Engineering

Backend Engineer

About Cohesion

Cohesion is a smart building technology company offering a suite of software products, AI solutions, and advisory services that integrates people, systems, and spaces for real estate, providing seamless solutions for modernized security access control, smart maintenance, enhanced people experiences, and energy management.

About the Position

What you will do

You will write very good code and ensure code is written to produce quality, reliable solutions.  From the moment you join the company, you will work on innovative solutions, ensuring they meet customer expectations. Here are some bullets that help understand the role:

  • Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of the team’s customers in a microservices environment  
  • Build soft real-time systems for alerting and notifications
  • Work closely with a polyglot team of engineers to ensure optimal cross platform coordination
  • Work closely with operations and software engineering teams to design and implement scalable and high-performance solutions for our platform and internal management tools.
  • Drive automation of application deployment for production and pre-release environments.
  • Design, implement, and manage continuous integration, build management, and deployment scripts and systems.
  • Quickly and efficiently troubleshoot simple and complex issues in order to provide outstanding support.
  • Define, build, and support environments, including development, QA, and production.
  • Identify areas for process and efficiency improvement within platform operations; recommend solutions and assist in implementation.

Required Qualifications

  • Minimum of 3 years of overall related experience.
  • Hands-on experience with .NET Core and C#
  • Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) and Tools (Azure DevOps)
  • Experience working in a global team.
  • Production experience running applications at scale on a cloud platform.
  • Understanding of automation practices throughout the development, build, and deployment phases of the application lifecycle.
  • Strong conceptual, strategic thinking, problem solving, technical, and analytical skills.
  • Experience with the following technology concepts:
  • Designing and building microservice based architectures
  • SaaS Platform development
  • Frontend development
  • Security best practices
  • Production Kubernetes experience

Desired Qualifications

What You Can Expect From Cohesion

Cohesion is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees in the United States. Our benefits are designed to invest in our employees— and their family’s—well-being, including investments in their health, happiness, and wellness.

  • Receiving a competitive compensation package and potential to participate in an annual performance bonus.
  • Eligible for generous benefits such as health/dental/vision insurance, short- and long-term disability, and an employer sponsored 401k match program.
  • Transit Benefits Program - tax-free benefitsto assist with commuting costs.
  • Receiving a monthly cell phone reimbursement
  • Eligibility to participate in the WellnessReimbursement Program after 6 months of employment.
  • Enjoying a responsible unlimited PTO programafter 3 months of employment to help employees manage work-life harmony.
  • Working in an open environment with creativeoptional brainstorming sessions for all employees  
  • Participating in an Annual All StaffGathering that is a two-day mix of professional development and fun.
  • Participating in an all-employee lunch permonth, an all-employee breakfast per month, and monthly social event
  • A hybrid work environment – Chicago-based employees work out of our bright and sunny HQ office Tuesday through Thursdayand enjoy snacks, drinks, collaboration space, and an outdoor patio overlooking the Chicago River
  • Up to 4 weeks annually of fully remote work
  • Pet insurance

AtCohesion, we see diversity and inclusion as a source of strength. We believe building trust and innovation are best achieved through diverse thought and practice. Individuals seeking employment at Cohesion are considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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