Senior Backend Engineer

About XTEL

At XTEL, we excel in understanding large FMCG players. As a leading software provider of sales automation solutions for the Consumer Goods Industry worldwide, our mission is to partner with our customers to unlock growth through smart investment and optimize their promotional plans.

Position Overview

Our Senior Backend Engineer will be in charge of product design and implementation, implementing and architecting how we provide solutions to support field sales management and trade optimization processes and manage their complex planning and execution activity. You will be at the base of the transformation of the solution to SaaS, with a focus on identifying area to be refactored and to be transformed in services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and refactoring of advanced products capabilities, analyzing key information, and transform it into insightful technical recommendations;
• Support design reviews to ensure solutions fit our architecture, security, scalability and maintainability guidelines;
• Gather requirements, designing and implementing the product/capabilities, leading the development, deploying, and monitoring the service in production;
• Provide development estimates of the new features and enhancements together with other Scrum team members;
• Provide engineering leadership and contribute to our engineering community, standards & best practices;
• Develop and maintain software to ensure quality, responsiveness, and efficiency, security, modifiability, extensibility and performance;
• Work closely with other staff, such as other Scrum team, project managers, UX designers, other developers, systems analysts and sales and marketing professionals, on a complex SaaS solution mainly based on Microsoft technologies and hosted on Azure;
• Help implementing and architecting how we provide solutions to support field sales management and trade optimization processes and manage their complex planning and execution activity.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Object Oriented Programming (OOP);
• Experience in legacy code refactoring;
• Demonstrable experience in C# programming;
• Real life experience applying SOLID principles and Design Patterns;
• Experience writing Unit Tests & Integration Tests;
• Fluent English, since you will use it every day to communicate with colleagues across Europe;
• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations;
• Knowledge in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications;
• Demonstrable experience working in a microservice-oriented architecture;

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with databases query performance tuning/troubleshooting;
• Experience in Consumer Goods/Retail sector and in specific commercial processes (trade promotions, sales agreement, sales force automation, incentives management, retail execution) will be advantageous.

What We Offer

• A challenging role in a fast-growing AI-driven revenue management company.
• A diverse and international team with strong ownership and a can-do mentality.
• Opportunities to contribute to the organization's growth and development.
• A cross-functional role spanning geographies and departments.
• Flexible working with hybrid and remote options (HQ in Bologna).

Location Preferences:

Our headquarters is located in Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, and we offer hybrid work arrangements. While we prioritize candidates who are based in Bologna and the surrounding areas for hybrid work, we are open to considering other options on a case-by-case basis.

Equal Opportunity Statement

If you have strengths to share, we’d love to hear from you. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences, so don’t hesitate to apply even if you don’t meet all criteria.XTEL is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.