Principal Backend Engineer (Finance, Copenhagen)

Job summary

This role involves significant architectural influence and hands-on engineering in the Client Pricing IT team, focusing on systems that drive fees, commissions, and pricing across a financial platform. The position requires collaboration with business stakeholders and distributed engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience at Senior, Staff, or Principal level.
• Strong expertise in C#, .NET, distributed systems, and API design.
• Solid SQL Server experience, including performance tuning and data modeling.
• Experience in modernizing legacy platforms and evolving event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of non-functional requirements such as latency, resilience, scalability, and observability.
• Production experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Ability to work closely with business stakeholders in complex financial domains.
• Comfortable in an international environment across distributed teams.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve backend systems for transactional and non-transactional pricing models.
• Build scalable services using C# and .NET / .NET Core.
• Design and maintain RESTful and gRPC APIs with business-aligned contracts.
• Develop synchronous and asynchronous integrations for pricing workflows.
• Work across event-driven and service-oriented architectures.
• Maintain and optimize SQL Server databases, including performance-critical components.
• Drive the transition of legacy systems to modern, scalable architectures.
• Ensure high standards for reliability, correctness, observability, and performance in revenue-critical systems.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate complex pricing logic into technical solutions.
• Contribute to architectural direction and engineering standards.

Skills

• Proficiency in C#, .NET, SQL Server, and API design.
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Education

• Relevant degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

Tools

• C#, .NET / .NET Core, SQL Server, Microsoft Azure.