Platform Engineer

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to join a leading retail client in Vancouver, BC. This role will focus on building and enhancing scalable backend services within a Microsoft-centric ecosystem, leveraging modern cloud and distributed system patterns. As a key contributor, you will be responsible for implementing technical designs into production-ready solutions, working primarily with .NET, C#, APIs, and event-driven/pub-sub architectures.

This role is scoped for a strong mid-to-senior level engineer who can operate independently within an established architecture and development framework. You will collaborate closely with platform and product engineering teams to deliver high-quality, reliable services in a cloud-based environment, primarily within AWS. While you will not be responsible for translating business requirements into system design, you will play a critical role in executing on those designs and ensuring best practices across performance, scalability, and maintainability.

The team is highly collaborative and values strong cultural alignment, ownership, and a product-minded approach to engineering. Must Haves 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on backend/platform development Strong experience with Microsoft stack technologies including .NET and C# Experience building and maintaining APIs and distributed systems Hands-on experience with event-driven or pub/sub asynchronous architectures Experience working in AWS cloud environments Exposure to AI engineering workflows or tooling Ability to take technical designs and implement solutions independently with minimal oversight Plusses Experience with test automation frameworks and practices Experience implementing and leveraging observability tools (Datadog preferred) Experience with Kiro or a similar AI-assisted development tools #J-18808-Ljbffr