Tech Lead

Decskill, founded in 2014 as an IT Consulting Company, places paramount importance on its greatest asset: its people. Our main mission is to deliver value through knowledge and talent, and we achieve this by fostering a culture of excellence and investing in the development and well-being of our people. With over 600 dedicated professionals and offices in Lisbon, Porto, Madrid, and Luxembourg, Decskill operates across three core areas:

Decskill Talent: We believe that our people are key to our success.

Through Decskill Talent, we empower our team to embrace the digital transformation challenges of our clients. We collaborate with clients to drive innovation, ensuring project success and business growth.

Decskill Boost: Equipping our team with the latest tools and methodologies, we optimize Time-to-Market and deliver innovative solutions exceeding client expectations.

Decskill Connect: Our team collaborates closely with clients to implement and manage IT infrastructures that generate long-term value.

At Decskill, we believe that by nurturing and empowering our people to confront the challenges of digital transformation, we create value not only for our clients but also for our entire ecosystem, fostering a digital community dedicated to growth and progress.

We are looking for Tech Leaders to work remotely from Portugal or Spain.

Project Overview:

The team is primarily focused on transforming the way we manage and collect debt while creating intuitive and seamless user journeys. We produce critical data and work closely with third-party services. Now, we are evolving from a data-centric approach to building a highly efficient service-oriented architecture, relying on best engineering practices and a robust microservice infrastructure. If you're passionate about building world-class microservices and guiding a team toward excellence, this is your opportunity.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Senior Tech Lead that will play a pivotal role in transitioning us to a service-oriented architecture, working in a collaborative environment to design, develop, and maintain microservices in an agile, kanban-driven setup. You’ll help define best practices, ensure scalability, and contribute to making the team highly product-oriented.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of new microservices.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to integrate robust data pipelines and ensure efficient data delivery.
• Develop and maintain scalable backend services using Python and/or TypeScript (Node.js).
• Implement best practices for coding, testing, and deploying across all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Work with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, including Kubernetes, Cloud Functions, and Terraform, to create resilient cloud-based architectures.
• Use message queues like Kafka or Pub/Sub for managing asynchronous processing.
• Advocate for and implement strong testing methodologies, including pair programming.
• Actively contribute to improving the team’s engineering culture, focusing on best practices, reliability, and performance.
• Participate in kanban processes, ensuring tasks are efficiently managed and completed.

Required Skills & Experience (Must-Haves):

• Programming Languages : Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript (Node.js).
• Database Knowledge : Solid experience with SQL databases; familiarity with NoSQL or any other RDBS is a plus.
• Microservices : Proven experience in building, deploying, and maintaining microservices.
• Cloud : Strong understanding of GCP (Google Cloud Platform), including Kubernetes, Cloud Functions, and Terraform.
• Message Queues : Experience with Kafka or Google Pub/Sub for distributed messaging.
• Monitoring : Experience with Datadog or other observability tools.
• Containers : Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Best Practices : A strong focus on clean code, testing, pair programming, and industry best practices.
• Agile : Familiarity with kanban processes for task management.
• Languages: Fluency in english.

Nice-to-Have Skills (Bonus):

• Frontend : Experience with React for building user interfaces.
• Data Pipelines : Understanding of data processing and pipeline creation.
• Cloud Functions : Experience writing and deploying cloud functions.
• BigQuery : Some experience working with BQ.

Soft Skills:

• Collaboration : Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.
• Communication : Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Problem Solving : Ability to work independently and solve complex engineering challenges.
• Mentorship : Poven leadership experience guiding and mentoring engineering teams.

If you’re interested please send your CV in English to [email protected] with reference "LM/TL".

Decskill is committed to equality and non-discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent, based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being.