Lead Backend Software Engineer

At OutSystems (Contractor), in Lisbon, Portugal
Expires at: 2024-11-19
Remote policy: Full remote

There are NO limits to your career: come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems!
Location: Remote for candidates based in Portugal
English Level: Fluent (at least B2)
Availability: Immediately or 30 days
Duration: 7 months (extendable with possible internalization)

What will you be doing?

• Lead the design and development of solutions within the team by following development processes (like TDD, BDD, and code reviews);
• Contribute to the team's overall understanding of the problem/solution and implementation details;
• Monitor team development and intervene when necessary to ensure the team achieves quality outcomes;
• Contribute to alignment with other teams when dependencies exist;
• Optimizing the performance of the platform component you’ll work on;
• Produce and test code in short cycles with a high degree of automation;
• Gather feedback from end-users and adapt your solutions;
• Focus on developing maintainable solutions that scale to thousands of users;
• Knowledge of product development best practices, continuous delivery, and testing;
• Experience in designing and communicating high-level functional designs and solutions.

Main requirements

• Bachelor or Master's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or similar. If you do not have one but you are really good (and can show it), we still want to hear from you;
• More than 8 years of software development experience;
• Experience in mentoring younger software engineers;
• Solid knowledge of software engineering principles, algorithms, data structures, and Object-Oriented Design;
• Excellent coding skills in one or more of these technologies is a plus: C#, Java, Python;
• Good communication skills and fluency in English;
• Experience in solving and troubleshooting highly complex technical problems;
• Drive to innovate and bring development best practices into your team;
• Drive to understand what are the upcoming technologies and frameworks.

Join us in disrupting the status quo of the low-code market, we give you the power to "Ask Why", you give our customers the power to innovate through software!

Nice to have

• AWS, Kubernetes, Microservices Development experience (valued);
• Relational Database experience: SQLServer, Oracle (valued);
• Continuous delivery and testing techniques (valued);