Software Engineer (Python or Go) Lisboa

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Our Unbabel division is seeking a motivated Software Engineer to join our team, as we expand our ability to deliver seamless, scalable
- platform translation capabilities to our enterprise partners. You’ll drive forward the development, maintenance, and expansion of core backend services that power smooth, intelligent language solutions.

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement reliable architectures and core services.
• Build, maintain, and optimize codebases in a testable and efficient manner.
• Develop, optimize, and support critical services, infrastructure, and applications in production environments.
• Help evolve our architecture for scale, resilience, and performance.
• Break down complex problems and prioritize technical initiatives with product and engineering teams.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, automation, code quality, and architectural best practices.
• Partner with
  - functional stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with rapidly changing business and technical needs.
• Respond collaboratively to platform and service challenges, employing rapid troubleshooting and prototyping when necessary.

Must Haves

• 2+ years of backend engineering experience with Python or Go
• Experience building APIs or system integrations (REST and/or g
  RPC)
• Familiarity with relational and
  - relational databases (e. g. Postgres, Mongo
  DB)
• Proven ability to write clean,
  - tested code; competence in test automation; familiarity with secure and maintainable architecture
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Collaborative mindset with attention to detail, proactive attitude, and eagerness to learn

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Python frameworks (Fast
  API, Flask).
• Contributions to ML/NLP projects or personal projects demonstrating AI engineering capabilities.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and Kubernetes.
• Past work building, operating, and monitoring production services.
• Dev
  Ops exposure, especially in AWS, CI/CD, and
  -
  - code (Terraform).
• Hands-on experience instrumenting metrics and alerts (Prometheus, Grafana, Pager
  Duty).

Benefits

• A significant role in a dynamic,
  - functioning software development division with the world's largest provider of language services and technology solutions
• An opportunity to have real impact in product direction and development
• Advantages of working in a team of subject matter experts that develop
  - edge web applications
• Significant room for growth
• Great financial rewards

About Unbabel

The company’s language operations platform blends advanced artificial intelligence with human editors, for fast, efficient,
- quality translations that get smarter over time. Unbabel integrates seamlessly in any channel so that agents can deliver consistent multilingual support from within their existing workflows. Making it easy for enterprises to grow into new markets and build seamless customer experiences in every corner of the world.

Based in San Francisco, California, Unbabel works with leading customer support and marketing teams at brands such as Facebook, Microsoft, Booking, and Under Armour to communicate effortlessly with customers around the world, no matter what language they speak.