Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

As a Senior Full stack Engineer for the SDK team you will join a talented and collaborative team dedicated to building resilient scalable and delightful systems and experiences for our customers. Leveraging your expertise across both frontend and backend technologies you will work on impactful projects that shape how we solve complex identity verification challenges in an online world.

You will play a key role in delivering high-quality polished products by combining robust system design seamless user interfaces and backend reliability.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to combine frontend and backend expertise to create impactful solutions that address the growing demand for secure and seamless online identity verification.

Responsibilities:

The SDK team develops a variety of web and native SDKs which are embedded into customer applications to help users prove their identity. They care deeply about image capture quality accessibility customization and reducing friction for end-users.

As a Senior Full stack Engineer for the SDK team you will:

Product Development

• Collaborate closely with product designers product managers and engineers to deliver end-to-end experiences that delight customers.
• Design build and maintain robust systems from intuitive frontends using type script and frameworks like React to scalable backends powering public APIs and data processing pipelines.
• Prototype and iterate solutions to ensure they are impactful polished and meet our performance reliability and accessibility standards.
• Support multiple devices browsers and platforms while adhering to accessibility best practices.

Privacy Security and Quality

• Champion privacy and security in every product ensuring they meet the highest standards of customer data protection.
• Write automated tests develop resilient code and design robust systems to improve reliability and safety.

Ownership and Collaboration

• Take ownership of projects from ideation through system design to execution and delivery.
• Collaborate across teams to build scalable solutions that address both front-end and back-end challenges.

Ownership and Collaboration

• Foster a culture of inclusivity collaboration and continuous improvement through participation in retrospectives and feedback.
• Guide and mentor engineers helping them manage technical debt plan refactors and improve engineering practices.

What We Value

• A great understanding of modern frontend technologies (e.g. TypeScript and React) and backend technologies (e.g. Python Kotlin REST APIs data pipelines).
• A strong ability to design and build for scalability reliability and performance across the stack.
• A commitment to privacy and security as core principles in product design and development.
• A proactive approach to continuous learning and improvement paired with a desire to mentor and support others.
• A deep appreciation for trust ownership and rapid iteration as we solve challenging problems in identity verification.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in software engineering with significant exposure to both backend and frontend development.
• Proven expertise in at least one modern front-end framework (e.g. React) and backend technologies (e.g. REST APIs).
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable secure and high-performing systems across the stack.
• Strong knowledge of software development best practices including automated testing code reviews and agile methodologies.
• Must be able to lawfully work within Portugal and have unrestricted work authorization for Portugal.

Preferred Qualifications

• A degree in Engineering Computer Science Mathematics or a related field.
• Experience building accessible and user-friendly interfaces while adhering to privacy and security standards.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with a proven ability to mentor and guide less experienced engineers.
• Passion for solving challenging problems in identity verification or a related domain.
• This role requires a combination of technical expertise collaboration and a commitment to building secure scalable and user-focused solutions.

Tech Stack

We are technology agnostic at Entrust. We are not looking for you to have experience in all these technologies. If youre open to learning please apply.

Below is a detailed breakdown of all the technologies we use.

• Backend: mostly Kotlin Python and Ruby (you dont need to excel all three.)
• Frontend: React and Typescript
• Kubernetes and Docker for deployment
• AWS for underlying infrastructure (Aurora Redis Dynamo S3 SNS SQS CloudFront API Gateway etc.)
• Gitlab for software lifecycle management.

Lisbon office:

At Entrust we have a distributed workforce. This role follows the location specified in the job description: hybrid for Lisbon-based employees or fully remote for those outside Lisbon.

London office:

If youre based in our London UK office youll follow a hybrid work model which requires being in the office three days per week or fully remote for those outside London.

Benefits UK

• 25 days annual leave plus a day off for your Birthday.

• Two paid volunteering days per year.*

• Bupa Private Medical and Dental Insurance*

• Pension with The Peoples Pension (employer contribution 4% of base salary)*

• Generous paid parental leave

• Life enrichment allowance of up to 80 per month to use for services including gym yoga fitness classes massages childcare and therapy

• Dedicated learning opportunities including using tools like Linkedin Learning with availability to use for learning resources such as books coaches conferences courses podcasts and more

• Our open and transparent culture is reflected in our Better Together motto and we bring this to life by meeting once a week for our global weekly roundup (OnThursday); holding quarterly team socials and other company-wide social events

• Expense up to 300 (or local equivalent) to purchase workstation setup equipment

• The opportunity to become a member of Entrusts resource groups in order to learn different skills in our belonging group

PT Benefits:

• 25 days (about 3 and a half weeks) annual leave plus a day off - Birthday.
• Two paid volunteering days per year. *
• Private Medical Dental Insurance through Allianz* (extended up to 2 children)
• Life Assurance (3x Annual Base Salary)*
• Generous paid parental leave
• Life enrichment allowance of up to 95 per month for services including gym yoga fitness classes massages childcare and therapy.
• Expense up to 350 to purchase workstation setup equipment

For US roles or where applicable:

Entrust is an EEO/AA/Disabled/Veterans Employer

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Entrust values diversity and inclusion and we are committed to building a diverse workforce with wide perspectives and innovative ideas. We welcome applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds and we strive to provide an accessible experience for candidates of all abilities.

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