Software Engineer (PythonReact)

Location: UK or Portugal

Department: Engineering

Hours: Full-time

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.

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer youll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious passionate driven and enthusiastic. Youll be proficient at problem-solving and crafting scalable resilient and fault-tolerant architectures. Youll be an effective communicator and a team player. Furthermore 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.

Youll have the opportunity 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 and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you.

If you are a proactive adaptable and enthusiastic engineer with must-have experience in either Python Go TypeScript or similar languages and a passion for leveraging multiple technologies to build exceptional backend solutions we encourage you to apply. Join our team and contribute to the development of innovative products that make a difference in the industry.

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

• Crafting excellent products! As a Full-Stack Engineer you will be building new features that meet the needs of our clients customers
• Continuously delivering changes to products as our client is moving to a full CI/CD model
• Working closely with your team regularly collaborating and on engineering initiatives to continually push yourselves to be better
• Learning growing and mentoring the engineering team to accelerate their career-growth and encourage them to progress
• Working with the Lead to architect design build and deliver highly available always-on zero downtime products
• Being responsible for the production operation and monitoring of products inline with SLAs
• Driving good practices within your team making an impact on the whole department
• Participating in regular show and tells promoting your work to both your department and the wider company

Youll have the following skills and experience:

• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript Python and Go with ability to rapidly learn new languages
• Experience with modern frameworks across the stack (FastAPI Gin Express etc.)
• Production experience with React modern build tools state management responsive design and accessibility standards
• Comprehensive testing experience (unit integration e2e security) and performance optimization
• Scalable system design patterns load balancing and high-availability architectures
• Database design and optimization (both relational and NoSQL)
• API development (REST GraphQL gRPC) and event-driven architectures
• Caching strategies and message queue systems (Redis Kafka RabbitMQ)
• Cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) with containerisation (Docker Kubernetes)
• CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation)
• Monitoring observability and performance optimisation tools
• You can keep a cool head when debugging production issues

Youll be:

• Self-motivated proactive and constantly looking for ways to improve and develop yourself
• A good communicator both in writing and verbally. Youll 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

As well as the chance to work with a forward-thinking ethical and fun group of people youll also get:

• Company Private Health care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• Companys Pension Scheme (UK Only)
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• 2000/2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• 300/300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Mental Health support: access to Spill app
• Meditation/Sleep support: Headspace or Calm app subscription
• Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Take-Home Challenge (1h)
• 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

Were an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We dont discriminate based on race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation pregnancy or maternity age marital status or disability status. Likewise we also offer a remote-first working environment meaning that flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.