BytePitch - Software Labs is hiring a
Backend Software Engineer, Remote - Portugal

Summary

The Backend Engineer role at BytePitch involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining backend systems for various software applications. The position offers remote work, flexible hours, competitive salary, health insurance (depending on contract type and location), meal allowance, external training budget or reimbursement for attending conferences, and potential travel.

Requirements

• Service-oriented architectures, design patterns and data structures
• Test automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Building performance applications and monitoring them that shows you care about your code
• Working with relational and non-relational databases
• Working with frameworks such as Node.js
• Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban and DevOps
• Programming language experience such as Javascript and Typescript
• Building highly concurrent, transactional and resilient services

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining backend components and systems to support software applications
• Creating efficient and secure APIs facilitating communication between the front-end and various services
• Design and optimise databases, write complex SQL queries, and work with relational and NoSQL databases
• Build systems that can handle high-traffic loads and scale horizontally as needed
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and continuously improve system performance
• Implement security best practices to protect data and systems from potential threats and vulnerabilities
• Write unit tests, conduct thorough testing, and troubleshoot issues to ensure the reliability of backend systems
• Work closely with Frontend developers, DevOps engineers, and other team members to deliver integrated solutions
• Create clear and concise technical documentation for backend systems, APIs, and processes

Benefits

• Fully remote working model
• Flexible working hours
• Competitive salary and benefits (e.g., Health Insurance and Meal Allowance*)
• Two types of contracts are available: Employment & Service (B2B) Agreements
• Budget or reimbursement for external training and attending conferences
• Potential traveling (0%-10% of the time, varies according to project/client)