Backend Software Engineer

Middle Remote Portugal $47,750–67,100/mo Full-time Posted 2 months ago

Skills & stack

Languages

Scala

Tools & Infra

Kubernetes PostgreSQL RabbitMQ

About the role

Backend Software Engineer at Codacy is a middle-level full-time remote role in Portugal.

Work format

Remote, Portugal. Full-time, permanent employee. English level: C1.

Skills and tools

Scala
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
cats-effect
http4s
TypeScript
Go

What to prepare

Prepare a Scala backend example that shows service design and code quality.
Review a project where you worked with Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, or RabbitMQ.
Be ready to explain how you handled deployment, monitoring, or production issues.

Responsibilities

Develop core features and components in a product-focused squad.
Own features from design and implementation through deployment and monitoring.
Design, test, and optimize backend services in Scala for availability, scalability, and reliability.
Review code and give feedback on quality, testing, security, and performance.
Join technical design discussions and architecture decisions.
Troubleshoot production and non-production issues.
Improve deployment pipelines, observability, and production reliability.

Requirements

Professional Scala experience in a backend setting.
Functional programming knowledge.
API design, microservices, and distributed systems knowledge.
SQL and data storage systems experience.
CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and Docker experience.
Git and Git workflow experience.
Strong remote communication and problem-solving skills.
Good English communication skills.

Nice to have

Java or Kotlin experience.
TypeScript, Python, Go, or Kotlin experience.
Experience with developer integrations such as command-line tools or IDE extensions.
AWS familiarity.

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Codacy

Product

Automated code review and code-quality platform founded in 2012 in Lisbon by Jaime Jorge and Joao Caxaria. Codacy analyzes code in 40+ languages for quality, security and coverage, serving over 870 cu

Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Team size: 51-200
Remote policy: Hybrid

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