.Location: Portugal Department: Engineering Hours: Full-time Employment: Permanent 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, and 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. Furthermore, 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, both in terms of the product and the 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. If you are a proactive, adaptable, and enthusiastic engineer with a passion for leveraging multiple technologies to build exceptional backend solutions, we encourage you to apply. Join our team and contribute to the development of innovative products that make a difference in the industry. Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this: Crafting excellent products! As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will work on developing new features and optimising existing systems to drive our clients' product forward in the best way; Working on AWS services to build and maintain a scalable cloud infrastructure; Implementing CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment; Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating and on engineering initiatives, to continually push yourselves to be better; Driving good practices within your team, making an impact on the whole department; Participatingin regular show and tells, promoting your work to both your department and the wider company. You'll have the following skills and experience: Proven strong experience as a Python Backend Engineer; Proficiency in JavaScript backend development, particularly with Node