Varicent is looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to join our Incentives Development team. You will be part of a multidisciplinary group building and enhancing our Incentives product, a single-page web application supported by a C# REST API hosted in AWS. In this role, you will build new features, optimize performance, and ensure scalability for our data-intensive applications.
What You'll Do
- Build new features for the REST API and enhance the AWS infrastructure using C# and AWS CloudFormation.
- Work with product management, designers, and QA to implement new features and enhancements.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure high quality and provide insights to team members.
- Optimize application performance for scalability and low latency across large datasets.
- Develop features using AWS services like Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and Redshift.
- Automate deployments and CI/CD pipelines using Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks to ensure high availability and uptime.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of backend development experience, focusing on data-intensive applications.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language such as C#, Java, or C++.
- Experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Redshift).
- Understanding of ELT/ETL processes and challenges with large-scale data.
- Solid grasp of Software Design fundamentals.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for clean, maintainable code.
Technical Stack
- C#
- AWS (CloudFormation, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, EC2, RDS)
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Incentives Development team, a multidisciplinary group of developers, designers, data scientists, and business professionals.
Varicent is an equal opportunity employer.
