Senior Engineer, Backend

The Impact You'll Make

Do you enjoy building reliable backend systems that turn complex IoT data into valuable digital products? Are you passionate about distributed systems, modern engineering practices and taking ownership of solutions from design to production? Then this could be the opportunity for you.

As our Senior Engineer, Backend , you’ll play a key role in building the services that power digital and IoT solutions across Danfoss Climate Solutions. Your work will help transform industrial data into reliable, scalable and valuable digital products for our customers.

Working within our Digital Application Solutions team, you’ll combine strong hands-on backend engineering skills with a product-focused mindset, owning capabilities from service design and data flows through testing, delivery and production. You’ll have the autonomy to solve complex engineering challenges while continuously improving the quality and reliability of our solutions.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, build and evolve production-grade backend services for industrial IoT solutions using Go, MQTT, Kafka and modern distributed-system patterns
• Own backend capabilities end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to automated testing, deployment, observability and production reliability
• Translate product and customer needs into pragmatic technical solutions, collaborating across engineering teams and service boundaries
• Build and improve event-driven data flows and integrations that reliably process and expose industrial IoT data
• Drive engineering quality through thoughtful design, code reviews, test automation, secure development practices and CI/CD
• Investigate operational challenges and continuously improve the performance, scalability and maintainability of our backend services

What We're Looking For

• Strong hands-on experience developing production software in Go within complex, real-world environments
• Experience designing distributed or IoT backend services, including MQTT; experience with Kafka and Sparkplug B is considered an advantage
• Hands-on experience with automated testing, CI/CD and containerized environments using technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong problem-solving skills and an ownership mindset, with the ability to take solutions from design through deployment and production
• Good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product and technical teams
• Experience with GitOps, TypeScript, React or structured AI-assisted engineering practices is considered an advantage

What You'll Get From Us

• We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
• You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
• We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.

Compensation & Benefits

• Permanent Contract
• Collective Labour Agreement (CCNL): Metalmeccanica Industria (CNEL Code C011)
• Annual Gross Salary Range: €50.000 - €60.000
• Bonus system: variable component expressed as a percentage of annual gross salary, linked to company performance.
• Salary review: conducted annually, based on individual merit and overall company performance.

Our Commitment to Transparency

Salary ranges listed reflect only primary location and currency. For local salary ranges and specific benefits in your preferred hiring location, please ask your Talent Acquisition representative for more information. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Any benefits listed do not promise or guarantee any particular benefit or specific action. They may depend on country or contract specifics and are subject to change at any time without prior notice.

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