Senior Software Engineer (React/Node)

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you will be an integral part of a client team tasked with building innovative products. We are looking for someone who is curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic about software development. You should be proficient in problem-solving and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. Effective communication and teamwork are essential as you will be working in a fast-paced engineering environment to achieve outstanding results and deliver exciting projects.

Responsibilities

• Crafting Excellent Products: As a Full Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for building new features that meet the needs of our clients' customers and improving their digital platforms.
• Continuous Delivery: You will be continuously delivering changes to products as our client moves to a full CI/CD model.
• Collaboration: Work closely with your team, regularly collaborating on engineering initiatives to continually push yourselves to be better.
• Show and Tell: Participate in regular show and tells to promote your work to both your department and the wider company.
• Client Engagement: Join our clients' internal events, including meeting external speakers and attending social events.

Required Skills and Experience

• Proven commercial experience with React and Node.js.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, and ES6.
• Experience with GraphQL.
• Familiarity with distributed version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Experience with both relational and schema-less databases.
• Strong focus on continuous integration and delivery.
• Strong focus on Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience in building high-performance and scalable applications.
• Good understanding of the design and implementation of RESTful web services.
• Familiarity with performance monitoring tools.
• Ability to maintain composure when debugging production issues.

About You

• Self-motivated, proactive, and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself.
• A good communicator, both in writing and verbally, able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language.
• Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs.
• Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Analytical and problem-solving oriented.
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.
• Legally able to live and work in Portugal.

Recruitment Process

1. First Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins).
2. Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30).

Our Values

• Growing every day.
• Including everyone.
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics.
• Inspiring solutions.
• Winning together.

YLD is an equal-opportunity employer and values diversity of all kinds. We offer a remote-first working environment, meaning that flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.