7 months ago
Lisbon, PortugalSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain scalable, efficient overall system architecture and design.
- Provide technical leadership and guide engineering teams on architecture, coding, and scalability best practices.
- Design and document high-level system diagrams, data flows, and API structures.
- Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and cloud services for performance, security, and cost efficiency.
- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, security, resilience, and future scalability.
- Oversee integrations involving microservices, APIs, and third-party services.
- Collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams on deployment and operational reliability.
- Establish coding and architecture standards and conduct architecture reviews and performance audits.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks and continuously improve system efficiency.
Requirements
- Around 6+ years of experience in software development and architecture.
- Strong expertise in system design, cloud computing, and microservices architecture.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and cloud-native architectures.
- Proficiency with backend technologies such as Node.js, Python, Java, or .NET, plus modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, caching strategies, and data pipelines.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, API design, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of security best practices, identity management, and encryption techniques.
- Ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs involving scalability, cost, and complexity.
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and CloudFormation.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex architectural concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Apple hardware ecosystem for work.
- Annual bonus.
- Top-tier health and life insurance.
- Transportation budget to support commuting.
- Coverflex benefits package for meals, well-being, and more.
- Childcare support.
- Air Conference for team collaboration and growth.
- Pension fund.
- Urban Sports Club membership.
- Meals are 100% free at the hub.
Tech Stack
About Air Apps
Air Apps develops and publishes consumer mobile apps for iOS and Android across productivity, utilities, fitness, creativity, and learning. Founded in 2018 in Lisbon and now operating from Lisbon and San Francisco, the privately held company is self-funded and reports over 100 million worldwide downloads across 30+ titles. Current work includes an AI-powered Personal & Entrepreneurial Resource Planner.