Senior Backend Engineer
Comparaja Pt · Lisbon, PT ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Backend
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to drive the architecture and development of our high-quality software. You will own complex technical features end-to-end, ensuring that our products are built to modern engineering standards while championing a culture of code quality and technical excellence. The ideal candidate will have a deep background in both frontend and backend development, experience providing technical mentorship to fellow engineers, and a passion for optimizing application performance and system scalability.
This is an office role based in Alvalade, Lisbon with flexibility to work remotely.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the development of high-quality software: Take hands-on ownership of complex backend features from end to end. Write robust code while ensuring solutions meet business requirements and adhere to the highest standards of performance, security, and scalability.
- Optimize the codebase and developer experience: Identify technical debt and continuously improve tooling, build processes, and system architecture to increase engineering efficiency and reduce deployment bottlenecks.
- Mentorship and technical guidance: Provide hands-on support to junior and mid-level engineers. Elevate the team's technical bar through rigorous code reviews, pair programming, and active knowledge sharing.
- Champion modern development standards: Actively write testable, maintainable code and promote engineering best practices, including comprehensive automated testing, CI/CD integration, and clean architecture principles.
- Collaborate across functions: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to seamlessly translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a shared vision across the product lifecycle.
- Architectural contribution: Design robust backend systems and help drive technical decisions around tools, APIs, and frameworks, ensuring the long-term scalability and maintainability of the application.
- Innovate and explore: Continuously evaluate new technologies and methodologies to keep our tech stack modern. Leverage emerging tools to rapidly prototype ideas, solve complex problems, and accelerate development.
Requirements
About You
- Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, with a willingness to touch both backend and some frontend application development.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with teams across the organisation.
- You have an analytical mindset to develop the best-fit technical solution.
- You have an understanding of IT infrastructure, architecture, as well as a good understanding of non-technical parts of the business.
- You are comfortable working in an international environment.
Skills Required:
- Experienced working through the design, development, release cycle, and delivering software products to market, with a track record of successful delivery of software applications as an individual and tech leader
- Experience with managing the development of SaaS and cloud-based applications
- Our stack is: C#, Python, Nuxt, PostgreSQL, all on AWS. The more experience in each the better, but all definitely not necessary.
- Fluency in Portuguese and English is required.
Start date: as soon as possible
Perks
What We Offer
- Health insurance
- Meal card
- Transport subsidy
- Opportunity to work on meaningful projects that power internal operations
- A supportive, fast-moving, and collaborative team environment