Senior Backend Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal.

📋 Description

• Develop, construct, and manage services and data pipelines for geospatial and temporal analytics.

• Create and implement production-grade APIs and microservices utilizing Python.

• Employ Domain Driven Design for effective domain modeling.

• Integrate Neo4j for graph-centric tasks, focusing on Cypher query optimization and graph data modeling.

• Establish data engineering and machine learning workflows on Databricks.

• Handle geospatial and temporal data, encompassing spatial indexing, time series, and relevant geospatial standards and tools.

• Ensure service reliability, performance, and security while monitoring services in a production environment.

• Oversee features from technical discovery and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and runtime monitoring.

• Review code, mentor team members, and participate in architectural decision-making.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient in advanced Python, including writing clean idiomatic code, managing virtual environments, packaging, type hints, and utilizing async and await.

• Hands-on experience with FastAPI and best practices for asynchronous programming in production.

• Strong grasp of object-oriented design principles and common patterns such as factory, strategy, repository, and dependency injection.

• Solid practical understanding of Domain Driven Design, particularly event-driven domain modeling.

• Expertise in RESTful API design, including resource modeling, versioning, error handling, pagination, and OpenAPI.

• Experience with event-driven systems using Kafka, MQTT, or Azure Event Hubs, along with publish/subscribe and asynchronous task processing.

• Strong SQL skills, particularly with PostgreSQL or SQL Server.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Neo4j.

• Knowledge of Docker, a working understanding of Kubernetes, and familiarity with the Linux command line.

• Experience in testing and CI/CD processes utilizing pytest, TDD, and tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.

• Understanding of secure coding practices, including OWASP Top 10, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and JWT.

• Excellent proficiency in written and spoken English in an international context.

• Preferred qualifications include experience with Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, Azure DevOps, Key Vault, structured logging, Prometheus or Grafana, and OpenTelemetry tracing.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options.

• Dynamic and inclusive work environment.