Senior C#.Net Backend Engineer, Degreed
$150-190k
Upskilling platform for businesses
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Upskilling platform for businesses
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-190k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Based on the belief that it is knowledge, skills and experience, rather than a piece of paper, which defines people's futures, Degreed's mission is to help users to achieve their own personal educational missions.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in backend engineering
- Strong proficiency in C# for building scalable backend services and APIs
- Experience with event-driven architecture using tools like Azure Service Bus, Kafka, or Event Grid
- Skilled in system modularization, reusable library development, and vendor integrations
- Proficient in implementing logging, monitoring, and alerting (e.g., ELK, Datadog)
- Familiarity with frontend tools like TypeScript, Tailwind, and Angular is a plus
- Understanding of authentication and compliance frameworks such as OAuth, API Keys, JWT, SOC 2, and GDPR
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills
- Comfortable working in agile environments with shifting priorities
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer II on our Platform Services team, you’ll help modernize and evolve the foundation of Degreed’s global platform
- This is more than just backend coding — it's an opportunity to influence platform architecture, enable product teams to ship faster, and build the next generation of scalable services
- You’ll collaborate across squads, solve complex technical challenges, and drive the innovation that powers real impact for our users and business
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment
- Build proof-of-concepts and lead architectural design discussions across teams
- Collaborate with Product Managers and engineers to plan and deliver sprint outcomes
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues while improving system performance and scalability
- Drive technical strategy for features and integrations involving external vendors
- Contribute to architectural decisions, estimations, and overall system design
- Mentor junior engineers and advocate for backend engineering best practices
Our take
Degreed is a high calibre name in the employee upskilling space and is used by over a third of Fortune 500 companies. Some of their best known clients include Pepsico, Shopify, American Airlines, Boeing, HP and Visa.
Alongside providing a learning platform with courses, books, videos, articles and podcasts for skills development, the company also uses the data it gathers to connect learners with suitable projects and job opportunities, even within their own company. This is where Degreed’s best value lies, as employees are more likely to trust and remain loyal to companies where they can see a path for how skills development allows for career growth.
With just enough investor backing and funding to expand beyond their offices in the USA, the Netherlands, the UK and Australia, Degreed is well positioned to grow even more in the future, especially as organisations in these countries seek to use employee benefits to differentiate themselves.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Feb 2023
$50.9m
LATE VC
Apr 2021
$153m
SERIES D
Total funding: $388.3m
Company benefits
- Work where (and when) you work best: Degreed has always been a remote-work company with small offices where the biggest concentration of our people live. Team lunches, travel budgets for on-site visits, virtual happy hours, weekly all-hands meetings, and monthly release parties keep our teams connected and working as one.
- Health, wellness, and beyond: Degreed is expanding both organically and through acquisition. As we build a global company, benefits outside the US are commensurate with the presence in each region. In the US market, we've beefed up the common benefits (health, dental, vision) with some additions, like dependent care allowance, 401(k) matching, and funding your personal learning mission each quarter.
- Generous and flexible time off: Recuperation is just as important as getting things done, so we encourage our team to recharge their batteries often.
- Best-in-class tech and software: We’ll even support making your home office awesome. No more working at the coffee table.
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
David Blake
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)David started his career as an Oliver Wyman Management Consultant, before leaving after a year and a half to found Chegg. He then co-founded Degreed in January 2012, serving as CEO until 2018 and Executive Chairman since.
Eric Sharp
(Technology Advisor & Co-Founder)Director of Software Dev at MediConnect Global, acquired by Verisk for $348M.Developer and director at Novarad.
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