Backend Engineer — .NET, Go & Azure Cloud

Company Description
Unicorn Lab is an innovation hub with a global presence, headquartered in the USA and operating across the UAE and Kuwait. The company focuses on building impactful ideas, products, and communication platforms that deliver transformative solutions to communities worldwide. Unicorn Lab brings together industry leaders, clients, advanced technology platforms, and skilled engineers to turn visionary concepts into scalable products and services. Collaboration and diverse perspectives are central to its culture, enabling bold ideas to move seamlessly from design to deployment. Team members join a mission-driven environment where innovation is aligned with purpose and community empowerment.
Role Description
This is a remote contract role for a Backend Engineer specializing in .NET, Go, and Azure Cloud. The Backend Engineer will design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure backend services and APIs, ensuring high performance and reliability for distributed systems. Daily responsibilities include implementing new features, optimizing existing code, integrating third-party services, and collaborating closely with front-end engineers, product managers, and QA teams. The role involves working with Azure Cloud services for deployment, monitoring, and automation, as well as contributing to architectural decisions, code reviews, and technical documentation. The Backend Engineer will also troubleshoot production issues, improve system observability, and follow best practices for security, testing, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD).
Qualifications
Strong skills in Back-End Web Development and Software Development, with hands-on experience building APIs and microservices using .NET and Go.
Proficiency in Programming and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), including clean code principles, design patterns, and testable architectures.
Ability to collaborate effectively with Front-End Development teams, ensuring seamless integration between backend services and user-facing applications.
Experience with Azure Cloud services (e.g., App Service, Functions, Containers, Storage, SQL/NoSQL databases) and CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with RESTful and/or gRPC APIs, version control systems (e.g., Git), and automated testing frameworks.
Understanding of security best practices, performance optimization, monitoring, and logging in cloud-native environments.
Excellent problem-solving skills, clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to work independently in a remote, distributed team.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience in high-availability or large-scale systems and prior work in an innovation-driven or product-focused environment is a plus.

Skills
.NET, Golang, Azure

Work arrangement
Yes