Senior Backend Engineer for Analytics APIs (Remote Portugal)

Intermedia Intelligent Communications; Portugal; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermedia is seeking a Senior Software Engineer Backend to design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering analytics, dashboards, and visualizations. You will transform complex product and customer data into reliable, performant information to help users understand trends and opportunities.

You will collaborate with frontend, AI/ML, data, product, and UX teams, tackling distributed systems challenges and shaping how customers interact with analytics across Intermedia's products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated experience developing backend applications and services.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend programming languages and associated frameworks.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, microservices, or other service-oriented applications.
• Solid understanding of software design principles, data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power analytics, dashboards and visualizations.
• Build services that process, aggregate, enrich, and serve structured and unstructured data for interactive analytics experiences.
• Develop APIs and data services optimized for efficient consumption by dashboards, visualizations, reporting interfaces, and other customer-facing experiences.
• Build backend capabilities that enable users to explore, filter, compare, drill into, and understand complex datasets and insights.
• Partner closely with frontend engineers and UX teams to define service interfaces and data structures that enable intuitive, responsive visualization experiences.
• Work with data engineers to establish reliable data flows between source systems, analytical platforms, visualization services, and downstream applications.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to translate customer and business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Contribute to technical design decisions for backend services, analytics APIs, data models, processing workflows, caching strategies, and integrations.
• Design systems that deliver timely and accurate analytics while maintaining appropriate data quality and consistency.
• Optimize data access, aggregation, and service performance to support responsive and interactive customer experiences.
• Design backend capabilities that can support both predefined analytics experiences and more dynamic exploration of data.
• Analyze and improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability of analytics services.
• Write high-quality, readable, testable code that follows established engineering standards and best practices.
• Participate in code and design reviews and contribute to strong engineering and quality practices across the team.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across backend services, analytics workflows, data processing, and frontend integrations.
• Build appropriate monitoring, logging, testing, and observability into production services.
• Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to support reliable deployment and operation of Analytics Visualizations services.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and engineering approaches related to analytics, data visualization, data processing, and backend development.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives that enhance product performance, reliability, customer experience, and engineering efficiency.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Intermedia is seeking a Senior Software Engineer Backend to design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering analytics, dashboards, and visualizations. You will transform complex product and customer data into reliable, performant information to help users understand trends and opportunities.

You will collaborate with frontend, AI/ML, data, product, and UX teams, tackling distributed systems challenges and shaping how customers interact with analytics across Intermedia's products.