Backend Engineer

About the Role

Regal is seeking a Backend Engineer to help build and maintain the systems that power our consumer-facing digital products, ticketing, ordering, loyalty, payments, and mobile experiences used by millions of moviegoers across the country.

This is a backend-focused role. You will spend the majority of your time designing and building APIs, services, and data systems in .NET and C#. You won't be expected to own the front end, but you will collaborate closely with front-end engineers and should be comfortable contributing to a React or Next.js codebase when the work calls for it.

You'll join a team that is actively modernizing its engineering culture, moving toward full-stack collaboration, shared ownership, and a more deliberate engineering practice. This isn't a siloed specialist role. You'll be expected to communicate openly, work across disciplines, and care about what you ship. This opportunity is open to Remote US candidates. 

Key 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

Qualifications

Required

• 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

Preferred

• 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

What Success Looks Like

• You ship reliable, well-tested backend features that make the product better for millions of guests
• Your APIs are clean, documented, and easy for front-end engineers and partners to consume
• You're a trusted voice in technical discussions, your opinions are informed, your code is sound, and your teammates want you in the room
• You give and receive code review feedback that makes the team better
• You raise issues early, communicate clearly, and don't let blockers sit

About Regal

Regal Cinemas is part of Regal Cineworld, one of the world's largest cinema operators with over 9,000 screens across 751 locations in 10 countries, including Cineworld, Picturehouse, Cinema City, and Regal Cinemas across the U.S. Every day, millions of guests rely on the digital products this team builds to plan and enjoy their movie experience, from browsing showtimes to buying tickets and redeeming loyalty rewards.

Our digital and technology team is based out of Regal's Theatre Support Office in Knoxville, Tennessee, and operates remotely across the U.S. We're in an active phase of investment and modernization, building the engineering culture, technical foundation, and product capability that will define how guests experience Regal for the next decade.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Discretionary annual bonus
• 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

Equal Opportunity Employer

Regal Cinemas is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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