Senior Backend Engineer -.Net

About us At Trainline, our purpose is to empower greener travel choices, connecting people and places. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. Great journeys start with Trainline We’re Europe’s leading independent rail platform, helping millions of travellers find and book the best-value rail and coach journeys across our app, website and partner channels.

Our job is to make the green travel choice the best choice. By building a better train travel experience, we help more people choose rail - creating a positive impact for customers, our business and the planet.

We’re a team of more than 1,000 Train liners from over 50 nationalities, working across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. Now is a brilliant time to join us and help shape the future of travel.

Introducing the Backend teams at Trainline The Backend teams at Trainline build the core of Trainline’s world class product. We create the journey search functionality that millions of our customers use on a daily basis, the eCommerce platform that provides a secure and seamless experience and we connect Trainline to over 270 travel operating companies, across 45 countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

Each team has a targeted domain focus, ranging between journey search, fares calculation, bookings, fulfilment, payments, refunds, carriers’ integrations, real-time timetable information, journey disruptions and much more.

As a senior level .NET Engineer at Trainline you will...Deliver new functionality or features, using the most appropriate tools & techniques

Ensure quality is at the heart of everything you and your team do Continuously improve the code base

Keep our customer as the number one priority

Actively identify blockers, boulders, time sinks and waste, and actively attempt to remove them

Make significant contribution to technical decisions

Act as a coach and mentor to others in the team

Take full ownership of the development lifecycle from code to production, including deployment and monitoring

Our Tech Stack Languages & Frameworks: C# (.NET 6–10)
Databases:
DynamoDB, PostgreSQL Cloud &

Infrastructure: AWS Cloud, Docker, TerraformCI/CD & Dev Ops:
Git Hub Actions Monitoring & Logging:
New Relic, ELK Stack We'd love to hear from you if you have...Experience mentoring less experienced engineers and comfortable pair-programming with colleagues

Hands on experience with C# .NET and the latest features

Experience collaborating with front-end engineers and other disciplines to deliver end-to-end features and cross-functional epics

Experience working with identity and authentication systems (e.g. Identity Server, OpenID Connect, OAuth2)
Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Git Hub Actions, Team City, Spacelift or similar tools)

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure or GCP also valuable)
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform Strong experience with observability practices (logging, monitoring, alerting)
Familiarity with tools such as New Relic and ELK stack (or equivalents)
Curiosity about AI and emerging tools

Experience supporting production systems and improving reliability

Strong experience building and operating microservices architectures

Experience with event-driven systems and asynchronous messaging patterns

Solid understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges

Have excellent communication skills

More information:

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Train liners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work…