Varicent is looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to join our Incentives Development team. You will be part of a multidisciplinary group building and enhancing our Incentives product, a single-page web application supported by a C# REST API hosted in AWS. In this role, you will build new features, optimize performance, and ensure scalability for our data-intensive applications.

What You'll Do

Build new features for the REST API and enhance the AWS infrastructure using C# and AWS CloudFormation.
Work with product management, designers, and QA to implement new features and enhancements.
Participate in code reviews to ensure high quality and provide insights to team members.
Optimize application performance for scalability and low latency across large datasets.
Develop features using AWS services like Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and Redshift.
Automate deployments and CI/CD pipelines using Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
Identify and resolve bottlenecks to ensure high availability and uptime.

What We're Looking For

7+ years of backend development experience, focusing on data-intensive applications.
Proficiency in at least one backend language such as C#, Java, or C++.
Experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Redshift).
Understanding of ELT/ETL processes and challenges with large-scale data.
Solid grasp of Software Design fundamentals.
Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for clean, maintainable code.