Senior Backend Developer (Contract) - Resi
About The Position
As a Senior Backend Developer, you will help power AlayaCare’s Residential platform, which supports better care for residents in aged care facilities across Australia. You will join a distributed engineering team that works closely with product, clinical, and finance stakeholders to design and deliver reliable backend services and APIs that underpin critical workflows for our customers. You will work mainly with C#, .NET 8, and MSSQL in an environment that is evolving from a monolith to modern microservices, using technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, AWS, and Azure DevOps. You will also be part of an AI-first development culture that expects you to use AI coding assistants in your day-to-day work to accelerate delivery while maintaining high quality. If you are excited by building robust backend systems that make real-world care safer, more efficient, and more connected, this role is for you. This is a fully remote 12 month temporary full-time contract position.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development.
- Deep hands-on experience building production systems in C# and .NET, including modern .NET versions.
- Proven experience designing and implementing production-grade microservices and RESTful APIs.
- Strong SQL skills and experience optimizing database access and queries on MSSQL or similar relational databases.
- Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS-based services in a production environment.
- Comfort making sound technical decisions in ambiguous contexts and communicating trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in written and spoken English, with the ability to work effectively across distributed teams.
- Ability to work Pacific Time Zone hours.
- Working knowledge of AI, having used AI tools in practice, and being able to demonstrate how AI has helped improve the quality, efficiency, or impact of your work.
- Ability to adapt to new tools and ways of working and use AI responsibly in line with our privacy and security standards.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Redis, message-based background processing, and observability tooling like DataDog is an asset.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and RESTful APIs in C# and .NET that power key clinical and financial workflows.
- Optimize MSSQL database access and queries to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of our data layer.
- Strengthen the security and resilience of shared services, including role-based access control and service-to-service authentication.
- Lead and participate in code reviews to drive reuse, extensibility, and high engineering standards across the team.
- Implement and maintain automated unit and integration tests that ensure strong coverage and code quality.
- Monitor services in production, investigate issues, and ship fixes that improve stability and client experience.
- Contribute to the product-wide technical roadmap and help guide our transition from a monolith to microservices.
- Evaluate and recommend new tools, patterns, and technologies that help the team ship high-quality software more effectively.
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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