Location: Brazil/ Latin America - working EST timezone
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Contract (B2B)
Contract Length: 5/6 Months
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:As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We’re looking for someone curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You should be skilled in problem-solving and experienced in designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’re also an effective communicator and a strong team player. Together with your team, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering outstanding results and exciting projects.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:
- Crafting excellent products! As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be building new features that meet the needs of our clients’ customers, as well as improving their Digital Platform;
- Continuously delivering changes to products, as our client is moving to a full CI/CD model;
- Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating on engineering initiatives, to continually push yourselves to be better;
- Participating in regular show and tells to promote your work to both your department and the wider company;
- Joining our clients’ internal events, including meeting external speakers, going to quiz nights, etc.
You’ll have the following skills and experience:
- Proven commercial experience of working with React and Node;
- Experienced in JavaScript, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures and ES6;
- Experience with GraphQL;
- Experience in distributed version control systems (e.g. Git);
- Experience in databases (both relational and schema-less);
- A strong focus on continuous integration and delivery;
- Strong focus in TDD;
- Building high-performance and scalable applications;
- Good understanding of the design and implementation of RESTful web services;
- Familiarity with performance monitoring tools;
- You can keep a cool head when debugging production issues.
- 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
- Legally able to live and work in Portugal
- Available to work a flexible on-call rota, responding to and resolving critical incidents
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)
- Meet our Client Partner and Engineering Operations Manager (30 mins)
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.
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What We Do
With offices in London, Lisbon, and Porto, YLD is a product design and software engineering consultancy specialising in customer experience and disruptive technologies. We were among the first adopters of innovative technologies like Node.js, React.js, React Native, Kubernetes, and GraphQL, which are now staples for many businesses. YLD was also an early adopter of Design Systems as a service and founded Design Systems London, a non-profit community focused on design and product. We leave your teams and tech in a better space by curating bespoke teams of cross-functional experts in software engineering, architecture, DevOps, delivery, design, product and data science to work alongside your teams through close collaboration and, where needed, pair programming or technical training. We drive rapid iteration towards key business objectives, vision and chosen metrics, creating a long-standing product culture and delivery capability in each piece of work. We’ve helped companies like Bulb, Uphold, NewDay, GoDaddy, CondeNast, and many others, achieve technical product excellence. As a result, we enable organisations, regardless of industry, to become their most successful by creating and nurturing a culture that embraces experimentation and learning that lasts beyond the partnership. We are committed to the Open Source community, with almost 10,000 contributions across 500 open source projects. Collective contributions result in more robust, innovative and faster solutions, allowing open source communities to review the code and propose improvements that increase security and reliability. We are also actively engaged in numerous engineering and design communities, supporting and organising the likes of ReactJS Girls and Design Systems London with both online and in-person events and conferences
