Senior Backend Engineer

The company

Planning is done in RightCapital and portfolios are managed in Orion. Most clients live within an hour's drive and come in for reviews twice a year.

The position

Looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Remote within Portugal. The team meets in Braga once a quarter, travel covered.

Duties

• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups

You'll need

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Compensation and benefits

Salary range: €3,100 - €3,500 per month

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

Candidates must be eligible to work in Portugal.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Start: Flexible.

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