, testability and reliabilityCollaborating with team leads and architects ensuring the proposed solutions are technically feasible and scalableCollaborating with front end engineers and supporting their needs as a part of the feature developmentAs an experienced Back End Engineer you’ll have experience of the following:Strong understanding of C#, .NET Core 3.1+5+ years of experience in building enterprise grade backend services in C#/.NET/.NET CoreExperience in working with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases eg. DynamoDBSupporting your code by writing unit tests and integration tests utilizing Gherkin/SpecFlowExperience with AWS infrastructure, dockerized environmentsWillingness to learn infrastructure as code (terraform) and it’s maintenanceWorking in agile environmentsDesirable experience for a Lead Engineer:Orchestrating and scaling microservices on AWS infrastructureResiliency - monitoring, logging, raising alarms and diagnosticsAsynchronous message based communication between the services, eventual consistency and the SAGA patternStrong understanding of OOP in .NET Core applicationsPerformance driven data layer designThis is an opportunity for an experienced engineer to build meaningful technology that helps a growing aging population live healthier lives in their own homes.