Backend Engineer (.NET); f​/m​/d

Join Apaleoand shape the future of hospitality tech

Apaleois the world’s most open, API-first property management platform fueling the next generation of hospitality operations. Its modular, AI-powered infrastructure lets hotelierscustomisetheir tech stack, automate routine work and deliver seamless,personalisedguest experiences, powered by best-in-class apps and autonomous AI agents that adapt to every stay.

Ifyou’redriven by the idea of making hospitality smarter, morehumanand powered bycutting-edge technology,we’dlove to hear from you.

You’ll join our Platform team as an individual contributor working closely with our Principal Engineer, who leads Platform’s technical direction. Platform owns infrastructure, developer experience and security foundations for the whole engineering org, so this is a high-ownership seat: you’ll take on large, ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives and drive them from first analysis through to completion, with real autonomy over how you get there.

Wedon’trun a groomed backlog or sprint planning. We assign a big topic to someone who ownsitend to end. If you thrive with structure handed to you, thisisn’tthe role; if you love spotting the problem worth solving and driving it yourself,you’llfit right in.

• Architecting and developing scalable,reliable and maintainable backend systems.
• Self-identifying and scoping problems and initiatives, not just executing assigned tickets: assessing impact,prioritisation and timing independently.
• Leading architectural decisions and design discussions with cross-team alignment.
• Driving large, ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives end to end, including coordination with multiple stakeholders.
• Mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence.
• Building andmaintaininginternal tools and infrastructure (AWS, Terraform) that empower teams to deliver faster and more reliably.
• Owning observability,logging and operational excellence to keep the platformhighly available.
• Participating in on-call rotations and stepping in as a reliable problem solver during incidents.
• Proactively spotting where AI and automation can drive technical improvement.

• Solving horizontal write-scaling for our database (we already scale reads horizontally).
• Migrating our infrastructure-as-code fully from Cloud Formation to Terraform, including the ability to recreate an Apaleoenvironment from scratch.
• Extracting and reworking common services (like shared schedulers) to get us ready for our next scale level.

• 8+ years of backend development experience, including several years in a staff-level or technical leadership role.
• Strong engineering fundamentals that transfer across languages and cloud platforms: we care more about how you think than which stackyou’veused.
• A track recordof owning large technical initiatives from ambiguity through to completion, ideally on a platform or infrastructure team rather than a pure product team.
• Experience designing and scaling distributed systems in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred; strong Azure fundamentals with genuine enthusiasm for the switch work just as well).
• Comfortable working withcontainerisedservices and infrastructure-as-code (Docker,Terraform; Cloud Formation exposure is relevant given our current stack).
• Confidence writing your own unit and integration tests: wedon’thave a dedicated QA function.

• Direct experience with C# (.NET), PostgreSQL,AWSand ECS/Kubernetes: a great fit, though not a hard requirement if your fundamentals are strong.
• Experience setting up infrastructure-as-code from scratch and working with it day to day, ideally with Terraform, including migrating orconsolidatingfrom other
  
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