Descrição

Employer/Client: Payments orchestration platform (Fintech product)

Location: Porto, Portugal (Hybrid, 3 days in the office per week)

Work experience: +8 years

Type of employment: Full-time & Permanent

What is our client looking for?

Our client, a dynamic and rapidly growing company in the digital payments solutions space, is seeking an experienced and innovative Staff Engineer – DevOps to lead technical excellence, infrastructure scalability, and system reliability across their engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines, with hands-on expertise in system design, automation, and performance optimisation. In this role, you will drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, and ensure the delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain platform integrity through rigorous code reviews, security patching, and continuous innovation. This is a unique opportunity to influence the technical direction of a fast-growing company while fostering a culture of collaboration, quality, and technical growth.

• Responsibilities:
• Drive the long-term technical vision for DevOps practices, ensuring alignment across teams and value streams.
• Architect and implement scalable, high-performance infrastructure solutions, ensuring resilience, automation, and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers at all levels, fostering growth through coaching, workshops, and technical reviews.
• Partner with Tech Leads, Principal Engineers, and Product Managers to align infrastructure initiatives with business priorities.
• Set and uphold engineering best practices, automation standards, and infrastructure design principles across teams.
• Optimise system performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks, ensuring applications meet performance SLAs and user expectations.
• Champion security best practices, ensuring adherence to compliance requirements, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
• Influence and contribute to the technology roadmap, advocating for investments in automation, scalability, and infrastructure innovation.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects to create infrastructure designs that align with high-level architectural plans.
• Balance strategic leadership with hands-on work, including coding, CI/CD pipeline implementation, and system troubleshooting.
• Bridge the gap between engineering, product, and business teams, effectively communicating technical challenges and solutions.
• Maintain technical backlogs and roadmaps, ensuring key items are included during planning sessions.
• Be on standby to respond promptly to system issues, troubleshoot, and collaborate with teams to resolve incidents with agility.

• Who you are:
• A highly skilled Staff Engineer eager to take on a senior technical leadership role within a fast-growing fintech company.
• Comfortable with hands-on development, leading DevOps strategy, and making technical decisions around infrastructure and system automation.
• Passionate about mentoring engineers, fostering innovation, and ensuring technical excellence in every aspect of infrastructure management.
• A collaborative leader, adept at working with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure aligned with business goals.
• Proficient in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP, with deep knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and security.
• Self-motivated and able to balance strategic oversight with hands-on tasks like coding, code reviews, and system optimisation.
• An effective communicator, fluent in English, able to bridge technical and non-technical teams and align the organisation on technical goals.

• Desirable:
• Experience in fintech or payment orchestration industries.
• Proven experience working in high-growth, fast-paced technology environments.
• Familiarity with cloud-based architecture, microservices, and containerisation technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of software security, cryptography, and PCI-DSS principles.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Expertise in database optimisation, system performance tuning, and delivering scalable technical solutions.

• Benefits:
• Healthcare and Wellbeing:
• Generous private health care.
• Group life insurance (location-dependent).
• Employee assistance program offering 24/7 confidential advice (location-dependent).
• Paid time off for both physical and mental health.
• Global Team and Community:
• Opportunities to work between global offices.
• Company-wide socials, team lunches

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