Backend Engineer

Summary

Regal is seeking a Backend Engineer to help build and maintain the systems that power our consumer-facing digital products. This role focuses on designing and building APIs, services, and data systems in .NET and C#, while collaborating closely with front-end engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs using C# and .NET
• Own backend features end to end, from technical design through deployment and production support
• Collaborate with front-end engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver complete, well-integrated features
• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code with a focus on reliability and maintainability
• Participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback thoughtfully
• Contribute to architectural discussions and help define technical direction on your team
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalability concerns, and technical debt
• Support and improve observability, logging, monitoring, and alerting across services you own

Skills

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful backend ownership
• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET, this is your primary stack
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs consumed by web and mobile clients
• Solid understanding of relational databases, SQL Server experience strongly preferred
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, CI/CD practices, and modern software deployment
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of features from design through delivery
• Strong communication skills, you can explain technical decisions clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike
• Experience with CosmosDB or other NoSQL document databases
• Familiarity with React or Next.js, enough to collaborate effectively with front-end engineers and contribute when needed
• Experience with Azure or similar cloud environments
• Experience with React Native or cross-platform mobile development
• Exposure to event-driven architecture, message queuing, or async processing patterns
• Experience with observability tooling, Datadog, Serilog, Application Insights, or similar
• Experience building consumer-facing products at meaningful scale
• Familiarity with Redis or distributed caching strategies

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful backend ownership
• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET, this is your primary stack
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs consumed by web and mobile clients
• Solid understanding of relational databases, SQL Server experience strongly preferred
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, CI/CD practices, and modern software deployment
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of features from design through delivery
• Strong communication skills, you can explain technical decisions clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike

Nice to Haves

• Experience with CosmosDB or other NoSQL document databases
• Familiarity with React or Next.js, enough to collaborate effectively with front-end engineers and contribute when needed
• Experience with Azure or similar cloud environments
• Experience with React Native or cross-platform mobile development
• Exposure to event-driven architecture, message queuing, or async processing patterns
• Experience with observability tooling, Datadog, Serilog, Application Insights, or similar
• Experience building consumer-facing products at meaningful scale
• Familiarity with Redis or distributed caching strategies

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and company holidays
• Company-paid life and disability insurance
• Free movie passes and discounted concessions
• Summer half-day Fridays