Contract C/Rust Engineer (Portugal based)

Senior C/C++/Rust Engineer

Location: Portugal

Department: Engineering

Contract role

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.

About you:

A YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highly skilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others.

You’ll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects in terms of the product and methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a test-first mindset (actually, writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming and nothing is released until we have a code review.

You have a real passion for problem-solving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you.

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

• Crafting excellent products! As a Full-Stack Engineer, you will be building new features and integrations that meet the needs of our clients’ customers, as well as improving their Digital Platform;
• Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating on engineering initiatives, to continually push yourselves to be better;
• Participating in regular show and tells, promoting your work to both your department and the wider company;

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

• Proven commercial experience of working with C, C++ and Rust;
• Proficiency in memory management, concurrency, and multithreaded programming;
• In-depth understanding of system architecture, including low-level optimization techniques;
• Experience with modern build systems and tooling (e.g., CMake, Cargo, Bazel);
• Experience with Python for small scripts or test integrations;
• Strong background in debugging and performance profiling tools (e.g., GDB, Valgrind, or equivalent tools for Rust/C++);
• Strong focus on testing methodologies, including Unit, Integration, and System-level tests;
• Building high-performance and scalable applications;
• Familiarity with cross-platform development (e.g., embedded systems, Linux, macOS, and Windows);
• Familiarity with orchestration and containerization tooling (e.g. Docker);
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, as well as automated testing frameworks;
• Familiarity with performance monitoring tools;
• Knowledge of networking protocols, real-time systems, or similar domains is a strong advantage.

You’ll be:

• Self-motivated, proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
• A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
• Detail oriented;
• Problem-solving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs;
• Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
• Analytical and problem-solving-oriented;
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.

What you’ll get in return:

• The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business.

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• 2nd Technical Interview with our Senior Engineers (~1h30)
• Meet and discuss with a Client Partner (15/30mins)

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 of all kinds. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also believe in work-life balance and offer flexible working around our core hours.