Principal Backend Engineer Lisboa

Principal Backend Engineer
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Randstad Digital is recruiting a Principal Backend Engineer for an international client with offices in Lisbon.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Innovate: Collaborate with our agile team to architect scalable, secure, and
  - performance backend systems that power our
  - edge solutions.
• Craft High-Performance Code: Develop clean and efficient code that drives the heart of our technology stack.
• Mentorship: Inspire and mentor fellow tech leaders, fostering skill growth and best practices.
• Optimize Performance: Lead the charge in identifying and enhancing system performance for seamless user experiences.
• Seamless Integration: Work closely with
  - functional teams and stakeholders to ensure smooth system integration.
• Stay Ahead: Stay ahead of the tech curve, applying emerging technologies to enhance our capabilities and disrupt the industry.
• Establish Company Best Practices: Collaborate closely with PE I to set company best practices and lay the foundations for developing new software.
• Strategic Technical Roadmap: Define and focus on the
  - wide technical roadmap, balancing it with the more immediate business needs of the product roadmap.

Core Skills

• Deep knowledge of the Microsoft. NET platform and its ecosystem or willingness to learn.
• Proven experience with multiple programming languages, designing, implementing, and scaling performant, distributed systems and microservice architectures.
• Experience with message brokers such as Kafka or Rabbit
  MQ and messaging patterns.
• Experience with Dev
  Ops practices and containerization technologies.
• Ability to work autonomously on complex tasks, considering performance, security, observability, and code quality.
• Passion for monitoring and troubleshooting production systems with
  - driven
  - making skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for diverse audiences, including stakeholders and technical teams.
• Background in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, preferably with a relevant Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Exceptional fluency in English.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Meal allowance
• Health insurance
• Annual bonus
• Other benefits