remote backend developer

The company operates Europe’s largest B2C network for digital fuelling, providing in-app and in-car payments at petrol stations across the continent. Its platform is event-driven, microservice-based, and growing.

• Integrate new cashier systems and external platforms into an event-driven microservice architecture
• Advance the existing architecture using Node.js (TypeScript), Docker, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and emerging tools
• Ensure reliable and fault-tolerant communication between internal systems and external platforms
• Develop and optimise algorithms for efficient data parsing and serialisation across diverse data structures and formats
• Identify and resolve data transformation issues to improve system performance and adaptability
• Write clean, maintainable code that supports the platform’s long-term quality and sustainability
• Work in cross-functional agile teams with ownership from day one

• More than 3 years of experience with Node.js
• Several years of hands-on backend development experience, preferably with Node.js/TypeScript
• Experience designing scalable, high-performance distributed systems, including load balancing, caching, and database optimisation
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to own problems end to end
• Good written English
• Будет плюсом: experience with payment processing or PCI-DSS standards

• Competitive salary
• Flexible hours
• Annual training budget and wellness perks
• Must be based in Portugal
• Permanent contract