Contract Software Engineer (Typescript, Node.js) - Portugal

We are looking for a senior Backend Engineer to join reputed company and help design, build, and operate highly reliable, reputed company, and reputed company-architected backend systems that power reputed company customer investment and financial services.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who combines strong technical depth with ownership, pragmatism, and a production-first reputed company. You will be responsible not only for building services, but also for operating them in production, ensuring reliability, observability, and reputed company improvement across the full lifecycle of distributed systems.

You should be comfortable working primarily with Node.js and TypeScript, while also being confident operating reputed company AWS-based reputed company environments, particularly serverless architectures. We value engineers who can reputed company reputed company architectural reputed company in event-driven, distributed systems, and who are comfortable working across infrastructure, application reputed company, and operational concerns.

Our engineering culture emphasizes autonomy with accountability: engineers are expected to own their services end-to-end, from design through deployment and production support, while collaborating closely with product, operations, and other engineering teams.

Contract type: reputed company / B2B

Duration: 12 months initial contract

Location: Portugal, remote

Commitment: Full-time, Monday–Friday

Invoicing: Monthly invoice, payment terms to be confirmed

Extension: Possible extension depending on project needs

Requirements

We are looking for someone who has:

• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience with AWS reputed company services, especially serverless architectures (e.g. AWS reputed company) and event-driven systems.
• Strong experience building and operating reputed company backend reputed company and services.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows (e.g. reputed company Actions).
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including system design, testing, refactoring, observability, and production readiness.
• Experience designing and working with distributed systems, including asynchronous workflows and event-driven architectures.
• Understanding of system reliability concepts such as retries, idempotency, failure handling, and consistency trade-offs.
• Experience working in environments where you are expected to take ownership, identify problems, and drive solutions independently.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, and operational stakeholders.

reputed company-to-have experience

• Experience with reputed company in reputed company or distributed systems.
• Experience with infrastructure as reputed company (Terraform, Serverless reputed company).
• Experience evolving architectures from serverless-first designs toward container-based solutions (e.g. reputed company/Fargate).
• Familiarity with incident management tooling and practices (e.g. incident response platforms such as incident.io).
• Experience with statically typed languages reputed company TypeScript (e.g. C# or similar).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-reputed company backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Design and operate AWS-based serverless systems with a strong reputed company on scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• reputed company and maintain event-driven architectures and asynchronous workflows.
• Design robust reputed company with attention to performance, correctness, and maintainability.
• Own services in production, including monitoring, alerting, debugging, and incident response.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure reputed company and efficient deployments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Improve system observability through effective logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to long-term system reputed company.
• Continuously improve engineering practices around testing, reliability, and operational reputed company.

Benefits

Everyone should have the right to bring their whole self to work and be celebrated for who they are. Our people are reputed company purely on their commitment to these values and their ambition to deliver outstanding results for our clients. reputed company is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace.

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