Principal Backend Engineer

TL;DR

Principal Backend Engineer: Leading development on an organisational level, designing, implementing, and operating customer experiences, complex workflows, and operational task management applications with an accent on multiple order of magnitude growth. Focus on solving highly complex challenges with simple solutions and continually evolving our engineering practices using data insights and industry knowledge.

Location: Hybrid in Porto

Company

hirify.global is a payment and software service provider, headquartered in London serving small, local businesses across Europe.

What you will do

• Take responsibility for the success of the most important projects in the company.
• Solve highly complex challenges with simple solutions, often where neither the business problem nor technology strategy is well defined.
• Deliver code contributions that demonstrate best practices and set a high quality bar on a regular basis.
• Work with a community of Principal Engineers and tech leaders to be a key influencer for strategic tech decisions.
• Continually evolve our engineering practices using data insights and industry knowledge.
• Lead design reviews for complex software projects and/or critical features.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to solve problems in code using data structures and algorithms.
• Proven ability to document and communicate technical decisions to a diverse audience.
• Professional experience leading design or architecture of multiple new and existing systems.
• Professional experience growing peer engineers through mentorship and guidance.
• Ability to work with problems of extreme ambiguity and lead others through ambiguous situations.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours.
• Health Insurance.
• Meal Allowance.
• 25 days of Annual leave (+ Bank holidays).
• Public Transportation Card.
• Frequent team events & activities in the office and outside.
• Friendly, comfortable and informal office environment.