What you'll be doing

• Designing and operating distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native services.
• Applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to model complex business domains and define clear service boundaries.
• Building maintainable systems following Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and similar architectural principles.
• Designing APIs, service integrations, and reliable asynchronous workflows using technologies such as Temporal.
• Designing secure authentication and authorization solutions, applying standards such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and WebAuthn, as well as fine-grained authorization models.
• Ensuring scalability, security, observability, and resilience in production.
• Continuously improving shared libraries, project structure, development tooling, and automated quality assurance practices to promote consistency, reusability, and maintainability across services.
• Driving architectural decisions, evaluating trade-offs, and mentoring other engineers.
• Leveraging AI extensively but responsibly, including developing guardrails, agent harnesses, and tooling to maintain engineering quality in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Strong engineering fundamentals over specific language experience, primarily using Node.js with TypeScript.
• Experience with technologies such as Temporal, SpiceDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Redis is beneficial.
• Ability to take technical ownership of complex business domains and backend services.
• Capabilities in technical leadership combining hands-on engineering with architectural influence.
• Remote work capability with occasional travel to Amsterdam or other European offsite meetings.

Your colleagues would say you

• Lead by example and raise the bar with pragmatism and care.
• Communicate clearly, listen well, and bring people along in decisions.
• Enjoy breaking down complex problems, gathering input, and driving to a solution.
• Coach others and create space for people to grow.
• Prefer progress over perfection, while still caring deeply about quality.

Perks and benefits

• Your own Pleo card to avoid out-of-pocket spending.
• Lunch provided in Lisbon, Copenhagen, and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance elsewhere.
• Private health insurance supporting physical and mental well-being.
• Wellbeing days for fully paid time off to recharge and prioritize self-care.
• Access to MyndUp for free mental health and wellbeing support.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning for continuous personal and professional development.
• Paid parental leave to support families without compromising work.