AI-First Backend Engineer — Remote with Equity

Zego; Lisboa; Presencial; EUR 50 000 - 80 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Market-competitive salary

Annual performance bonus

Share options

Private medical insurance

Generous holiday, up to 90 days a year

€1,000 a year to spend on getting to/…

Resumo da oferta

Zego is a Portugal-based employer embracing remote work with quarterly visits to our London office. The company offers a compensation package of €50,000 to €80,000 base plus bonus, share options and benefits.

This role focuses on building backend microservices in Python, delivering real business value and shaping scalable architectures. You will work with a modern stack and AI-enabled development practices, contributing to a fast-moving, high-collaboration product team across Europe.

Qualificações

• Backend and cloud microservices - A proven track record building and maintaining backend systems and cloud microservices. Our stack is Python, but strong experience in another language works too!
• Strong fundamentals - Data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming, applied rather than recited
• Delivery discipline - Comfortable with testing frameworks, debugging, refactoring, version control and CI/CD pipelines
• Data fluency - A working understanding of SQL and document databases
• Ownership at pace - You work independently, take business and product ownership and keep moving when requirements evolve
• You work AI‑first - You will use AI daily here, and we mean daily. You do not need to arrive an expert, but you do need to arrive curious, experiment fast, and take ownership of getting good quickly. People who wait to be trained will find this uncomfortable

Responsabilidades

• Solve complex problems with software that is reliable, well tested, resilient and observable
• Develop, test, deploy and own Python microservices that deliver real business and user value
• Shape architectural decisions so systems scale without becoming harder to change
• Lift code quality across the team through reviews and clear, well-documented code
• Ship outcomes as part of a product team, working closely with engineers and Product Managers
• Improve how the team works and influence the direction of its strategy

Conhecimentos

Backend microservices

Cloud fundamentals

Delivery discipline

Data fluency

Ownership at pace

AI-first mindset

Ferramentas

Python

SQL

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Zego is a Portugal-based employer embracing remote work with quarterly visits to our London office. The company offers a compensation package of €50,000 to €80,000 base plus bonus, share options and benefits.

This role focuses on building backend microservices in Python, delivering real business value and shaping scalable architectures. You will work with a modern stack and AI-enabled development practices, contributing to a fast-moving, high-collaboration product team across Europe.