Staff Backend Engineer (.NET)

About the role

Apaleo is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join the Platform team and drive high-impact, cross-cutting technical initiatives. You will work as an individual contributor with significant autonomy, owning infrastructure, developer experience, and security foundations without the constraints of a traditional groomed backlog. This role is ideal for a self-starter who thrives on solving complex, ambiguous problems and leading architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Architecting and developing scalable, reliable and maintainable backend systems.
• Self-identifying and scoping problems and initiatives, including assessing impact and prioritisation.
• Leading architectural decisions and design discussions with cross-team alignment.
• Driving large, ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives end to end.
• Mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence.
• Building and maintaining internal tools and infrastructure that empower teams.
• Owning observability, logging and operational excellence.
• Participating in on-call rotations and incident resolution.

Required skills

• Backend development
• Distributed systems
• Cloud-native environments
• AWS
• Docker
• Terraform
• Infrastructure-as-code
• Unit testing
• Integration testing

Nice to have

• C#
• .NET
• PostgreSQL
• ECS
• Kubernetes
• CloudFormation
• Kafka
• Event-driven systems
• AI-assisted development tools

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend development experience
• Experience in a staff-level or technical leadership role

Benefits

• Learning budget
• Flexible work options
• Deutschland Ticket
• 30 days of paid holiday
• EGYM Wellpass membership

About the Company

Apaleo is the world’s most open, API-first property management platform powering the next generation of hospitality operations. Its modular, AI-powered infrastructure lets hoteliers customise their tech stack, automate routine work and deliver seamless, personalised guest experiences.