Senior | Staff Software Engineer - .NET (Hybrid Remote - Lisbon)

Main tasks and responsibilities

• Being comfortable with experimentation and willing to approach a problem in multiple ways via rapid prototyping.

• Writing clean, maintainable code using .NET C#, along with other modern tools such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch.

• Regularly delivering high-quality, working software as part of the team.

• Building a deep, expert understanding of the team’s codebase.

• Providing highly insightful, comprehensive code reviews with an eye towards bigger-picture concepts.

• Ensuring documentation exists for all critical systems and writing technical guides used widely by other Engineers.

• Monitoring dashboards/alerts, and responding to incidents with the appropriate level of urgency.

• Driving technical decision making, expertly identifying trade-offs and risks, and considering organization-wide technical alignment.

• Effectively diagnosing the root cause of complex bugs and providing a fix along with automated regression tests.

• Leading specifications and refinement of technical improvements.

• Mentoring, coaching, and empowering other engineers by sharing knowledge through demos and presentations.

Key requirements

Education Level: Bachelor’s (or equivalent) degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Experience: At least 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, working with .NET C#.

Required Technical Skills:

• Understanding of how to apply microservice architectures successfully, with knowledge of multiple patterns and techniques, and the tradeoffs of each.

• Experience with Front-End technologies like Angular is a plus.

• Experience with event-driven architectures and event streaming/messaging tools like Kafka (preferred), Pulsar, RabbitMQ, etc.

• Experience using databases - PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc., understanding which database is best deployed, depending on the use case.

• Accustomed to working in environments with CI/CD pipelines used for deploying applications.

• Proven ability to identify opportunities for best practice improvements within the team and share knowledge in order to address them.

• Ability to tackle highly complex technical problems independently.

• Track record of quickly learning about complex architectures and codebases.

• Experience in working in an Agile environment.

• Technical leadership experience, including mentoring other Engineers.

Other Required Skills:

• Fluency in English; Portuguese is a plus.

• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate clearly and effectively, adjusting style depending on the audience.