Python Engineer (Portugal / UK)

Python Engineer

Location: Portugal or UK (Remote)

Department: Engineering

Hours: Full-time

Employment Type: Permanent

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon and Porto.

About the role:

As a Mid/Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:

• Crafting excellent products! You will work on developing new features and optimising existing systems to drive our clients’ products forward in the best way.
• Working on AWS services to build and maintain a scalable cloud infrastructure
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
• Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating and on engineering initiatives, to continually push yourselves to be better
• Driving good practices within your team, making an impact on the whole department.
• Participating in regular show and tells, promoting your work to both your department and the wider company

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

• Proven strong experience as a Python Backend Engineer, with knowledge of tools and libraries like Django, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and pytest
• Experience, or willingness to learn, Go
• Proficiency with frontend technologies such as: React, Typescript, and CSS;
• Experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines, along with CI/CD tools and best practices — particularly with AWS CDK;
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), containerisation; technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and orchestration platforms (e.g., AWS ECS);
• Familiarity with multiple protocols (e.g., HTTP, GraphQL, and gRPC);
• Experience in databases (both relational and schema-less) — namely, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, and Snowflake;
• Substantial testing experience from code quality through to security, customer journey, and accessibility;
• Building high-performance and scalable applications;
• Familiarity with performance monitoring tools;
• You can keep a cool head when debugging production issues.

You should apply if you are:

• Self-motivated, proactive and constantly looking for ways to improve and develop yourself
• An excellent communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language
• Detail oriented
• Problem-solving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs
• Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Analytical and problem-solving oriented
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness
• Legally able to live and work in Portugal.

What you’ll get in return

As well as the chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people, you’ll also get:

• Company Private Health Care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• €2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• €300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Mental Health support: access to Spill app
• Meditation/Sleep support: Headspace or Calm app subscription
• Bonus (depending on Company's performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Engineers (1h30)

We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.