Jobs in Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain

Portside is a leading provider of modern software solutions for the global aviation industry. As a fast-growing SaaS company, we operate across three key verticals: business aviation, regional commercial aviation, and aircraft leasing & finance. With nearly 300 team members spread across five continents, we support over 1,000 enterprise customers, helping them streamline and manage all aspects of their day-to-day operations.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Python engineer to join our business aviation team. In this role, you will work at the intersection of technology, people, and processes to develop and support integrations of aviation products, optimize system performance, and enhance the speed and quality of software development.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement software solutions using the company’s technology stack, following industry best practices like SOLID, DRY, KISS, IoC, design patterns, etc.
• Design database schemas, manage database operations with SQL, ensuring efficient database reliability
• Write unit and integration tests, collaborate with management on managing the test strategy and overall quality of the company products
• Adhere to the company’s code and development standards
• Manage technical debt, identify technological risks, and collaborate with the management and development team on risk mitigation strategies
• Refactor existing software components in order to eliminate technical debt and improve application extensibility
• Estimate software development work, including major long-term projects and large features
• Deploy software releases to production and other environments
• Use and maintain CI/CD pipelines in coordination with the DevOps team
• Use and maintain AWS services in coordination with the DevOps team
• Conduct code reviews
• Troubleshoot production issues

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Python and Django software development experience, ideally in backend or integration-heavy environments
• Experience in refactoring code, a solid understanding of the refactoring methodologies, and code smells
• Experience in maintaining adherence to coding standards and development best practices
• Experience in conducting code reviews
• Experience in writing automated tests, measuring test coverage, and defining test automation strategies
• Experience in working with CI/CD pipelines, good understanding of SDLC best practices and deployment procedures, strong knowledge of Git
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes is a plus
• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience designing complex database solutions, experience working with ORMs and database migrations
• Strong and consistent understanding of GraphQL and REST API
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical people, as well as the ability to explain business requirements to other engineers
• Ability to estimate engineering work, identify risks and strategies for their mitigation
• Experience in mentoring software engineers is a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Practical and results-oriented engineering mindset
• Interest in business aviation and becoming a domain expert in the field

• Fully remote work
• Generous time off policy
• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
• Dynamic, collaborative, and fast-growing work environment.