Tech Lead

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Tech Lead to guide our development team in delivering high-quality software. You will own the delivery process end-to-end, ensuring that our products are built to modern development standards while fostering a culture of excellence and velocity. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, experience in coaching and mentoring teams, and a passion for optimising processes to drive efficiency.

This is an office role based in Alvalade, Lisbon with flexibility to work remotely.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of high-quality software: Lead the technical direction of projects, ensuring that software is delivered on time, meets business requirements, and adheres to the highest standards of performance, security, and scalability.
• Optimise development processes: Continuously review and improve the development lifecycle to increase efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and enhance productivity.
• Coach and mentor developers: Provide hands-on technical guidance, mentorship, and support to the development team. Foster professional growth and engineering excellence through regular feedback, training, and knowledge sharing.
• Ensure modern development standards: Promote and implement best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code reviews, and clean coding principles.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to align technical decisions with business goals and ensure a shared vision across the product lifecycle.
• Technical leadership: Make critical decisions around architecture, tools, and frameworks, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability of the codebase.
• Stay updated with industry trends: Continuously explore new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies to ensure the team is up-to-date with the latest advancements in software development. Especially concerning the ability to rapidly prototype ideas using AI.

Skills Required:

• Experienced working through the design, development, release cycle, and delivering software products to market, with a track record of successful delivery of software applications as an individual and tech leader
• Experience with managing the development of SaaS and cloud-based applications
• Our stack is: C#, Python, Nuxt/VueJS, PostgreSQL, all on AWS. The more experience in each the better, but all definitely not necessary.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English is required.

Why Join Us:

• Own the technology team. This is a great opportunity to truly own a delivery team and be responsible for a development organisation. You will be taking part in an international organisation and be able to learn from your peers in other countries and the Group CTO
• Competitive salary and benefits

Start date: as soon as possible

What We Offer

• Health insurance
• Meal card
• Transport subsidy
• Opportunity to work on meaningful projects that power internal operations
• A supportive, fast-moving, and collaborative team environment