IsoMetrix is a leading provider of integrated risk management software solutions. Our product suite helps organizations effectively manage governance, risk, and compliance across their operations.
Role Overview
As a Senior Backend Engineer at IsoMetrix, you will play a leading role in the design and development of our next-generation, cloud-native SaaS platform. Working within the Product and Engineering team, you will build and maintain the backend services, APIs and data architecture that power our multi-tenant, multi-lingual Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions used by customers around the world.
This is a hands-on engineering role on a modern .NET stack, with the opportunity to shape architecture, uphold engineering standards and mentor other members of the team. You will work on greenfield development using technologies such as .NET 10, Entity Framework Core, Azure and applying best practices to create secure and maintainable software.
Key Responsibilities
Software Design & Development
- Design, build and maintain backend services, APIs and libraries for IsoMetrix's cloud native SaaS platform.
- Write clean, well-structured and testable code.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and help evolve a scalable, secure, multi-tenant platform.
- Develop reusable components and libraries to accelerate future development.
APIs & Integration
- Design and develop RESTful APIs and services consumed by web and mobile clients.
- Build event-driven and asynchronous components using message queues (e.g. Azure Service Bus).
- Ensure performance, scalability and cross-platform compatibility across services.
Quality, Security & Reliability
- Ensure software quality through unit, integration and automated testing.
- Participate in code reviews and uphold engineering best practices and coding standards.
- Build secure solutions with data protection and multi-tenancy in mind.
- Support continuous improvement, refactoring and performance optimisation of existing services.
Collaboration & Delivery
- Work within an Agile team alongside engineers, QA, product managers and designers.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate functional and technical requirements into working software.
- Mentor and support other engineers, sharing knowledge and helping raise the bar across the team.
Experience
Required Experience
- Significant commercial experience as a backend software engineer, including time in a senior or lead capacity.
- Proven track record designing, building and shipping production software on the .NET stack.
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and web services.
- Experience working with relational databases and writing efficient SQL.
- Experience building and deploying cloud-based applications, ideally on Microsoft Azure.
- Experience working with AI both as a product offering and as a part of their workflow
Technical Skills
- C# and ASP.NET Core (.NET 10 / .NET Core).
- Entity Framework Core.
- RESTful API design and development.
- SQL and relational database design (e.g. Azure SQL / SQL Server).
- Architectural patterns and principles such as Vertical Slice Architecture.
- Cloud services and tooling, ideally the Microsoft Azure platform (Azure Web Apps, Azure SQL).
- Source control with Git and GitHub.
- Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Soft Skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Able to work well with ambiguity
- Good time-management skills and the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks.
- A collaborative team player who is willing to mentor and share knowledge.
- A positive, proactive attitude and the ability to stay calm under pressure.
- A continuous-learning mindset with a genuine interest in new technologies.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with message queues (e.g. Azure Service Bus).
- Experience building multi-tenant, multi-lingual SaaS applications.
- Familiarity with front-end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript and Vue.js.
- Exposure to the EHS, ESG or Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) domain.
- .NET Aspire (cloud-native orchestration)
- Observability (OpenTelemetry)
- Identity & access (OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect)
- Resilience patterns (retries, timeouts, circuit breakers)
- Distributed caching (Redis)
Skills Required
- Significant commercial experience as a backend software engineer, including senior or lead-level experience
- Proven experience designing, building, and shipping production software on the .NET stack
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and web services
- Experience working with relational databases and writing efficient SQL
- Experience building and deploying cloud-based applications, ideally on Microsoft Azure
- Experience working with AI as a product offering and as part of the engineering workflow
- Proficiency with C# and ASP.NET Core, including .NET 10 or .NET Core
- Experience with Entity Framework Core
- Knowledge of RESTful API design and development
- Knowledge of SQL and relational database design, such as Azure SQL or SQL Server
- Understanding of architectural patterns such as Vertical Slice Architecture
- Experience with source control using Git and GitHub
- Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work with ambiguity, prioritize tasks, and manage time effectively
- Collaborative mindset with willingness to mentor and share knowledge
- Experience with message queues such as Azure Service Bus
- Experience building multi-tenant, multi-lingual SaaS applications
- Familiarity with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js
- Exposure to the EHS, ESG, or GRC domain
- Experience with .NET Aspire, OpenTelemetry, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, resilience patterns, or Redis
What We Do
At IsoMetrix we develop world leading integrated risk and compliance management software solutions for EHS, GRC and sustainability experts who know what they want. A growth equity fund managed by The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm with $223 billion of assets under management, has acquired a majority stake in IsoMetrix to help accelerate its research & development and international expansion plans. Our software allows businesses to run sustainably. This provides powerful and wide-reaching benefits to our planet, the people and communities we work and live with. It also leads to more profitable and resilient businesses. In helping our customers to do good, we also help them do well. With offices in the USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa, IsoMetrix is well positioned to provide international companies with support across the globe.
