Senior Back-End Engineer Porto

Senior Back-End Engineer
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Pixelmatters is a digital product studio. We’re a team of strategists, designers and engineers creating
- quality digital products.

Our mission is to empower businesses to achieve their full potential by creating
- quality digital products while fostering great relationships along the way. We envision a world where great user experience is the norm, not the exception, inspiring businesses and people to be at their best.

We're looking for you, a meticulous, curious and adaptable senior Back-End Engineer, who has the ability to develop scalable and efficient software solutions, ensuring robust functionality and performance. In addition, you are a collaborative team player, actively supporting and promoting knowledge sharing as part of your approach.

Your role will focus on designing, testing, and implementing
- end systems, playing a key role in building secure,
- performance applications. You will be involved in all stages of
- end development, from database design to API implementation and system architecture. For this reason, it’s expected that you are comfortable working with
- side languages, frameworks, and cloud infrastructure.

Some of your
-
- day tasks will include developing and optimizing APIs, designing and maintaining databases, managing infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, writing tests, and ensuring system scalability and reliability.

1. At least 5 years of experience as a Back-End Engineer.
2. Expertise in one or more modern web frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails, Django, or Nest
   JS, with the ability to lead design and architecture decisions.
3. Strong database knowledge, including schema design, performance optimization, and data integrity practices using Postgre
   SQL, My
   SQL, Mongo
   DB, and/or Redis.
4. Solid experience designing and building RESTful and/or Graph
   QL APIs, and integration with
   - party services.
5. Familiar with version control systems such as Git.
6. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools, including the ability to design and maintain efficient deployment workflows.
7. Proficiency with unit, integration and e2e tests.
8. Excellent understanding of English and Portuguese (written and spoken).

It would be awesome if you also have. . .

1. Ability to design and implement applications' architectures in a cloud infrastructure service. GCP and AWS as a plus.
2. Ability to build and run Docker containers.
3. Ability to mentor junior developers and uphold best practices within the engineering team.

What we offer:

1. Quality-driven, inspiring, and collaborative work environment.
2. Competitive salary and benefits, including health insurance.
3. We have an office located at Porto’s downtown, while continuing to back our “Remote as default, Office as an option” policy.

Compensation

1. The salary range from this role is between €43, 626 to €61, 126 annual gross which includes meal, vacation, and Xmas allowance.