Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer
Estoril
Estoril, Lisboa, Portugal

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Location
Lisbon (preferred) / Europe (hybrid or remote for strong candidates)Type
Full-time
About Stokedge
Stokedge is a technology company focused on building agentic software systems that help organizations automate complex work and operate more efficiently at scale. We develop
- based solutions for sales, customer service, and operations management, combining solid software engineering with applied AI. We work with clients across a wide range of industries — real estate, professional services, retail, financial services, hospitality, and healthcare. We also develop custom software solutions for our clients, that replace manual,
- based processes or modernize legacy systems into reliable, observable, and maintainable agentic solutions. Our culture emphasizes engineering discipline, pragmatic design, and
- grade reliability over hype, with a strong focus on building systems that can evolve over time. About the role
We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer (5+ years) who enjoys building reliable systems, thinking deeply about design, and helping others grow. We’re looking for someone with solid
- end development experience, who understands the requirements of modern
- end development. You’ll help build and scale software products with an emphasis on agentic systems, distributed services, and
- world production reliability. You’ll also support and guide junior engineers, promoting software development design patterns and other best practices, raising engineering standards and delivery quality. What you’ll
- Design and build backend services primarily in C#/. NET, with clean APIs and strong engineering
- Build and evolve agentic systems (tooling, orchestration, workflow execution, guardrails, observability)- Own quality: testing strategy, CI/CD practices, code reviews, and release
- Own
- sized systems or components
-
- end, from design through production
- Mentor/coach junior developers by promoting software engineering best
- Collaborate with product and stakeholders to translate business needs into pragmatic technical execution
What we’re looking for (must-have)- 5+ years of professional software engineering
- Strong C#/. NET background (mandatory)- Full-stack capability with a backend bias and a strong understanding of modern
- end
- Experience coaching/mentoring junior engineers (software development standards, coding best practices)- Strong knowledge of design patterns and software engineering
- Comfortable with testing (unit/integration/e2e), and debugging complex distributed
- Experience working with distributed systems and concurrency (async patterns, race conditions, reliability)- Strong communication skills and a “raise-the-bar” mindset
Nice to
- Python experience (especially for tooling, data workflows, or AI/agent integration)- Hands-on experience building agentic systems (agents, tool calling, orchestration, workflows,
- step reasoning)- Observability/production readiness: tracing, metrics, structured logging, incident response
- Cloud and modern deployment practices (containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code)- Debug and profile distributed, concurrent systems (latency, throughput, contention, async issues, memory/CPU)What success looks
- You ship
- grade features with measurable reliability and
- Junior team members become noticeably more effective, disciplined, and
- The codebase becomes easier to maintain and grow: cleaner code, better tests, clearer standards
How to apply
Send your CV/Linked
In plus a short note covering:
- The most complex distributed/concurrent issue you debugged, and how you diagnosed
- A time you helped a junior team member produce high quality outputs (what you changed and what improved)- Your strongest C#/. NET project and your role in software engineering decisions
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