Senior .NET Backend Engineer

We are seeking a skilled .NET/C# Engineer to join our team in developing the VPP Core Domain, a critical system responsible for the management and monitoring of essential energy assets. In this role, you will design and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance back-end solutions to support mission-critical operations within Dutch infrastructure (controlling mission-critical Dutch assets).

You will contribute to sophisticated event-driven and distributed systems, ensuring robust functionality in a high-stakes environment. As part of a collaborative, cross-functional production team, you will work with cutting-edge technologies to deliver innovative solutions that meet the highest standards of quality and reliability. At least 7 years’ experience in complex, distributed, scalable backend application design and development is required.

• Coding Expertise: Expertise in building robust, high-performance applications.
• Cloud-Native Development: Proficiency with Azure for scalable, resilient deployment and competent with cloud-native design paterns.
• Container Orchestration: Experience with modern DevOps practices, infrastrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and experience with Kubernetes for managing containerized workloads.
• Database Technologies: Experience building with SQL and No-SQL databases (MongoDB/Cosmos DB).
• Messaging Systems: Experience developing solutions with Kafka, Event Hubs, or RabbitMQ for asynchronous communication.
• Frontend (Optional): Exposure to Vue.js is a plus but not required.
• Architecture: Proven experience implementing architecture patterns and driving architectural decision making within teams taking cost, performance, scale and features into account

• Develop and maintain scalable back-end systems using .NET and C# using well-known design patterns and robust, resilient, secure and well-tested code
• Design and implement event-driven architectures leveraging messaging systems
• Take a lead role in team code reviews and be an active contributor to team software and solution architecture
• Mentor peers and improve development processes when needed
• Be a champion for improving observability by developing service metrics to indicate health and performance of services
• Ensure system reliability and performance in a distributed, cloud-native and hybrid cloud/ on-premises environments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and your product manager to deliver mission-critical solutions.

You will join a forward-thinking engineering team responsible for developing the VPP Core Domain — a critical part of Eneco’s digital energy infrastructure. This team builds high-stakes, production-grade solutions that power essential systems relied upon across the Netherlands.

Collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence are at the core of how the team operates. You’ll work alongside skilled engineers and product managers using event-driven systems, cloud-native platforms, distributed architectures, and modern DevOps practices to deliver impactful, high-reliability solutions.