Principal Software Engineer

About us

We are a small community bank where the loan officer and the branch manager are often the same person. Every teller is cross-trained on new accounts, cashier's checks and safe deposit boxes. Founded in 1981, we now have 42 employees. Most lenders have lived in the area for decades and know their borrowers.

Role overview

The Principal Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. This role is fully remote within Portugal. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in.

Day to day

• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.

About you

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.

What we offer

• Private health insurance.
• Flexible remuneration plan.
• Remote work allowance.
• Meal vouchers.
• Training budget.

Tell us your notice period and what salary you are looking for.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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