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Blip • Portugal

Senior Backend Developer

Employment type:  Full time

Remote-first

Fully flexible hours

Dog friendly

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Job Description

As a Senior Backend Developer, you are part of a Software Development Team, responsible for the full lifecycle of an application. 

Reporting to a Delivery Manager in a delivery team formed by 5 Developers and 1 QA, you will be using cutting-edge technologies to deliver amazing value to our customers, while scaling our platform to meet the demands of worldwide markets. You will be required to program well-designed, testable, efficient code to solve business needs, as well as testing and documenting the implemented solutions.  

Our Senior Developers are trusted to guide a team of their own from a technical point of view. As experts in their area, they're the go-to people for big ideas and problem-solving. 

What you will be doing... 

As a team player in an Agile Team, working together to keep delivering at pace, scale and with demanded quality to support our products, you will be able to: 

  • Execute, optimize and coach on the software development life cycle
  • Design and develop technical solutions or processes
  • Create and confirm high-quality requirements with stakeholders
  • Suggest alternative methodologies that may be more efficient and actively improve the tooling to improve use cases
  • Tackle tasks by researching and weighing up the pros and cons of various routes to select the right approach
  • Be an expert in your primary programming language, and be competent in others
  • Be an expert in your domain (business and tech) who can guide your team on the best approach for large pieces of work which span multiple components and teams
  • Be able to leverage the above expertise to support other teams in your function so that we deliver the best product to our customers

We hope you have... 

  • Passion for building a great consumer product that our customers will love
  • At least 5 years of proven track record of working with Java (preferable, 8+) or similar OOP Languages
  • Experience working with a high concurrency/high transactional/highly available platform
  • Ability to understand the dependencies between components and how they combine to deliver service to the consumer and business
  • Ability to easily recognize system deficiencies and implement effective solutions 
  • Expertise using established design patterns
  • Drive to encourage appropriate use of reusability techniques (e.g. design patterns, library extraction, new component creation)
  • Ability to support and mentor other colleagues

We'd love to see... 

  • Familiarity working with Client-server protocols such as SOAP, REST
  • Experience working with Kafka and message queueing systems
  • Knowledge of Scala, Akka, memcached, Apache Storm, Apache Cassandra, ZooKeeper
  • Awareness and experience in using agile methodologies
  • Ability to interact effectively with other functional teams
  • Excellent communicator, common sense and a passion for the art of problem solving

Company benefits

Open to job sharing
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Work from anywhere scheme – Take 20 - Spend up to 20 days working abroad
Work from home allowance
Self Development Fund
Health Insurance for Employee + Household
3 extra Vacation Days/Year and up to 5 more, increasing with your length of service
Bonus up to 20% Annual Salary
Training & Development + Job Swing

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options Blip provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure Blip is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.

Working at Blip

Company employees

430

Gender diversity (male:female)

70:30

Office locations

Porto, Portugal

Hiring Countries

Portugal
What employees are saying

"Blip is a pioneer in flexible working practises in Porto, Portugal. The company really cares for the workers' wellbeing and translates that in to effective work."

Delivery Manager at Blip

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