Backend engineer (.NET)

Hello!At Kitab Sawti we build an audiobook service for 400 million Arabic speaking people around the world. We are now looking to expand our engineering team in Stockholm.This role is an amazing opportunity if you like to do it all: design the architecture, write the code and also build the infrastructure for features that our end-users will benefit from.ResponsibilitiesAs a Backend Engineer, you will be involved in the entire software development cycle, from feature design to delivery and maintenance. Together with the Product Manager and the rest of the team you will discuss what features we should build and when, and then it's up to you and the engineering team to decide how to build it.We expect you to be involved in the design decisions when building features.It's also your responsibility to test and deploy what you build and to make sure that the necessary tools and processes for this are in place. In other words; you need to be ready to "do it all".Our current backend tech stack is focused around the .NET eco-system (and hosted on Azure), however moving to a microservices architecture enables us to mix tech stacks. It's not about the technologies, it's about the people and the skills we have in the team.Technical skills required, point by pointYou have experience and good understanding of microservice architectures. You understand the trade-offs and requirements to use it successfully.You have experience of the architectural patterns common in these kind of architectures, for example event-driven architectures.You have solid experience from cloud providers (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud) and their services.You have experience of using containers and some container orchestration frameworks (Docker Compose, Kubernetes).You know DDD and use it when it makes sense.You write code and build infrastructure that's easy to understand for others, is maintainable and runs efficiently. You make sure it's testable and you also write tests when it makes sense.Other things we expect you to knowC# and the .NET (Core) eco-system.git and some branching models.CI/CD pipelines and tools.Storage concepts and tools for hot and cold storage, such as relational/document databases, caches, queues, file shares, etc.As a team member, we think...You have an open mind for challenges to learn new stuff.You can deliver results reliably in a team or by yourself. You manage your own daily work, and you understand what and when to communicate to your team.You communicate perfectly in English with your team and others, both in person and remotely.You like to share your knowledge with others.