Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

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As Senior Backend Engineer, you join our dynamic engineering team. Ideally, you will have experience in backend development, particularly with C# and modern microservices architectures. You should be comfortable working with distributed systems, message queuing (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and designing scalable, high-performance APIs. Experience with Node.js and MongoDB is a plus but not mandatory. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to build, scale, and optimize backend systems.

Why join Tipalti?

Tipalti is one of the world’s fastest-growing fintech companies. We free finance professionals to lead by modernizing the entire payables operation. We are a well-funded, late-stage start-up backed by high-profile investors. Our 2021 Series F funding round raised $270 million, valuing us at over $8.3 billion. With total funding of just over $550 million, and with more than 3000 global customers, Tipalti is one of the most valuable private fintech companies in the world.

At Tipalti, we pride ourselves on our collaborative culture, the quality of our product and the capabilities of our people. Tipaltians are passionate about the work they do, and keen to get the job done. Tipalti offers competitive benefits, a flexible workplace, career coaching, and an environment where diverse individuals can thrive and make an impact. Our culture ensures everyone checks their egos at the door and stands ready to reach for success together. 

Founded in Israel in 2010, Tipalti is a global business headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area (Foster City) with offices in Tel Aviv, Plano, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Amsterdam and Tbilisi.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend services using C# (with .NET Core) for highly available, scalable, and reliable applications.
• Microservices Architecture: Build and maintain microservices-based architecture, ensuring modularity, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Message Queuing & Event-Driven Systems: Implement and manage RabbitMQ or other message brokers for asynchronous communication and service decoupling.
• Distributed Systems: Work with distributed architectures to ensure the system is resilient, scalable, and fault-tolerant.
• Collaboration: Work closely with frontend developers, product managers, and DevOps teams to ensure smooth product delivery and system scalability.
• Code Quality: Ensure clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers to raise the quality of development within the team.
• Optimization & Performance: Identify bottlenecks and optimize application performance, ensuring minimal latency and high throughput in backend services.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes to deploy and manage applications.
• Monitoring & Logging: Implement and monitor logging and performance metrics, using tools like ELK stack, Prometheus, or similar to proactively detect and resolve issues.

About you 

• Strong professional experience in backend development, primarily using C# and .NET Core.
• Strong experience with RabbitMQ or similar message brokers in distributed systems.
• Expertise in designing and building REST APIs with a focus on performance, security, and scalability.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and related patterns (service discovery, API gateway, etc.).
• Strong experience with distributed systems, with an emphasis on scalability and fault tolerance.
• Strong experience with Git, continuous integration, and version control best practices.
• Ability to write unit, integration, and system tests (experience with testing frameworks such as xUnit or NUnit).
• Experience in agile environments and familiarity with agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban.
• Fluent English: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Comfortable working in an international, distributed team environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude.

Advantages:

• Experience with Node.js for backend development.
• Familiarity with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.
• Experience with containerization using Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for deploying and managing services.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Knowledge of modern application security best practices.

Tipalti is posting this job opening for and on behalf of SDS (Cyprus) Limited and/or SDS Tbilisi Limited, LLC (both are hereinafter referred to as “SDS”). Any potential employment and/or consulting arrangements entered into, as it relates to this job opening, will be between you and SDS. Tipalti shall not be held responsible for the information and contents contained in this job posting, or for any issues arising out of or related to this job posting.