.Senior C/C++/Rust Engineer Location: Portugal Department: Engineering Contract role About YLD: Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto. About the role: As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You'll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You'll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects. About you: A YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highly skilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others. You'll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects in terms of the product and methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a test-first mindset (actually, writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming and nothing is released until we have a code review. You have a real passion for problem-solving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you. Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this: Crafting excellent products! As a Full Stack Engineer, you will be building new features that meet the needs of our clients' customers, as well as improving their Digital Platform; Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating on engineering initiatives, to continually push yourselves to be better; Participating in regular show and tells to promote your work to both your department and the wider company; Joining our clients' internal events, including meeting external speakers, going to quiz nights, etc. You'll have the following skills and experience: Proven commercial experience of working with C, C++ and Rust; Proficiency in memory management, concurrency, and multi-threaded programming; In-depth understanding of system architecture, including low-level optimization techniques; Experience with C's ownership model and type system, and how it aids in creating safe, concurrent code; Experience with modern build systems and tooling (e.G., CMake, Cargo, Bazel); Strong background in debugging and performance profiling tools (e.G
