At Saxo, client pricing is a key driver of revenue and client experience. The Client Pricing IT team builds and operates systems powering fees, commissions, taxes, interest, rewards, and subscription pricing across the platform.
We are looking for a Principal Backend Engineer with strong senior-level technical expertise to play a key role in evolving these business-critical systems. This is a hands-on engineering position with significant architectural influence, working closely with business stakeholders and distributed engineering teams.
You will join our Copenhagen HQ as part of a smaller, highly international team, closely collaborating with a larger engineering team in India as part of a global setup.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve backend systems supporting transactional and non-transactional pricing models.
- Build scalable services using C# and .NET / .NET Core.
- Design and maintain RESTful and gRPC APIs with clear, business-aligned contracts.
- Develop synchronous and asynchronous integrations supporting pricing workflows.
- Work across event-driven and service-oriented architectures.
- Maintain and optimize SQL Server databases, including performance-critical and legacy DB-centric components.
- Maintain and drive the transition of legacy systems toward modern, scalable, loosely coupled architectures.
- Ensure high standards for reliability, correctness, observability, and performance in revenue-critical systems.
- Partner closely with business stakeholders to translate complex pricing and commercial logic into robust technical solutions.
- Contribute to architectural direction, engineering standards, and long-term platform evolution.
- Act as a key technical counterpart in Copenhagen, collaborating closely with distributed teams in India.
Your Profile
- Extensive backend engineering experience, operating 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 modernizing legacy platforms and evolving event-driven architectures.
- Strong understanding of non-functional requirements including latency, resilience, scalability, and observability.
- Production experience with Microsoft Azure.
- Ability to work closely with business stakeholders in complex financial or commercial domains.
- Comfortable operating in an international environment across distributed teams.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering workflows is an advantage.
Why This Role
- Direct impact on revenue-critical systems at the core of Saxo’s platform.
- High ownership and architectural influence within a global engineering setup.
- Opportunity to lead the transition from legacy systems to modern platform architectures.
- Combination of hands-on engineering, architectural work, and close business collaboration.
Next Step
Apply with your CV or reach out for a confidential discussion.
We get curious people invested in the world
When you work at Saxo, you become a Saxonian and part of a purpose-driven organisation, where good ideas are always taken seriously, and where you can make a true impact. We are invested in your development, and you can expect a robust career from day one when you join Saxo – no matter which role you take on.
You will join 2,500 other ambitious colleagues across 15 countries and become part of an international organisation. Working in Saxo, you will get to meet colleagues from many different cultures and backgrounds, and you should know that we value diversity and inclusion and see it as a genuine source of strength to drive growth, foster innovation and position us for long-term success.
We encourage an open feedback culture and supportive team environments enabling employees to grow and fulfil their career aspirations.
When you bring passion, curiosity, drive and team spirit, your learning journey will be dynamic and your career opportunities in Saxo will be immense.
At Saxo we don’t just offer a job – we offer an opportunity to invest in your future!
How to apply :
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Skills Required
- Extensive backend engineering experience, operating 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 modernizing legacy platforms and evolving event-driven architectures
- Strong understanding of non-functional requirements including latency, resilience, scalability, and observability
- Production experience with Microsoft Azure
- Ability to work closely with business stakeholders in complex financial or commercial domains
- Comfortable operating in an international environment across distributed teams
What We Do
At Saxo we believe that when you invest, you unlock a new curiosity for the world around you. Discovering an intuitive desire within to actively learn, explore, and ask questions, you will engage with new companies, new communities, maybe even new countries. You could call this an appetite or passion for new knowledge and skills. We call it curiosity. Ultimately everything we do as a company is focused on getting curious people invested in the world by giving our clients more ways to make more of their money. We began in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1992 with a clear vision: to make the global financial markets accessible for more people. In 1998, we launched one of the first online trading platforms in Europe, providing professional-grade tools and easy access to global financial markets for anyone who wanted to invest. Today we are a well-capitalised Danish (EU) bank with top capital ratios and positive rating from S&P, trusted by over 1.2 million clients. As an international award-winning investment firm for investors and traders who are serious about investing, our clients enjoy regulated and reliable access to over 71,000 financial instruments on our industry-leading platforms. Keeping our headquarters in our beloved Denmark, we have expanded our reach to having more than 70 nationalities employed in offices in 14 countries. We are proud of our Scandinavian heritage and we are committed to the values of trust, fairness, and security. We believe this gives our clients the confidence to be adventurous and curious. Curiosity can lead you to places you never could have imagined. When you invest, you stimulate the mind, you see new perspectives, and you broaden your horizons. Personal transformation is inevitable as you develop a sincere interest and curiosity for not only the world, but also for others. At Saxo our greatest hope is for everyone to become engaged, to feel empowered, and to Be Invested
