Full-Stack Software Engineer Lisboa

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer at Super
Awesome, you’ll be part of a
- driven team building
- quality, scalable products that make the internet safer for the next generation.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver impactful features—primarily on the backend, but with opportunities to contribute across the full stack. You’ll help design and build services that power key areas of our platform, ensuring privacy, resilience, and performance are built in from day one.

Our engineers take ownership of the entire development lifecycle—from technical design and implementation to monitoring and continuous improvement. You’ll help shape engineering best practices, support your teammates, and drive the evolution of systems that serve hundreds of millions of users globally.

In this role you will

• Creating digital experiences that are safe and empowering for young audiences
• Designing and implementing features and services for one of Super
  Awesome’s key products
• Maintaining high levels of code quality, test coverage, and operational visibility
• Building
  - heavy systems while contributing across the full stack where needed
• Ensuring system performance, reliability, and scalability as usage grows
• Helping break complex problems into simple, maintainable deliverables
• Supporting the product in production, including participation in our
  - call rota
• Writing clear technical documentation and participating in architecture reviews
• Championing Dev
  Ops culture—treating infrastructure as code and owning deployments

Our Stack

• Languages: Node. js, Type
  Script, (and increasingly Python)
• Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes
• Data & Messaging: Kafka, Postgres,
  - driven architectures, Databricks (DBX)

What We’re Looking For

You don’t need to tick every box to apply, but here’s what we value:

• Proven experience building
  - throughput web systems or distributed services
• Strong programming skills in Node. js/Type
  Script, with working knowledge of Python
• Experience working across the full software lifecycle—from design to deployment and support
• Familiarity with Dev
  Ops practices and
  - native infrastructure (CI/CD, Terraform, etc. )
• Awareness of security best practices in cloud environments
• A pragmatic approach to testing, quality, and documentation
• Great communication and collaboration skills in
  - functional teams

Nice to have

We’d love to hear about any of the following:

• Engineering for Scale & Resilience
• Distributed Systems & Microservices: Experience designing resilient
  - native systems, strong understanding of
  -
  - service communication patterns and API lifecycle
• Automation & Infrastructure: Deep knowledge of Terraform, AWS, and infrastructure automation best practices
• Observability & Reliability: Familiarity with distributed tracing, Grafana, alerting/monitoring strategies, and incident response tooling
• AI/ML & Data Platforms
• Experience with Databricks, ML workflows, or operationalizing data science
• Comfort with stream processing,
  - driven data pipelines, or ingestion framework
• Data Engineering
• Proficient in modelling for distributed data systems, data pipeline orchestration, and data quality/governance tooling
• Product/UX Alignment for Internal Tools
• Experience building internal tools with a
  - centered mindset
• Comfortable collaborating with product and design teams to improve internal UX
• Strong documentation and
  - sharing practices

Why Super
Awesome?

Super
Awesome powers the youth digital ecosystem, combining proprietary ad and gaming products, audience insights, and compliance capabilities to power a better internet for the next generation.

Working with us means:

• Making a
  - world impact on half a billion users every month
• Shaping technology at the intersection of law, policy, and innovation
• Joining a team that values curiosity, creativity, and continuous learning
• Being part of the #SAFam—a supportive, inclusive, and diverse community