Software Engineer, Backend (.NET) - 12 months contract

SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald's, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, SmartRecruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting-edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.

At SmartRecruiters, we are a values-driven, globally focused tech company with strong financial backing and a bold vision for the future of work. We commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together. Because together, we will win.

Recognized by Fosway Industry Analysts as a strategic leader in recruitment technology for three consecutive years, and awarded by Comparably as a top company for Women, Perks and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, and Culture - we take pride in creating a place where everyone can thrive. Our remote-friendly culture, competitive salaries, and strong internal mobility ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities in an environment built on respect and empowerment.

As a Software Engineer at Smart Recruiters Attrax, your primary responsibility will be the technical ownership and delivery of our backend client project work. This will include taking an active role in the entire software development life cycle, from design and planning through to implementation.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside our senior engineers to create new functionality and assist with the continued development of our product and platform, in line with our company’s technical and feature roadmaps.

You will work as part of a dynamic, engaged, and cross-functional development team, helping ensure we continue to deliver exceptional technical solutions and provide brilliant service for our stakeholders.

What you'll deliver : 

• Provide backend development support to our delivery team members, troubleshooting and resolving technical issues on client site systems and escalating issues appropriately where required
• Complete and assist with a range of backend development projects alongside the rest of the development team
• Work as part of our Scrum-based product development team alongside our senior engineers, contributing to the delivery of our feature roadmap and our continuous drive to improve and modernize our platform

Essential

• .NET 9
• Entity Framework
• C# language and programming concepts
• SQL
• Proven record of writing clean maintainable code
• At least two years of commercial software experience is required
• Strong command of English language, both written and verbal

Desirable

• Azure services (Serverless, Service Bus)
• Experience working with message queue systems and Event-Driven Architecture
• CI/CD pipelines and automation tasks
• Elasticsearch
• Redis
• Knowledge of automated test frameworks
• ETL pipelines / processes
• REST-based API experience
• Software design patterns
• Experience using New Relic (or similar APM software such as Datadog, App Insights, etc)
• Experience working with version control systems using Git such as GitHub or Bitbucket
• Previous experience working in a self-organizing agile development team

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

As a Software Engineer at Smart Recruiters Attrax, your primary responsibility will be the technical ownership and delivery of our backend client project work. This will include taking an active role in the entire software development life cycle, from design and planning through to implementation.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside our senior engineers to create new functionality and assist with the continued development of our product and platform, in line with our company’s technical and feature roadmaps.

You will work as part of a dynamic, engaged, and cross-functional development team, helping ensure we continue to deliver exceptional technical solutions and provide brilliant service for our stakeholders.

What you'll deliver : 

• Provide backend development support to our delivery team members, troubleshooting and resolving technical issues on client site systems and escalating issues appropriately where required
• Complete and assist with a range of backend development projects alongside the rest of the development team
• Work as part of our Scrum-based product development team alongside our senior engineers, contributing to the delivery of our feature roadmap and our continuous drive to improve and modernize our platform

Essential

• .NET 9
• Entity Framework
• C# language and programming concepts
• SQL
• Proven record of writing clean maintainable code
• At least two years of commercial software experience is required
• Strong command of English language, both written and verbal

Desirable

• Azure services (Serverless, Service Bus)
• Experience working with message queue systems and Event-Driven Architecture
• CI/CD pipelines and automation tasks
• Elasticsearch
• Redis
• Knowledge of automated test frameworks
• ETL pipelines / processes
• REST-based API experience
• Software design patterns
• Experience using New Relic (or similar APM software such as Datadog, App Insights, etc)
• Experience working with version control systems using Git such as GitHub or Bitbucket
• Previous experience working in a self-organizing agile development team