Full-Stack Engineer

Acolad is the global leader in content and language solutions. Its mission is to support companies in every industry to scale across markets and enable growth through cutting-edge technology and localization expertise. Established in 1995, the group is present in 22 countries across Europe, North America and Asia, with over 1.600 employees supported by a network of +10.000 linguists around the world.

At Acolad, every position is key to our global growth: we know that we will only succeed if our people succeed.

Joining Acolad means a unique opportunity for professional development through a collaborative global environment that promotes talent and creativity. We are continuously looking for new talent (like you!) to support our mission to drive growth and innovation across some of the world’s leading brands.

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About The Role

We are hiring a full-stack engineer to help carry one of our key platform through its next phase: an extranet portal used every day by our clients, freelance vendors and internal staff, and the services and integrations behind it. The platform handles quotes, missions, invoicing, document exchange and remote interpreting across six locales.

You will work across the whole stack, from the interface people click to the services and APIs behind it, alongside one senior engineer who holds deep knowledge of the platform, and in close collaboration with our AI team.

This is a working, revenue-carrying system with real technical debt, on a path toward our new platform. Your mission is to keep it reliable, modernize it thoughtfully, and help migrate it, without breaking a system people depend on every day. If you want a greenfield rebuild, this is not your role. If you like taking an imperfect, important system and making it genuinely better, it is.

Key Responsibilities

• Modernize and enhance a multilingual portal with a responsive, accessible user experience.
• Deliver end-to-end features across the front end, back end, APIs, and services.
• Drive the migration from legacy systems to scalable, maintainable architectures.
• Build and maintain integrations and data flows across platform, database, and AI ecosystems.
• Partner with AI teams to integrate translation and transcription services reliably.
• Improve engineering standards through better tooling, testing, observability, and documentation.
• Work across technologies including JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, .NET, Python, REST APIs, and relational databases.
• Help evolve the front-end architecture, design system, and development tooling.
• Design and enhance modular, API-driven services with strong testing and monitoring practices.
• Develop clean, contract-driven integrations for translation and transcription pipelines.
• Develop and integrate translation and transcription pipelines through clean, contract-driven service integrations.

Requirements

• Strong full-stack development experience across back-end technologies and front-end JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Proven success modernizing legacy systems through incremental, low-risk improvements.
• Expertise in REST APIs, third-party integrations, and relational databases.
• Focus on reliability, observability, testing, logging, and performance monitoring.
• Proficient with Git and improving existing codebases pragmatically.
• Experience integrating external/AI services with validation, retry, and fallback mechanisms.
• Knowledge of modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, or Svelte) and build tools.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS), infrastructure-as-code, and event-driven architectures.
• Exposure to Python, .NET, Elasticsearch, NoSQL databases, or localization/content technologies is a plus.
• Autonomous, collaborative problem-solver who takes ownership, communicates clearly, and shares knowledge.

Benefits

• Remote (in Portugal)
• Private Health Insurance
• Lunch Allowance (in Coverflex card)
• 22 Vacation Days + Seniority Days
• Birthday Leave

Acolad is committed to creating a diverse and equitable workforce. We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion in all its forms—gender, age, disability, marital status, ethnic or social origin, religion, belief, or sexual orientation—enrich the workplace. It opens opportunities for individuals to express their talents, both individually and collectively, and strengthens our ability to adapt to a changing world. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their backgrounds.