Senior Backend Engineer (.Net) - Team Lead Track

Senior Backend Engineer (.NET) - Team Lead Track About Brightpath Technologies Brightpath Technologies is building an all-in-one cannabis retail platform used by dispensaries across the United States. Our platform combines POS, eCommerce, Marketing, Analytics, Inventory Management, Loyalty, and customer engagement tools into a single ecosystem, helping retailers operate more efficiently and grow their businesses. Today, our team consists of 230+ people working remotely around the world. Product and engineering teams collaborate closely with our US-based business teams to build and scale the future of cannabis retail. About the Team You’ll join the Promo & Loyalty team, responsible for one of the most business-critical domains of our platform. The team owns the systems behind: promotions and discounts loyalty programs and rewards subscriptions pricing and financial calculations checkout pricing logic integrations with multiple product teams Because this domain powers multiple areas of the platform, the team works closely with eCommerce, Portal, POS, and other engineering teams. This role is designed for someone who wants to take the next step in their career. You’ll join as a Senior Backend Engineer with a clearly defined path toward becoming the future Team Lead of the Promo & Loyalty team. As you build deep expertise in the domain, you’ll gradually take ownership of technical leadership with mentorship and support from your Chapter Lead. What You’ll Do Design and develop backend services within our microservices ecosystem. Build new services for subscriptions and loyalty. Refactor and gradually extract business logic from the monolith into dedicated services. Design interfaces for exchanging financial data between engineering teams. Participate in architectural discussions and technical decision-making. Improve system performance, maintainability, and transparency. Review code and promote engineering best practices. Collaborate closely with engineers across multiple product teams. Gradually take ownership of leadership within the team. What You’ll Be Working On Some of the team’s current initiatives include: developing a customizable subscription platform building a new Loyalty service improving the architecture behind promotions and financial calculations extracting business logic from the monolith into dedicated services defining clearer service boundaries between engineering teams optimizing repositories and engineering workflows for AI-assisted development Tech Stack C#, .NET 8+, ASP.NET Core, Microservices, gRPC, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, SignalR, EF Core, Dapper, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Grafana, Git, GitLab CI/CD. What We’re Looking For 4+ years of backend development experience. Strong commercial experience with C# and .NET. Experience building and maintaining production systems. Experience working with large codebases. Experience with microservices and/or modular monoliths. Strong understanding of software architecture and backend design. Strong algorithmic thinking and problem-solving skills. Experience refactoring and evolving existing systems. Experience making technical decisions and taking ownership of solutions. Fast learner with the ability to quickly understand complex business domains. Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset. English level sufficient for written communication and occasional calls with international teammates. Experience using AI tools in software development workflows. Nice to Have Experience with fintech, payments, billing, or other financial systems. Experience decomposing monolithic applications. Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives. Kubernetes and CI/CD experience. What Matters Beyond Technology Ownership We’re looking for engineers who enjoy taking ownership of complex systems, driving technical improvements, and growing into engineering leadership. Communication This role requires close collaboration across multiple engineering teams. We value engineers who communicate clearly, align stakeholders, and build strong working relationships. Curiosity Success in this role depends on quickly understanding a complex business domain and continuously expanding your technical expertise. Pragmatism We value engineers who know how to balance engineering quality with business priorities and make thoughtful technical trade-offs. Adaptability Our business moves quickly, and priorities evolve. We’re looking for people who stay engaged, quickly absorb new context, and enjoy solving challenging technical problems. AI-Driven Engineering AI-assisted development is an important part of how we build software. We’re looking for engineers who are comfortable using AI tools to understand complex codebases, accelerate refactoring, analyze existing systems, and improve development workflows. We value people who see AI as a practical engineering tool and understand where it can be applied effectively. Working Style Fully remote. Flexible schedule. Core collaboration hours are