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Contract Senior Software Engineer (C#)

YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy focused on creating digital capabilities and fostering a culture of learning.

YLD.io

Employee count: 51-200

Portugal only

Location: Remote (EU)

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 and Porto.

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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.

Your role will include to build and deliver software within some interesting projects, both in terms of the product and the 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, you are an active learner and get excited by working collaboratively with those around you.

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

Architecting, designing, building, and delivering highly-available, always-on, zero downtime API products and solutions;

  • Collaborating with engineers, product owners, and other colleagues to seek exciting and results-oriented problems for delivering value;
  • Writing clear, maintainable code that will scale;
  • Contributing to production operation and monitoring of systems and aware of SLAs;
  • Learning, growing, and mentoring other engineers through code reviews and pair programming to accelerate their technical mastery;
  • Proactively looking for ways to improve team processes;
  • Driving good practices within your team, and making an impact on the whole department.

Requirements

You’ll have:

  • Experience in implementing high-quality cloud software solutions, i.e. Azure, AWS, GCP;
  • An awareness of a variety of cloud architectures;
  • A good understanding of consistency, reliability, scalability of systems without downtime;
  • An understanding of design patterns and API design;
  • Experience in system design, design patterns, API design and implementation of large scale distributed systems in the cloud, from IaaS containers to PaaS;
  • Experience in system reliability and stability patterns;
  • Hands-on experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases;
  • The know-how to write readable, idiomatic, and maintainable C#;
  • Experience implementing sophisticated API products;
  • Experience with agile methodologies.

Nice to haves:

  • Experience in building high-performance API products;
  • FinTech experience;
  • Experience launching APIs to both internal and external consumers;
  • Experience building cloud systems (specially Azure).

You’ll be:

  • A T-shaped engineer, but will major in C#;
  • Product oriented;
  • Focused on quality and will know what it means to ship high-quality code;
  • Self-motivated, proactive and always looking for ways to improve yourself, the team and the product;
  • Diplomatic and emotionally intelligent, you’ll have the ability to listen and be open to others’ points of view;
  • A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
  • A genuine believer in diversity, fairness, and including everyone;

Benefits

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)
  • Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)

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 on the basis of 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.

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Portugal +/- 0 hours

About YLD.io

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Creating digital capabilities for you, that last beyond us. We are a software engineering and design consultancy that focuses on building capabilities in digital technologies. Our services cover various aspects, including software engineering, digital product design, and data science.

Our work encompasses multiple industry sectors where we help in developing end-to-end experiences with service integrations, scaling electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure for net-zero emissions, and building automatic energy trading capabilities. We are dedicated to accelerating scientific progress through innovation while enhancing growth with technologies powered by Python. Furthermore, we focus on building a multi-brand design system to ensure scalable efficiency and consistency across all projects. We are committed to fostering a progressive culture of learning within our teams, allowing our engineers to make substantial contributions to the open-source community.

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