Senior Backend Developer
- Application Deadline: Nov. 1, 2026
- Oslo
- Hybrid
Help Shape the Future of Digital Travel Experiences
At Hurtigruten, we're transforming the technology that powers one of the world's most iconic travel brands. As we modernize our booking platform and move toward a cloud-native architecture, we're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who thrives on solving complex engineering challenges, building scalable systems, and influencing technical direction.
This is an opportunity to join a highly skilled engineering team where you will have real ownership, contribute to architectural decisions, and help create the next generation of booking solutions used by customers across the globe.
What You'll Be Working On
As a Senior Backend Developer, you will play a key role in redesigning and modernizing our booking ecosystem.
You will:
- Design and develop secure, scalable, and high-performing backend services
- Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude and Claude Code to accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards for code quality and security
- Help shape how the team adopts and gets the most out of AI tools in our development workflow
- Build and maintain APIs that support customer-facing products and business-critical integrations
- Contribute to the evolution of our cloud-native architecture on Azure
- Collaborate with architects, frontend engineers, product teams, and DevOps specialists
- Drive engineering best practices, code quality, and continuous improvement
- Participate in technical design discussions and architectural decision-making
- Mentor and support fellow engineers through knowledge sharing and collaboration
- Help improve system reliability, observability, performance, and resilience
Our Technology Stack
You'll work with modern technologies including:
- .NET / C#
- Azure Cloud Services
- REST APIs
- GraphQL
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Event-Driven and Asynchronous Systems
- CI/CD and DevOps Practices
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
What We Are Looking For
You will likely have:
- 5+ years of backend development experience in SaaS or enterprise environments
- Strong expertise in .NET and API development
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants in professional development, with a critical eye for reviewing and validating generated code
- Experience designing and building distributed systems and microservices
- Solid understanding of cloud-native development, preferably within Azure
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized deployments
- Understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and modern software architecture patterns
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- A collaborative mindset and passion for engineering excellence
What Will Make You Stand Out
- Experience modernizing legacy platforms
- Experience with agentic coding workflows, such as delegating larger tasks to AI agents and reviewing their output effectively
- Experience establishing practices or guidelines for responsible AI tool use in engineering teams
- Experience working in high-transaction systems
- Strong understanding of event-driven architecture
- A genuine interest in balancing technical excellence with business value
- Ability to influence technical decisions and lead by example
Why Join Hurtigruten?
- Make a Real Impact
- You'll help transform a critical platform at the heart of the customer journey.
- Modern Engineering Environment
- Work with cloud-native technologies, automation, and contemporary software engineering practices.
- Collaborative Culture
- Join a team that values openness, trust, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing.
- Meaningful Product
- International, global work environment
- Build solutions that support extraordinary travel experiences and connect people with some of the world's most unique destinations.
Location: Oslo, Norway (Hybrid)
We offer:
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- A collaborative and inclusive culture where ideas, innovation, and continuous improvement are valued.
- Staff rates on Hurtigruten voyages for you and your family.
We believe the best ideas come from diverse teams and encourage applications from people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Ready to help build the future of booking technology? We'd love to hear from you.
Great Place to Work
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Our team operates across many different roles all over the world. Each person makes an important contribution to deliver guest-centric and memorable experiences.
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At the heart of Hurtigruten is a passion for exploration and travel. It’s shared by our team who seek out the remarkable in order to inspire guests and each other.
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Our team has an unrelenting quest for improvement — for our business, our guests, the places we visit and their communities, and the planet as a whole.
About the company
Hurtigruten is one of the world’s great journeys, sailing and caring for the Norwegian coast since 1893. We are proud to be a national icon for generations of Norwegians and to have a special place in the hearts of our guests from around the world.
Our Original voyages connect 34 coastal communities. It is the classic way to travel the Norwegian coast as a local and has rightly become known as ‘The World’s Most Beautiful Voyage’.
To mark our 130-year anniversary, we launched an exclusive range of Signature cruises. These premium sailings showcase our favourite places of Norway’s coast with several hours spent in each port.
Quick overviewWe've been caring for our coast for 130 years and want to do whatever we can to help protect it for another 130 years and more. We’re creating sustainable travel experiences, striving to keep our footprint small and impact lasting.
Single-use plastic banHurtigruten was the first major travel company to have removed single-use plastic from its entire fleet and our hotels.
Hurtigruten FoundationThe Foundation specialises in the conservation of endangered species, fighting against marine and plastic pollution.
EmissionsCurbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is crucial if we are to keep global warming in check. We know that the travel industry has work to do reducing its impact on the climate, so we’ve set out ways we can make a real difference by focusing on concrete, measurable solutions.
PeopleOur employees are at the heart of who we are. They’re the people who drive our business forward, the faces that guests see on board our ships, and the advocates for our brand.
CommunitySince 1893 we have been a lifeline on the Norwegian coast. The route we founded binds the country together, transporting people and delivering goods. Travel and tourism a catalysts for value creation in the beautiful local communities we are so lucky to visit and cooperate with.
Kato Griff Klæboe | Contact Person
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