Backend Staff Engineer

login.works; Alvalade; Presencial; EUR 90 000 - 150 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Hybrid role

Competitive compensation

Resumo da oferta

login.works is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Lisbon (Hybrid) to lead development of modern applications, mentor peers, and raise engineering standards across teams. You will shape technical direction, drive key architectural decisions, and contribute to production reliability with a focus on code quality and best practices.

The role requires 10+ years of hands-on .NET C# experience, strong leadership, and experience with event-driven architectures.

Qualificações

• 10+ years hands-on with .NET C# and expert-level experience.
• Technical leadership experience (3+ years) mentoring engineers.
• Proven ability to learn complex architectures quickly and drive complex decisions.

Responsabilidades

• Write clean, maintainable .NET C# code and contribute to high-quality software delivery.
• Provide technical leadership, drive architectural decisions, and coordinate changes across teams.
• Help define SRE standards and contribute to reliable production systems.
• Mentor engineers and share knowledge through demos and presentations.

Conhecimentos

C#/.NET

Tech leadership

Mentoring

Agile

Communication

Formação académica

Bachelor's in CS

Ferramentas

Kafka

ElasticSearch

Docker

Kubernetes

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Our client is the global leader in regulatory and sustainability intelligence, helping the world's largest companies navigate Environment, Health & Safety, Corporate Sustainability, and Product Compliance.

They serve a global customer base that includes many Fortune 500 companies, and they are on a clear path toward SaaS excellence. Engineering is central to that journey, and they invest in their people, trusting them to deliver and backing their growth.

This is a Staff Software Engineer seat on a product engineering team. You will build modern applications that deliver real value with quality, and play a pivotal role in shaping the technology and raising the engineering bar, championing best practices, mentoring engineers, and driving technical decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

Engineering & code quality

• Write clean, maintainable code in .NET C# that sets the standard for other engineers on your team, alongside modern tools such as Kafka and ElasticSearch.

• Regularly deliver high-quality, working software as part of a software development team.

• Build a deep, expert understanding of your team's codebase.

• Provide highly insightful, comprehensive code reviews with an eye toward bigger-picture concepts.

Technical leadership & decision-making

• Drive technical decision-making at a high level, expertly identifying trade-offs and risks and considering organisation-wide technical alignment.

• Pre-empt technical risks, raise awareness, and coordinate mitigation.

• Help provide direction and vision to technical improvements, and drive change across multiple teams.

Reliability & operations

• Help define SRE standards so teams can effectively monitor their applications in production and respond quickly to incidents.

• Effectively diagnose the root cause of complex bugs using deep knowledge of both code and infrastructure, and provide a fix along with an automated regression test.

Documentation & mentorship

• Ensure documentation exists for all critical systems, and write technical guides used widely by other engineers.

• Mentor, coach, and empower other engineers. Share knowledge regularly through demos and presentations.

Profile Sought

Experience

• At least 10 years working hands‑on with .NET C#, with expert-level experience and expertise.

• Technical leadership experience (3+ years), including mentoring other engineers, e.g. leading projects or initiatives, leading a team, or organizing engineering community events.

• A track record of quickly learning complex architectures and codebases and becoming an expert, and of tackling the most complex technical problems independently.

• Evidence of driving complex technical decisions involving multiple stakeholders in critical areas.

• Experience working in an Agile environment.

Technical skills

• Expert C#.NET experience and expertise (10+ years).

• Deep understanding of how to apply microservice architectures successfully, with expert knowledge of many patterns and techniques and their trade‑offs, in more than one context.

• Significant (2+ years) experience with event‑driven architectures and event streaming / messaging tools such as Kafka (preferred), Pulsar, or RabbitMQ.

• Experience with NoSQL databases, ElasticSearch (preferred), DynamoDB, MongoDB, or Redis, and a clear sense of which database best fits each use case.

• Strong knowledge of deploying and scaling cloud applications, including containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).

• Proven ability to identify opportunities for best‑practice improvements and drive change across multiple teams.

Languages

• Fluent English required.

Education

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field.

Soft skills

• Excellent communicator: able to communicate clearly and effectively, adjusting style to the audience.

• Works effectively as part of a team, contributing to the dynamic and resolving conflicts constructively.

• Adapts quickly and embraces change; a champion of continuous improvement.

• Shows initiative in tackling problems, executes pragmatically, and makes data‑driven decisions.

Benefits & Culture

• Tech stack: .NET C#, microservices, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud.

• Build modern applications at global scale for a customer base that includes many Fortune 500 companies.

• A company that prioritizes its people, trusts them to deliver, and invests in their growth.

• Real influence: set the engineering standard, mentor other engineers, and shape technical direction across teams.

• Competitive compensation, benefits, and flexibility.

• Hybrid role.

Department: Engineering

Location: Lisbon (Hybrid)

Start date: ASAP