Staff Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Architectural Ownership: Take charge of critical system components.
• - Visionary Thinking: Articulate the 'why' behind each technical decision with clarity and passion.
• - Continuous Innovation: Bring fresh ideas and strategic trade-offs rooted in a deep understanding of our users.
• - Iterative Development: Build features incrementally with a focus on early feedback and continuous improvement.
• - Mentorship: Foster a culture of innovation and collaboration through technical coaching and inclusion.

Required Skills

• - Cloud environments / distributed systems / microservices (AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes)
• - Architecting scalable solutions and API design
• - Authentication & authorisation for APIs
• - Server-side languages (we mainly use Kotlin and TypeScript)
• - Testing frameworks, observability, and monitoring
• - Credit or other payments-related systems

Benefits

• - Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• - Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets 🍜
• - Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• - We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• - For our Engineering team we offer fully remote options of work - If you would like to work from the office that is fine too.
• - Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• - Wellbeing days - fully paid days off designed for a slower pace, allowing you to take time to recharge and prioritise self-care
• - We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far ❤️‍🩹
• - Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• - Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶