Senior Backend Engineer
AidnNorway21 hours ago
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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
Team Back Office
As part of team Back Office, you’ll help evolve and operate the backend services that power our healthcare platform. In the coming months, this will include projects such as:
As part of team Open Aidn, you’ll help build the foundation for a truly connected healthcare ecosystem—where data flows securely between systems and partners, and developers can easily extend the platform.
Your work will include:
We believe in reducing complexity by choosing modern, reliable tools that are proven in production—favoring simplicity over novelty, and stability over hype.
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
🔍 You’re likely motivated by…
We believe clarity helps everyone thrive. Here’s what success could look like in this role:
In 3 months:
🔑 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
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.
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
Team Back Office
As part of team Back Office, 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.
As part of team Open Aidn, you’ll help build the foundation for a truly connected healthcare ecosystem—where data flows securely between systems and partners, and developers can easily extend the platform.
Your work will include:
- Open Aidn Platform: Designing and evolving the integration and data exchange layer that connects Aidn to external systems and partners.
- Self-Service & Monitoring Portal: Building the next generation of our Platform Admin UI for municipal and Aidn administrators—providing real-time visibility, control, and insights into system operations.
- Public FHIR APIs: Implementing secure, standards-based APIs for importing and exporting healthcare data.
- Developer Portal & Sandbox: Creating developer-facing tools and environments that make integration, testing, and onboarding simple and safe.
- Synthetic Data Services: Developing synthetic data generation tools to support safe testing, performance validation, and sandbox environments.
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
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—proficiency in .NET / C# and comfort working with SQL (PostgreSQL or SQL Server) , 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.
- Strong communication skills—able to collaborate across teams, explain complex issues clearly.
- Cooperate well and play other good – you share knowledge either verbal or written, explain your thinking, and help others do their best work.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Azure or similar, distributed systems, and observability tools.
- 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.
- Experience with FHIR-based APIs or integrations in healthcare or other regulated industries
- Experience balancing multiple projects with parallel deadlines.
- Collaborative & Reliable – You work well with others, build trust, and follow through on your commitments.
- Detail-Oriented & Accountable – You handle sensitive data carefully and understand the importance of getting things right.
- Curious & Adaptable – You enjoy learning new systems and switching contexts between building, debugging, and improving processes.
- Calm Under Pressure – You stay steady when timelines are tight or data issues arise, focusing on solving the problem together.
- 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’re likely motivated by…
- Tackling Hard Problems – You thrive on solving complex technical challenges—whether it’s orchestrating multi-system data migrations, designing APIs that integrate seamlessly, or automating what was once manual and fragile.
- Reducing Complexity – You take pride in simplifying systems, creating clean, maintainable backend services that are easy for others to understand, operate, and build upon.
- Driving Operational Excellence – You care about reliability, performance, and observability. You want the systems you build to run smoothly, scale gracefully, and be easy to diagnose when something goes wrong.
- Enabling Others – You enjoy building tools and APIs that make other developers more productive. Seeing others move faster and more confidently because of your work is deeply satisfying.
- Delivering Real Impact – You’re motivated by seeing your code in action—enabling municipalities to go live faster, clinicians to work more efficiently, and data to flow securely across healthcare systems.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
🔑 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 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.
- Recruitment for this role will start mid January'26****
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