Senior Backend Orchestrator Engineer — Remote

Jobgether; Portugal; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Equity

Paid time off - 25 days

Coworking access

Team retreat

Equipment

Home office support

Learning budget

Private medical insurance

Location-based benefits

Collaborative onboarding

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer specialized in orchestration, based in Portugal, to design and implement core services for distributed systems and payments workflows. You will own important technical decisions, drive scalability, reliability, and long-term growth while collaborating with a globally distributed team.

The role emphasizes code quality, testing, documentation, and continuous improvement in a product-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Strong backend fundamentals spanning design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Experience designing backend services for distributed systems and high-performance workloads.
• Familiarity with building developer frameworks, integration tools, and workflows for integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain core backend services for high-performance distributed systems.
• Own key architectural decisions balancing scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Build and optimize backend architecture to support evolving product requirements and business growth.
• Write clean, tested code following engineering standards (TDD/BDD where appropriate).
• Develop and improve frameworks, tools, and workflows for customers and third‑party developers.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Code reviews

TDD

BDD

Python

Documentation

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer specialized in orchestration, based in Portugal, to design and implement core services for distributed systems and payments workflows. You will own important technical decisions, drive scalability, reliability, and long-term growth while collaborating with a globally distributed team.

The role emphasizes code quality, testing, documentation, and continuous improvement in a product-driven environment.