Senior Backend Engineer; Hybrid

Company Description

Colliers is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company. With operations in 68 countries, our 22,000 enterprising people work collaboratively to provide expert advice to maximize the potential of property and real assets to accelerate the success of our clients, our investors and our people.

We are at the forefront of the real estate industry, leading the way and backed by an exceptional record of success. We are building for our future –and yours.

We strive to build our business at a competitive pace by augmenting internal growth with smart strategic acquisitions that increase market share, expand service offerings and extend our geographic reach for the benefit of our clients and shareholders.

For more than 29 years, Colliers has created value for shareholders that has resulted in superior returns and industry growth. Our people also own significant equity in our business, which brings pride of ownership to everything we do. We are passionate, take personal responsibility and always do what's right for our clients, people and communities.

Reporting into Director of Software Engineering, the Senior Backend Engineer will work within the Global Technology Hub from our Madrid office.

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Senior Backend Engineer for our newly established Technology Hub in Madrid. This is a unique opportunity to become part of the founding team that helps shape the culture, practices, and technical direction. Working in a hybrid model (remote & onsite), you will enjoy significant freedom to innovate and influence the future of one of the world’s largest commercial real estate companies.

With the leadership of the Global Technology Hub coming from a background of technology startups, you will benefit from a fast-paced learning environment, high visibility of your contributions and opportunities to shape processes, culture and technology strategies. At the same time, you take advantage of the stability, resources, and reach of a successful global company
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Guided by our global digital strategy, the Madrid Hub collaborates closely with international teams to deliver world-class technology solutions that power the future of commercial real estate.

As Senior Backend Engineer
, you specialize in .Net, and will play a key role in designing, developing and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise software solutions. You will contribute to global products and platforms that serve both internal and external customers in Commercial Real Estate across multiple regions. Working closely with international Product, Engineering, Dev Ops, Data, QA and Architecture teams, you will ensure delivery excellence, software quality and great customer experience.

You are a hands-on problem-solver with strong software design principles, who thrives in a collaborative and agile environment. This role offers the opportunity to influence technical direction and mentor junior engineers while building solutions with real business impact

• Implement scalable and maintainable B2B software products using the Microsoft .NET stack (C#, ASP.NET Core)
• Contribute to architecture discussions/technology evaluation and participate in system and code reviews.
• Help define and adhere to coding standards, documentation and modern software lifecycle best practices, such as SOLID principles, unit testing, CI/CD, and secure coding
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and QA to translate business requirements into technical specifications and user stories.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement and feature grooming to ensure technical feasibility and shared understanding across disciplines

• Act as a technical mentor to mid-level and junior engineers within your team or project and beyond.
• Identify opportunities for technical improvements and advocate for high-quality engineering standards
• Participate in design and code review sessions to uphold engineering excellence across the team
• Take on technical ownership of production systems
• Continuous…