Backend Engineer - Lisbon

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Bob

Hi
Bob helps modern mid‑size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we’ve achieved consecutive triple‑digit year‑over‑year growth, backed by our amazing Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over 3, 500 midsize and multinational companies.

Our HR platform is intuitive, data‑driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Fast‑growing companies like Monzo, Happy Socks, Fiverr, and Vayner
Media rely on Hi
Bob to create the best work experiences for their people.

Come and be you with us

Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work.

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a strong emphasis on backend development.
• Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable architecture.
• Experience with testing methodologies—unit‑testing, TDD, mocking, etc.
• Experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform.
• Experience with relational databases like Postgre
  SQL, My
  SQL, etc.
• Willingness and openness to help us decouple from and replace legacy systems (C#).
• Independent, fast learner, and excited about learning new technologies.
• Proactive team player with a desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers.

The following are a big plus

• Experience with Python as a primary programming language.
• Experience with large‑scale data transforms.
• Experience with Spark, Airflow, Kafka.
• Experience with OLAP datastores, e. g. Single
  Store.

Job Responsibilities

What will you do?

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable back‑end systems for the data ingestion backbone of our Financial Planning product.
• Collaborate with product managers, front‑end engineers, and other stakeholders to implement new features and ensure alignment with the overall product roadmap.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Integrate with external data providers, such as Snowflake, Net
  Suite and Stripe.
• Build and optimize APIs to support seamless integrations across our platform.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Take ownership of the full development cycle, including technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

As a Backend Engineer on the team, you’ll have a key role in developing our product and its unique features, working closely with our Product team.

You should be passionate about software engineering and building a product end‑to‑end.

You will be responsible for owning the dev cycle from the technical design, through coding and testing, to deployment and monitoring.

We work in a true continuous delivery environment with fully automated QA processes on a microservices architecture, deploying to production dozens of times every day.

Benefits

• Company share options plan
• Health Insurance for you and your family.
• Flexible hybrid working model
• Work from home allowance—home office setup support
• 2 Social Impact days per year for volunteering
• Referral bonus of $2, 500 per successful referral, plus ambassador program
• Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 2 months after 6 months of employment
• Company social events locally and virtually with global teams
• Company balance days—company‑wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter
• Competitive compensation and pre‑IPO equity

Seniority Level

Entry level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Software Development

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Bob by 2×.