Freelance Backend Engineer

Twipe is a mediatech scale-up based in Leuven, Belgium working with leading newspaper publishers in Europe and the US to grow their digital subscribers and sustain quality journalism. We offer cloud based digital edition publishing, analytics, and personalization solutions. Our innovative solutions accelerate the growth of newspapers including Le Monde, The Telegraph and the various titles of Mediahuis (De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad, De Telegraaf,…). To inspire our industry, we gather and analyze industry knowledge and share insights with our growing Future of News publishers’ community. In order to modernize our whole back-end infrastructure to a cloud-native solution with horizontal scalability using domain driven and behavior driven design, we are looking for a Freelance Backend Developer to reinforce our team until the end of the year. What do you do? You build a scalable platform for millions of users with end-to-end feature delivery. You maintain system availability and monitoring while managing costs. You optimize CI/CD pipelines and write clean, testable code. You review pull requests to uphold team standards. You manage AWS infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code. You are part of the on-call system Your track record: 5+ years of experience in C# development Strong knowledge of C# .net (6 and >) Experience with relational databases such as SQL, cloud technologies such as AWS Knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as Terraform is a strong plus Experience with both API development and batch processing How do you make a difference? At twipe we highly value driven individuals that: Show proactive communication Enjoy being hands-on Raise the bar and strive for excellence in all your initiatives Have a strong work ethic and a real “can do” attitude Have a growth mindset and are constantly striving to learn new things and improve Why you’ll love working with us Are you ready to make a difference from day one? Join us in solving global challenges in the media sector as part of a tech scale-up that's making waves. Innovative Environment: Be part of a young, international team at the forefront of emerging technologies Creative Workspace: Work in a space where creativity, design, technology, and fun interesect Team Building & Wrap-up Fridays : Enjoy exciting team-building events throughout the year. Every second Friday, Learn from Demo’s, celebrate team achievements, and enjoy themed events. Inclusive Culture: We celebrate diversity, promote equality, and ensure a zero-tolerance policy for harassment and discrimination