Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Description

The company is hiring a **Senior Full\-Stack Engineer in Portugal** who is strongly backend\-leaning ( 80–85% backend) to work on high\-scale backend pipelines and data\-heavy systems. The ideal engineer has proven experience building production\-grade ingestion and processing systems, making architecture decisions based on real data volumes, and operating reliably in Kubernetes/AWS environments. Occasional frontend work exists (small UI tasks/new pages), but the core of the job is backend systems design and implementation. Requirements: **Requirements:** * TypeScript \+ Node.js (production experience) * NestJS (strong preference, used as the main backend framework) * Strong experience designing backend systems at high scale: * autoscaling, HA, performance, resilience, failure modes * Strong knowledge of event\-driven systems: * Kafka\-based ingestion/streaming, producers/consumers, pipelines, batching concepts * PostgreSQL / SQL proficiency (deep skills required: schema modeling, query optimization) * Kafka (hands\-on experience strongly preferred) * Redis (working knowledge) * Experience working in AWS \+ Kubernetes environments (production familiarity expected) * Practical experience with logs, metrics, tracing to monitor and debug production systems. **Nice\-to\-Have** * Security domain familiarity (application security / runtime protection / vulnerability management) — advantage, not mandatory * Prior work in data\-intensive security platforms or similar high\-scale systems