Security Engineer
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💻 Engineering⏰ Full-time📈 Mid Level💰 $66k-175k🇺🇸 USA
5h ago
Sweedpos.Com·about 2 months ago
We're SweedPos, a product-driven startup building an all-in-one cannabis retail platform. We’re on the lookout for a Backend Engineer to join us remotely.
At Sweed, we’re reimagining how cannabis retailers operate. Our enterprise-grade platform combines POS, eCommerce, Marketing, Analytics and Inventory Management into a single, seamless solution—eliminating the need for multiple third-party tools.
We believe in simplicity, efficiency, and innovation. That’s why we build for scalability and performance, making life easier for cannabis retailers while driving real business growth.
At Sweed, we believe in the medicinal potential of cannabis. It has been shown to help with chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and many other conditions. Despite the lingering stigma, we see cannabis as a powerful tool for improving lives.
The industry is evolving rapidly, and we’re here to drive that transformation—making cannabis retail more efficient, accessible, and customer-friendly.
We’ve been on the market for 8 years, continuously growing and refining our product.
Our focus is on earning customer trust, which means constantly improving our delivery processes and rolling out new features. At the same time, we navigate the complex legal landscape of the cannabis industry, ensuring our platform remains compliant and future-proof.
Our total team size is over 200 people:
The development team is distributed globally and organized into cross-functional product teams. These teams typically consist of 8–12 members, including front-end and back-end developers, QA specialists, and analysts.
Each team is led by a Team Lead and a Product Owner, ensuring effective collaboration and clear direction.
Meanwhile, our CEO, account managers, and customer success team are based in the USA, working closely with us to align product development with business and user needs.
Design and develop backend services within our microservices ecosystem.
Build new services for subscriptions and loyalty.
Refactor and gradually extract business logic from the monolith into dedicated services.
Design interfaces for exchanging financial data between engineering teams.
Participate in architectural discussions and technical decision-making.
Improve system performance, maintainability, and transparency.
Review code and promote engineering best practices.
Collaborate closely with engineers across multiple product teams.
Gradually take ownership of leadership within the team.
Some of the team’s current initiatives include:
developing a customizable subscription platform
building a new Loyalty service
improving the architecture behind promotions and financial calculations
extracting business logic from the monolith into dedicated services
defining clearer service boundaries between engineering teams
optimizing repositories and engineering workflows for AI-assisted development
C#, .NET 8+, ASP.NET Core, Microservices, gRPC, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, SignalR, EF Core, Dapper, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Grafana, Git, GitLab CI/CD.
4+ years of backend development experience.
Strong commercial experience with C# and .NET.
Experience building and maintaining production systems.
Experience working with large codebases.
Experience with microservices and/or modular monoliths.
Strong understanding of software architecture and backend design.
Strong algorithmic thinking and problem-solving skills.
Experience refactoring and evolving existing systems.
Experience making technical decisions and taking ownership of solutions.
Fast learner with the ability to quickly understand complex business domains.
Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
English level sufficient for written communication and occasional calls with international teammates.
Experience using AI tools in software development workflows.
Experience with fintech, payments, billing, or other financial systems.
Experience decomposing monolithic applications.
Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.
Kubernetes and CI/CD experience.
AI-assisted development is an important part of how we build software.
We’re looking for engineers who are comfortable using AI tools to understand complex codebases, accelerate refactoring, analyze existing systems, and improve development workflows. We value people who see AI as a practical engineering tool and understand where it can be applied effectively.
Two-week planning cycles with a Kanban-oriented workflow.
Regular technical discussions, retrospectives, and planning sessions.
Salary in USD (B2B contract with the US company)
100% remote – We’re a remote-first company, no offices needed!
Flexible working hours – Core team time: 10:00-16:00 CET (flexible per team)
20 paid vacation days + 12 holidays per year
3 sick leave days
Medical insurance after probation
Equipment reimbursement (laptops, monitors, etc.)
Technical discussion with a strong focus on backend fundamentals, refactoring, algorithms, and problem-solving.
Introduction, role overview, experience discussion, and English check.
Architecture discussion focused on designing scalable backend systems and analyzing technical trade-offs.
A conversation with the Chapter Lead, Product Manager, and Tech Lead focused on leadership potential, ownership, and long-term fit for the team.
Measured from remote postings we have tracked ourselves — not self-reported survey data.
Based on 6,197 comparable postings with disclosed salaries, last 12 months.
Tracked since June 2025.