Backend Developer

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Join the Indian unit of a multi-billion dollar German MNC (owned by Schneider Electric) that offers:

·      High Growth: 20% YoY expansion building world-beating software.

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Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer (.NET Core)

Location: Nashik, India

Employment Type: Full time

Experience: 8+ years

The job  

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (.NET Core) to join our team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with additional responsibility to guide and mentor backend engineers across senior, mid, and junior levels.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in .NET Core (8.0+), microservices architecture, API design, and cloud-native development on Azure. The candidate will actively contribute to platform-level backend services, shared components, and integrations across EcoTools and Unify initiatives, while helping establish backend engineering best practices across the team.

Key responsibilities 

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using .NET Core (8.0+).

- Build microservices-based backend APIs and tools aligned with EcoTools platform architecture.

- Develop secure and high-performance REST APIs used by micro frontend applications and other services.

- Contribute to backend architecture decisions, including service design, API standards, authentication, and data access patterns.

- Integrate backend services with platform services such as authentication, messaging, logging, and shared Unify components.

- Ensure backend solutions meet non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, reliability, and security).

- Guide and mentor backend engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and architectural best practices.

- Collaborate with frontend engineers, DevOps, and platform teams to ensure seamless system integration.

- Implement unit and integration tests to ensure high code quality and reliability.

- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and observability improvements.

- Participate in technical documentation, ADR discussions, and architectural governance reviews.

- Support engineering teams in troubleshooting production issues and improving system stability. 

Essential requirements

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- 6–9 years of hands-on backend development experience using .NET Core / ASP.NET Core.

- AI Skill Level: Has built or contributed to AI-powered features. Understands prompt, design, evaluation, guardrails, and failure modes.

- Have hands on in spec/skill driven agentic AI development. 

- Strong expertise in REST API design, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.

- Experience working with Azure cloud services (App Services, Azure SQL, Event Hub, Service Bus, or similar).

- Solid understanding of authentication and authorization mechanisms (OAuth2, JWT, OpenID Connect).

- Experience with database technologies such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or NoSQL systems.

- Strong knowledge of clean architecture principles, SOLID design patterns, and scalable backend design.

- Experience working in Agile software development environments.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

- Strong problem-solving skills, debugging, and performance optimization skills, ownership mindset, and ability to collaborate across teams. 

- Experience working in Agile software development methodologies.

- Ability to manage responsibilities independently and deliver results within deadlines.

Desired skills and competencies

- Experience with distributed application frameworks such as Dapr.

- Exposure to event-driven architectures and messaging systems.

- Familiarity with API Management, gateway patterns, and platform integrations.

- Experience working with large-scale SaaS platforms and micro services architectures.

- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices.

·        Qualification: bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or any field.

·        Proven experience of 6+ years in project management, preferably in software development projects involving Python.

·        Strong proficiency in Python programming and familiarity with relevant frameworks.

·        Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

·        Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality and timeliness.

·        Expertise in Django/Python/AWS and MySQL.

·        Problem-solving aptitude and a proactive approach to challenges.

·        Experience working in an Agile development environment is highly desirable.

·        Strong organizational and time management skills.

·        Possess a strong understanding of Python programming concepts, frameworks, and best practices.

·        Assist team members with technical challenges, review code, and contribute to technical discussions.

·        Develop comprehensive project plans, including scope, timelines, milestones, resources, and deliverables.

Required Technologies:

o Excellent understanding of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, CSS3

o Able to communicate well with others on technologies bases

o Working knowledge with Rspec is good to have.

o Have previous experience building features in production applications.

o Good Knowledge of SQL

Good To Have

o Basics of GIT and GIT LAB

o PostgreSQL

Able to understand frontend JS frameworks

WHO WILL LOVE THIS JOB?

• Attracted to creativity, innovation, and eagerness to learn

• Alignment to a fast-paced organization and its short-term and long-term goals

• An engaging, open, genuine personality that naturally encourages interaction with individuals at all levels

• Strong value system and sense of ethics • Absolute dedication to premium quality

• Want to build strong core product team capable of developing solutions for complex, industry-first problems.

• Build balance of experience, knowledge, and new learnings

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES?

• Driving the success of the software engineering team at Datamotive.

• Collaborating with senior and peer engineers to prioritize and deliver features on the roadmap.

• Build strong development team with focus on building optimized & usable solutions.

• Research, Design & Develop distributed solution to handle workload mobility across multi & hybrid cloudsr

• Assist in Identifying, Researching & Designing newer features and cloud platform support in areas of disaster recovery, data protection, workload migration etc.

• Assist in building product roadmap.

• Conduct pilot tests to assess the functionality of newly developed programs.

• Front facing customers for product introduction, knowledge transfer, solutioning, bugs triaging etc.

• Assist customers by giving product demos, conducting POCs, trainings etc.

• Manage Datamotive infrastructure, bring innovative automation for optimizing infrastructure usage through monitoring and scripting. • Design test environments to simulate customer behaviours and use cases in VMware vSphere, AWS, GCP, Azure clouds. • Help write technical documentation, generate marketing content like blogs, webinars, seminars etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS?

• Experience in software development with relevant domain understanding of Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Ransomware Recovery.

• A strong understanding and demonstrable experience with at least one of the major public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure or VMware)

• A strong understanding and experience of designing and developing architecture of complex, distributed systems.

• Insights into development of client-server SaaS applications with good breadth across networking, storage, micro-services, and other web technologies.

• Experience of building and leading strong development teams with systems product development background

• Programming knowledge in either of GO Lang, C, C++, Python or Shell script.

• Should be a computer science graduate with strong fundamentals & problem-solving abilities.

• Good understanding of virtualization, storage and cloud platforms like VMware, AWS, GCP, Azure and/or Kubernetes will be preferable

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
• Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or

  • leadership

• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members
• Taking lead on projects, as