Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Oslo, Bergen, Bodø, or from anywhere in Norway

Salary: 1.1-1.2 MNOK/year

Senior Backend Engineer

Help us create the software that is changing Norwegian healthcare.

🌍 Why this role matters

At Aidn, we're operating and creating the missing healthcare platform all Norwegians deserve—an integrated set of services and applications that allows municipal institutions, healthcare professionals, social workers, and citizens to collaborate on healthcare matters as a single team.

We’re proven we can deliver to smaller municipalities, scaling quickly and will soon onboard larger municipalities and thousands more users, transforming our platform into a part of critical infrastructure for Norwegian healthcare. Behind every product team delivering life-changing tools, there’s higly skilled software engineers that make sure what we build is the best solution to their problem and at the same time loveable, fast, secure, and reliable.

That’s where you come in.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you’ll design, build, and operate the services that power our mission-critical systems. he work you do will give healthcare workers tools they can trust, reduce administrative burden, and ultimately help bring better and faster care to people who need it.

This role is not just about writing code—it’s about impact. And the decisions you make now will shape how healthcare is delivered for years to come.

🔧 What You’ll Be Working On

As part of Aidn, you’ll help evolve and operate the backend services that power our healthcare platform. In the coming months, this will include projects such as:

• Bed Logistics - Right now, providing an overview of available beds in municipal care homes is a top priority for team Back office. Having this insight is key to ensuring resources are used in the best possible way. With the current shortage, giving municipalities a clear overview will help them optimize capacity and ensure more people receive care when they need it.
• Operational Insight - As part of team Back office you will own the insight module that administrative personnel use to get an overview of their operations and expenses. Part of our mission is to give decision support to our users, where this insight will enable municipalities to make better decisions on how they operate to be able to optimise operations further.
• Developer experience is important for you to thrive but also your colleagues. Maintaining and improving our experience is an investment cherished by all and enables us to work faster and with ease.
• Observe the impact you develop using our LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) and Amplitude. We care about what we build and continuously observe its impact to make sure that we build the tooling our users need and want.
  
  

🛠️ Current Tech Stack

We believe in reducing complexity by choosing modern, reliable tools that are proven in production—favoring simplicity over novelty, and stability over hype.

• Backend Languages & Frameworks: C#, .NET
• Cloud & Hosting: Microsoft Azure
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (AKS)
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Crossplane, Jsonnet
• CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions (self-hosted), ArgoCD, GitOps
• Observability: Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir, Pyroscope
• Security & Access: Teleport, ZScaler, Azure WAF, Mnemonic
• Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, Kafka
• Developer Platform: Backstage, service catalogs, internal tooling
  
  

🤝 What We're Looking For

We’re looking for a hands-on backend engineer who’s curious, collaborative, and motivated by building systems that matter. You care deeply about reliability, data integrity, and designing services that stand the test of time.

🧠 Must-Haves

• Solid experience delivering and operating software at scale—you’ve written the code in C# / .NET or similar, optimised the database and finetuned API endpoints to meet required performance and quality needs
• Ability to reason about distributed systems operated in the cloud, it’s performance and reliability – you’re comfortable suggesting improvements to fellow senior engineers and sees it as continuous work
• Cooperate well and play other good – you share knowledge either verbal or written, explain your thinking, and help others do their best work.
  
  

🌟 Nice-to-Haves

• 5+ years of experience as a developer for a SaaS company.
• Experience designing or improving CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, or developer tooling.
• Background in a regulated industry like healthcare or finance.
• Time spent in a startup/scale-up or fast-moving environment where you’ve had to figure things out quickly and independently.
  
  

💬 Personal Attributes

• Collaborative & Clear Communicator – Works well across teams, builds trust, and brings others along.
• Honest & Direct – You say what you mean in an emphatic way and value transparency.
• Supportive & Service-Minded – You help others level up and keep things moving.
  
  

You Bring Your Self – You bring a human touch, even in complex systems.

🔍 You’re likely motivated by…

• Tackling hard problems that require creativity and good technical judgment.
• Reducing complexity by building simple, maintainable solutions.
• Driving operational excellence—building secure, reliable code others can trust.
• Sharing knowledge and creating leverage across teams through tools, documentation, and mentorship.
  
  

✅ What Success Looks Like

We believe clarity helps everyone thrive. Here’s what success could look like in this role:

In 3 months:

• You’ve gotten to know our platform, our teams, and our priorities—and built trust with key stakeholders.
• You’ve shipped small but impactful functionality to production and can see its impact and usage through our metrics.
• You’re participating in team discussions, asking questions, and helping us see things we might miss.
  
  

In 6 months:

• You’re a go-to person for questions related to your team's domain and a dependable force in our delivery process.
• You’ve taken ownership of a piece of your domain—maybe a new feature, a shared service, or even a new subdomain.
• You’ve helped improve how we work—whether through automation, documentation, or nudging us toward better defaults.
  
  

In 12 months:

• You’re leading initiatives that improve user experience, resilience, scale, and developer experience across the company.
• You’ve helped embed best practices across product teams, improved developer experience, and reduced friction on behalf of our users.
• You’ve become a strong voice in product and technology strategy—helping shape not just how we work, but what we work on.
  
  

💙 Why you’ll love working here

🔑 High trust, real ownership

You’ll be trusted to make decisions, take initiative, and shape your own path. There’s little bureaucracy, and we hire people we trust to figure things out.

🚀 Growth that actually means something

You’ll get the chance to leave a real mark on how our platform evolves. As the company scales, your opportunities to lead, mentor, and influence strategy will grow alongside it.

🧠 Support to get better

You’ll have regular 1:1s, feedback, and mentoring from experienced engineering leaders. We support personal development through learning budgets, conference access, and time for deep work.

🧘 Flexibility that respects your life

Work from home, from one of our local offices, or take a workation if you need a change of scenery. We trust you to manage your time in a way that works for you and your team.

🎁 Perks And Benefits

• 6 weeks vacation
• Flexible location and working hours
• Employee shares—you can own a piece of what you build
• A collaborative, caring team that values both kindness and excellence
  
  

Aidn is part of the Kernel cooperation, where we build technology for the next generation of welfare societies. With financial backing in order, we are privileged to be a fully autonomous startup busy building our company from the ground up the way we see fit.

Aidn recognizes and celebrates diversity in all its forms, visible and non-visible in all areas of the work environment. We work to promote an anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels safe and welcome.

Read our full Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging policy in our handbook here.

Are you curious? We welcome you to check out our employee handbook to get to know us, some of our benefits, and what drives us.