Senior Backend Engineer – Live Events & Ticketing SaaS

Role overview A Senior Backend Engineer will build and operate the services and APIs behind a multi-tenant platform for real-time inventory, pricing, and order fulfillment in the secondary event-ticketing market. The role combines high-throughput backend development with production ownership, observability, incident response, and technical guidance for a core product team working with US engineering stakeholders.

Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and public REST APIs for a high-concurrency platform. - Add observability through structured logs, time-series metrics, data capture, dashboards, and actionable alerts. - Improve database schemas, query performance, system resilience, and architectural patterns; lead code reviews. - Work with product and engineering leaders to turn business needs into fault-tolerant technical designs. - Set engineering standards, identify system-wide gaps, and mentor colleagues at different experience levels. - Own services after release, including production support, incident response, and alert tuning.

Requirements - At least five years of backend engineering experience building scalable production systems. - Strong C# and .NET 8 or later skills, plus SQL Server and T-SQL expertise, including schema design and query optimization. - Experience with multi-tenant, event-driven systems and asynchronous patterns such as pub/sub and CQRS. - Demonstrated ownership of production operations, including telemetry, automated testing, regression analysis, and post-release support. - Experience deploying and operating cloud services; Azure is preferred, with AWS or GCP also relevant. - Advanced English communication skills and experience working directly with US stakeholders.

Nice to have Experience with Azure Service Bus, Application Insights, Log Analytics or KQL, Grafana, PagerDuty, and CI/CD pipelines is useful. Background in high-frequency data, real-time marketplaces, fintech, or pricing systems is relevant, as are AI tools for infrastructure or deployment automation. Participation in an on-call rotation may be part of the role.

Benefits and work setup The position is fully remote and offers paid time off and autonomy over work schedules, with an emphasis on results. The source also describes compensation in USD and opportunities to collaborate on projects with US companies.