Python Engineer

Python Engineer

Location: Portugal, Remote

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

About YLD:

Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay. We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

About the role:

We’re looking for a Mid/Senior Software Engineer to join our client’s dynamic team and help build innovative, high-impact products. You’ll be curious, passionate, and driven, with a genuine enthusiasm for problem-solving and building scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant systems.

You’ll thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, collaborating closely with your team to deliver outstanding results and exciting projects.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:

• Craft high-quality products: Develop new features, optimise existing systems, and drive client products forward.
• Build scalable cloud infrastructure: Work with AWS services to create resilient, performant solutions.
• Automate delivery: Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for seamless testing and deployment.
• Collaborate & innovate: Work closely with your team on engineering initiatives, pushing for continual improvement.
• Shape engineering practices: Influence team processes, promote best practices, and contribute to the wider department.
• Showcase your work: Participate in regular demos and presentations to share your achievements across the company.
  
  

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience as a Python Backend Engineer, with hands-on experience in frameworks and tools such as Django, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and pytest.
• Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines, including relevant tools and best practices.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and orchestration platforms (e.g., AWS ECS).
• Knowledge of multiple protocols such as HTTP, GraphQL, and gRPC.
• Experience with databases (relational and schema-less), including PostgreSQL, Neo4j, and Snowflake.
• Strong focus on testing and quality, from unit tests to security, customer journey, and accessibility.
• Building high-performance, scalable applications and familiarity with performance monitoring tools.
  
  

You should apply if you are:

• Self-motivated and proactive, always looking to grow and improve.
• Excellent communicator, able to explain technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented and analytical, balancing innovation with practical technology choices.
• Collaborative and team-oriented, thriving in a dynamic environment.
• A strong advocate for diversity, fairness, and inclusion.
• Based in Portugal.
  
  

What you’ll get in return

As well as the chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people, you’ll also get:

• Company Private Health Care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• €2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• €300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Mental Health support: access to Spill app
• Meditation/Sleep support: Headspace or Calm app subscription
• Bonus (depending on Company's performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes
  
  

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Engineers (1h30)
  
  

Get a glimpse of what it's like working at YLD! 🤳

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We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together
  
  

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.