Onsite Release Engineer — Lisbon (Relocation Support)

Air Apps; Dublin; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Apple hardware ecosystem for work

Annual Bonus

Top-tier Health and Life Insurance

Transportation Budget

Coverflex benefits package for meals,

Childcare support

Air Conference

Pension Fund

Urban Sports Club

Meals 100% free at the hub

Job summary

Air Apps, a Lisbon-based AI-powered PRP startup, is hiring a Release Engineer to own the release process from development to deployment. You will manage versioning, build management, and deployment workflows across environments, collaborating with development, QA, DevOps, and product teams.

As a fully onsite role at our Lisbon hub, you will improve release pipelines, implement feature flagging, and ensure high standards for security, performance, and quality in every release.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in release engineering, DevOps, or build/release management.
• Experience with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, ArgoCD.
• Strong Git version control and GitFlow/trunk-based branching.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Scripting skills: Bash, Python, or PowerShell for automation.
• Familiarity with mobile/web build systems (Xcode, Gradle, Webpack).
• Strong troubleshooting and risk assessment/ rollback strategies.
• Experience in agile development with fast-paced releases.
• Excellent cross-team collaboration and communication.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize release pipelines to ensure smooth deployment of software updates.
• Define and maintain versioning strategies, ensuring consistency across multiple environments.
• Coordinate with engineering, QA, and DevOps teams to ensure timely and stable releases.
• Automate and improve build, release, and deployment processes for efficiency and reliability.
• Monitor and troubleshoot release-related issues, ensuring minimal downtime.
• Maintain documentation for release workflows, rollback plans, and deployment strategies.
• Ensure compliance with security, performance, and quality standards in all releases.
• Work with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI) to manage automated releases.
• Implement and maintain feature flagging strategies to enable controlled rollouts.
• Analyze release performance and drive continuous improvements in deployment processes.

Skills

Release engineering

CI/CD tooling

Git version control

Docker Kubernetes

Scripting (Bash/Python/PowerShell)

Mobile/web build systems

Agile development

Team collaboration

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

CircleCI

ArgoCD

Job description

Air Apps, a Lisbon-based AI-powered PRP startup, is hiring a Release Engineer to own the release process from development to deployment. You will manage versioning, build management, and deployment workflows across environments, collaborating with development, QA, DevOps, and product teams.

As a fully onsite role at our Lisbon hub, you will improve release pipelines, implement feature flagging, and ensure high standards for security, performance, and quality in every release.