Senior Backend .NET Developer

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Help shape the way people connect with real estate agents

At Funda, we're on a mission to help millions of people find their next home. Team Connect plays a vital role in this journey: we ensure users can reach out to real estate agents at exactly the right moment, through the right channel, and backed by the right data. We’re looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer with deep .NET expertise to join us in building the systems that make this connection seamless, intelligent, and scalable.

Responsibilities

• Architectural design & collaboration: Co-defining scalable, clean architectures alongside our Staff Engineer, Lead Engineers, and other senior engineers.
• Sharing knowledge: Upholding best practices and guiding fellow back-end engineers through modern .NET tooling.
• Product-tech alignment: Aligning product and technical goals with the Product Manager and UX Designers to ensure sustainable delivery.
• Strategic engineering decisions: Collaborating with the Lead Software Engineer to make strategic decisions and ensure engineering alignment.
• Cross-team orchestration: Facilitating cross-team collaboration, especially with platform, data integration, and other feature teams.
• Standards & quality: Upholding and evolving our standards in code quality, documentation, and agile processes.
• Knowledge sharing & culture: Fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, transparency, and high performance across the team.

Team

Team Connect is a multidisciplinary product team responsible for features that power interactions between home seekers and real estate agents. Our scope includes:

• The contact form component used across the site to capture leads.
• Integration with agent CRM systems to deliver leads effectively.
• Support for newsletters and favourites (saved properties).
• AI-powered suggestions based on user activity.
• APIs for our mobile app and web platform supporting contacts and favourites.

The team works in an agile environment with back-end and front-end engineers, UX/UI designers, product managers, data analysts, QA specialists, and engineering leads.

Requirements

• Deep experience in building and scaling back-end systems using modern .NET technologies.
• Comfortable initiating complex initiatives with strong opinions on architecture, scalability, and maintainability.
• Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus.
• Located in the Netherlands.

Technical skills required:

• .NET development in modern, cloud-based environments using Azure.
• Containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Distributed systems using event-driven architecture with Azure Service Bus.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Deployment orchestration with Helm charts.
• Designing robust, maintainable APIs and asynchronous workflows.
• Mentoring and uplifting technical capabilities of peers.
• Aligning engineering with product and business needs.

Benefits

• Annual bonus up to 1.5 times monthly salary.
• Hybrid working.
• 25 paid days off per year with option to buy more.
• Flexible working hours (32/36/40 hours per week).
• 60% pension coverage.
• Learning budget up to €2000/year plus access to digital courses.
• Monthly reimbursement up to €85 for phone/internet costs.
• Work-from-home allowance of €2.40 per day.
• Full coverage of travel costs for office days if living over 5 km away.
• Unlimited mental health support including phone consultations.
• Opportunity for a 3-month unpaid sabbatical every 3 years.
• Contributions to gym memberships and regular office massages.
• Freshly prepared office lunches at a small cost.
• Regular social events and birthday gifts.

Hiring Process

• Apply with CV and motivation letter.
• Initial video call with recruiter.
• Up to two interview rounds.
• Assignment before the second interview.
• No unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies.