Lead Backend Engineer - AI-Driven & Remote

Zego; Portugal; Presencial; EUR 70 000 - 90 000; Tempo integral

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Remote with quarterly visits

Resumo da oferta

Zego is hiring a senior backend engineering leader to guide engineers and own the Python microservices powering our insurance platform. You will architect scalable systems, drive cross-team decisions, and deliver large initiatives end-to-end with a focus on simplicity, reliability, and measurable business impact.

You will mentor engineers, improve CI/CD pipelines and incident response, while shaping the backend strategy for a fast-moving AI-enabled tech stack.

Qualificações

• Hands-on experience building cloud-native microservices, Python preferred.
• Experience designing distributed architectures with performance tuning and observability.
• Ability to communicate clearly and mentor engineers.

Responsabilidades

• Lead several engineers within a team or workstream, guiding their work towards user value and business opportunity.
• Design, build and own the Python microservices that power our insurance platform, secure, observable and built for scale.
• Drive architectural discussions and decisions across multiple teams, shaping the future of our backend systems.
• Deliver large, complex technical initiatives end to end, with clarity on scope, sequencing and impact.
• Raise the bar on engineering excellence, testability, reliability, scalability and clean code.
• Coach and mentor engineers, sharing context, feedback and support so the whole team levels up.
• Improve how the team works, from CI/CD pipelines to incident response, investigating root causes and fixing them pragmatically.

Conhecimentos

Backend leadership

Backend architecture

Team leadership

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Ferramentas

Python

Cloud-native

Observability

CI/CD

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Zego is hiring a senior backend engineering leader to guide engineers and own the Python microservices powering our insurance platform. You will architect scalable systems, drive cross-team decisions, and deliver large initiatives end-to-end with a focus on simplicity, reliability, and measurable business impact.

You will mentor engineers, improve CI/CD pipelines and incident response, while shaping the backend strategy for a fast-moving AI-enabled tech stack.