Location: UK, 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: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.
Preferred Skills:- Strong backend engineering experience, with Go as a primary or preferred language;
- Comfortable working in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud;
- Experience building and maintaining APIs and backend services, including SaaS platforms;
- Familiarity with modern infrastructure and distributed systems;
- Solid understanding of modern deployment practices, including Docker, containers, and Kubernetes;
- Strong background in testing strategies, including TDD, across the full system lifecycle, with a focus on performance optimization;
- Use AI tools to augment your work, applying sound judgement to adopt emerging technologies where they genuinely add value and increase your impact as an engineer.
- 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;
- Possess strong 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.
- Company Private Health care
- Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
- Enhanced pension scheme (only for UK)
- 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
- £/€2000 annual learning and development budget for training courses and conferences
- £/€300 annual allowance for additional hardware
- Wellbeing & Performance Support via Oli including Therapy and Coaching
- Discretionary Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
- Generous referral schemes
- 1st Interview with a Talent Partner (30/45 mins)
- Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)
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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.
Skills Required
- Strong backend engineering experience
- Experience in cloud environments
- Building and maintaining APIs and backend services
- Familiarity with modern infrastructure and distributed systems
- Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes deployment practices
- Background in testing strategies and performance optimization
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
