Senior Software Engineer

At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for job seekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match, in fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.

At our Tech Hub, located near Wilanowska Metro, we are here as more than 300 ambitious specialists who work on the development of our IT products. We are proud to be part of The Stepstone Group, a global expert in job-tech platforms and e-recruiting.

Join our team of 4,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job-tech platform.

Job Description

Join our team and you’ll be responsible for designing, building, and evolving scalable core .NET services that power the recruitment process for our clients — all within an event-driven architecture and with an openness to exploring and adopting emerging technologies that can enhance our solutions.

As a member of our team, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design and deliver high-performance backend solutions, shape architectural decisions, and actively contribute to the evolution of our distributed systems platform. We value curiosity, experimentation, and a willingness to learn — we encourage you to bring forward ideas for new tools, frameworks, or patterns that could improve performance, scalability, and developer experience.

By joining us, you will play a vital role as together we reimagine the labor market to make it work for everybody.

Your responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality .NET-based backend services in a distributed, event-driven architecture

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define, plan, and implement new features

• Explore, evaluate, and introduce new technologies and tools that can improve scalability, reliability, or developer efficiency

• Ensure software quality through code reviews, unit/integration testing, and continuous delivery practices

• Take part in architectural discussions and decisions affecting multiple services and domains

• Contribute to improving our engineering culture, tools, and processes, fostering a mindset of continuous learning and innovation

Qualifications

• Proven experience in backend development using .NET (C#), including ASP.NET Core

• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture, messaging patterns, and distributed systems (Kafka, SQS)

• Experience with cloud-native development (preferably in AWS or Azure)

• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and modern development workflows

• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset

• Solid understanding of Entity Framework / EF Core

• Experience with relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL)

• Good knowledge of RESTful API design and implementation

• Familiarity with design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean code practices

• Understanding of application security best practices (e.g., OWASP, OAuth2, JWT)

• Openness to experimenting with new technologies, frameworks, and approaches to continuously improve our platform

Additional Information

We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• Premium medical and dental care

• Life insurance

• Flex Benefits - Worksmile Cafeteria System (Multisport, vouchers, tickets etc.)

• Employee Referral Program

• Hackathons, Knowledge Sharing Hours, In-house projects

• Tech and sport communities

• Events and integration parties

• Charity initiatives, 2 extra volunteer days

• English/German classes

• Game room and chillout zone

Our commitmentEqual opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.