Senior Backend Engineer: AI Workflows & Scalable APIs

Acolad group; Lisboa; Presencial; EUR 65 000 - 90 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Acolad is seeking a senior backend engineer to maintain and evolve a production platform for AI-powered language services. You will work on backend services, async workflows, API integrations, and Redis-based state management in a real production environment.

You may mentor one or two engineers, contribute to code reviews, and help drive technical leadership while delivering reliable backend systems with observability and scalable data outputs.

Qualificações

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in production systems.
• Strong experience with backend APIs and service-to-service integrations.
• Experience with async processing, message queues, background jobs, retries, and idempotency.
• Good understanding of Redis, PostgreSQL, and backend state management.
• Strong SQL skills and ability to work with structured operational data.
• Experience with AWS, Docker and basic Kubernetes concepts.
• Ability to debug production issues across logs, APIs, queues, and databases.
• Practical and growth mindset: you can improve existing systems without over-engineering.

Responsabilidades

• Build, maintain, and improve backend services in a production environment.
• Work on async workflows using message queues, background jobs, retries, and failure handling.
• Integrate with external APIs, including AI/LLM services, translation platforms, workflow tools, and internal systems.
• Help manage workflow state across Redis, PostgreSQL, and related backend components.
• Contribute to structured data outputs used for reporting and analytics, including Snowflake where relevant.
• Improve reliability through better logging, monitoring, error handling, and operational visibility.
• Support deployment and release processes together with the wider engineering team.
• Refactor fragile areas, reduce technical debt, and improve test coverage where it matters.
• Review code and support one or two engineers on technical topics.
• Translate business requirements into clear engineering tasks with support from product and technical leadership.

Conhecimentos

Backend APIs

Async processing

Redis

PostgreSQL

SQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Debugging

Observability

Ferramentas

RabbitMQ

Kafka

SQS

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

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Descrição da oferta de emprego

Acolad is seeking a senior backend engineer to maintain and evolve a production platform for AI-powered language services. You will work on backend services, async workflows, API integrations, and Redis-based state management in a real production environment.

You may mentor one or two engineers, contribute to code reviews, and help drive technical leadership while delivering reliable backend systems with observability and scalable data outputs.