Backend Engineer Serreira

Backend Engineer
Lisboa
Serreira, Lisboa, Portugal

Syffer is an
- inclusive consulting company focused on talent, tech, and innovation. We exist to elevate companies and humans worldwide, making change from the inside out.

We believe that technology combined with human kindness positively impacts every community globally. Our approach is simple: we see a world without borders and believe in equal opportunities. We are guided by our core principles of spreading positivity, good energy, and promoting equality and care for others.

Our hiring process is unique! People are selected based on their value, education, talent, and personality. We do not consider ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, or identity.

It's time to burst the bubble, and we will do it together!

What You'll do:

• Design, build, and maintain backend applications with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability;
• Collaborate with
  - functional teams to define, design, and implement new features and enhancements;
• Promote best practices in code quality, security, and testing throughout the development lifecycle;
• Proactively troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software systems;
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive continuous innovation;
• Work in a hybrid work model.

What You Are:

• 5+ years of proven experience as a Backend Engineer or in a similar role within
  - functional teams;
• Proficiency in Kotlin for backend development;
• Strong
  - on experience with Spring Boot and Ktor frameworks;
• Solid knowledge of SQL and relational databases, including optimization and schema design;
• Familiarity with REST API design, microservices architecture, and cloud services (preferably AWS);
• Experience working in Agile environments with iterative delivery and continuous feedback;
• Excellent
  - solving and debugging skills, with a focus on performance tuning;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Preferred Qualifications / Bonus Points:

• Experience with
  - driven architectures (e. g. , Kafka, SNS/SQS);
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code tools (e. g. , Terraform);
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes;
• Background working in startups or
  - paced environments.

What you'll get:

• Salary according to professional experience;
• Remote work whenever possible;
• Health insurance from the beginning of employment;
• Work equipment suited to your role;
• And more.

Work alongside expert teams on large,
- term projects with clients who are leaders in their industries.

Are you ready to step into a diverse and inclusive world with us?

Together we will promote uniqueness!

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