Description

At Mindera we are building a world class team and would love it for you to join us! 

You will be part of team working on the premier destination for sports fans online and as a Backend Technical Lead your main focus will be the facilitation and collaboration in the development of usable, performant, accessible, and maintainable web applications with a focus on a delightful user experience.

You will own the build of fully responsive web applications, highly-available around the world, while influencing architecture and technical direction.

You’ll get to help design and evolve the architecture of our webapps and to be part of the journey of continuous improvement to make the team the best that it can be. Your code will be used by thousands of customers worldwide.

How does that sound?

(National and international expected travelling time varies according to project/client and organisational needs. We estimate it to be between 0%-15%)

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience; bonus points for previous experience as a tech lead;
• In-depth knowledge of the web tech stack, from DNS to HTTP and client-side technologies;
• Service-oriented architectures, design patterns, and data structures;
• Test automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery;
• Operational aspects, building performant applications and monitoring them showing you care about your code;
• Working with frameworks such as Spring Boot or Vert.x (although not essential);
• You have an inclusive development mindset and do your best to ensure web applications are usable by anyone, regardless of any disabilities;
• You care about security, use defensive programming and know how to prevent and mitigate common web attack vectors;
• Experience of developing and running large scale production environments in or closely with DevOps / SRE;
• Experience with CI/CD workflows and writing automated tests;
• Experience of agile development practices, i.e. Scrum & Kanban;
• Ability to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, OS);
• You recognise the value of code reviews and have experience in mentoring teammates while helping them grow.

Benefits

The things we really care about:

• Health Insurance – because your health comes first;
• Flexible working hours and autonomous ways of working;
• Open holidays – take the time you need for yourself;
• Profit distribution;
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun;
• Training & conferences – create your own training plan;
• Child Care vouchers.

Other good things:

• Choose a Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs;
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT) – for work or Netflix ;)
• Our offices are not just working spaces — we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy. Also, we have fun there! Board games, beer and wine tasting, you name it;
• Don’t worry if you prefer to work remotely. You’re more than welcome to join our offices whenever you want;
• Partnerships with local businesses with special offers and discounts.

Discover more about Mindera – Portugal here.

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At Mindera, we craft software with people we love.

We are 1000+ techies working from anywhere in the world who love to implement the best engineering practices and use the latest tech stack to deliver web and mobile applications for over 100 well-known international clients since we started.

We partner with our clients to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, and the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work, and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile and collaborative environment.

Before applying, get to know how we hire and take a look at our Handbook!

Our offices are located in: Portugal (Aveiro, Coimbra, Porto) | UK (Leicester) | USA (San Diego, San Francisco) | India (Bengaluru, Chennai) |Romania (Cluj-Napoca) | Brazil (Blumenau)