Senior Backend Developer

VACANCY FOR SENIOR BACKEND DEVELOPER

We are seeking a skilled Senior Level Backend Developer to join our dynamic technology team. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable backend systems using .NET and Microsoft Azure services.

You will play a key role in optimizing existing solutions, designing cloud-native microservices, and implementing modern engineering practices to continuously enhance our product offerings.

About the Company:

At Alfa Laval, every single day we contribute to a more sustainable future through engineering innovation. Our global teams design and implement refining, recycling, and purifying processes that help our customers improve their operations.

Our solutions are used in critical applications such as water purification, clean energy, food production, waste processing, and pharmaceutical development. We foster a culture that encourages initiative, collaboration, courage, and diversity, giving people the freedom and resources to turn ideas into reality.

Alfa Laval’s core competencies are in heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling, supported by world-class technologies, systems, equipment, and services that help our customers stay ahead.

Learn more at: www.alfalaval.com

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a strong individual contributor, owning backend components and services end‑to‑end
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable backend services supporting core product functionality
• Take responsibility for the technical quality, robustness, and maintainability of backend solutions
• Proactively modernize and improve existing systems, addressing performance, reliability, and technical debt
• Collaborate closely with the Tech Lead and other developers, contributing to design discussions, reviewing code, and supporting consistent implementation
• Support junior developers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance, while working with product, frontend, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver high‑quality features across the full development lifecycle

Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience:

• Technically strong engineer who can be relied upon to deliver high‑quality work independently, takes ownership of assigned components, and follows through on commitments with minimal supervision
• Experience working with complex, distributed backend systems, understanding how multiple services interact
• Hands‑on experience building backend components or microservices from scratch, not only maintaining existing code
• 5-10 years of relevant development experience

Skills:

Must have:

• Strong hands-on experience with .NET/.NET Core
• Experience with Microsoft Azure Services including Service Bus, Event Hub, Containers, Azure Functions, Azure app services and SignalR
• Design and implementation of scalable microservices architectures
• Strong understanding of object‑oriented programming (OOP) concepts
• Experience with development of web APIs
• Strong knowledge of SQL

• Knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL and/or InfluxDB
• Hands-on experience with Docker
• Should be technically sound, reliable and self-driven

Good to have:

• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployment and integration
• Experience of having worked in Linux-based environments

Who You Are:

You are an independent, quick‑learning professional with strong problem‑solving skills and high attention to detail and quality. You enjoy being part of a team and contributing to shared success.

You are:

• Structured and driven, with the ability to see the bigger picture
• Self‑motivated and proactive, able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
• Comfortable taking initiative and ownership
• Interested in continuous learning and knowledge sharing
• Motivated by developing both yourself and your colleagues

Interested? Please apply for the position

Note

We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.