Senior Backend Engineer (Cloud & AI Platforms)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Cloud & AI Platforms): Architecting and developing scalable backend applications and microservices for intelligent cloud-native platforms with an accent on distributed systems, API design, and data processing. Focus on integrating AI/ML services, optimizing SQL databases, and ensuring high availability and performance in production environments.

Location: Hybrid, Lisbon, Portugal

Company

A leading software and technology consulting company providing mission-critical solutions across industries with specialized software businesses in caretech, banktech, indtech, and tech consulting.

What you will do

• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications and microservices for intelligent platform capabilities
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs and service communication layers for high-availability environments
• Develop cloud-native solutions using distributed architectures and modern infrastructure
• Integrate machine learning services, inference pipelines, and intelligent workflows with AI and data teams
• Design data models, implement persistence layers with relational databases and SQL
• Improve reliability, observability, monitoring, performance, CI/CD, and security standards

Requirements

• 5+ years in software engineering or backend development
• Strong experience with Python, C#, or Kotlin
• API design, backend architecture patterns, production-grade services
• Relational databases, SQL optimization, data-driven applications
• Distributed systems, microservices architectures
• Cloud-based solutions, preferably Azure; AI-enabled applications
• Software lifecycle practices: testing, deployment, monitoring

Nice to have

• Event-driven systems, asynchronous processing, messaging
• DevOps, infrastructure automation, CI/CD
• Observability tooling, logging, performance optimization
• Automotive, embedded, IoT, platform engineering
• Containerized deployments, orchestration
• Modern AI infrastructure, agile environments

Culture & Benefits

• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion fostering innovation
• Openness, trust, and collaborative multidisciplinary teams
• Full-time hybrid work in Lisbon