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Urgent! Software Engineer (Python/React) Job | YLD

Software Engineer (Python/React)



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Overview

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Location: UK or Portugal | Department: Engineering | Hours: Full-time

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.

We are a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people.

We offer a remote-first environment with flexible working and work-life balance for all employees.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products.

You’ll be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic.

You’ll solve problems, craft scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures, and communicate effectively as a team player.

You and your team will work in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering exciting projects.

About You

You are a highly-skilled software engineer who shares knowledge with others.

You will work on interesting projects in an Agile (Scrum) environment with a test-first mindset, pair programming, and code reviews.

You are an active learner who enjoys collaborating with others.

If you are proactive, adaptable, and enthusiastic with experience in Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar languages, you should apply.

Join us to contribute to innovative products that make a difference.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

  • Crafting excellent products as a Full-Stack Engineer, building new features to meet client needs
  • Continuously delivering changes as the client moves to a full CI/CD model
  • Collaborating with your team on engineering initiatives to improve
  • Learning, growing, and mentoring the engineering team to accelerate career growth
  • Working with the Lead to architect, design, build, and deliver highly available, zero-downtime products
  • Owning production operation and monitoring of products in line with SLAs
  • Driving good practices within the team and the department
  • Participating in regular show-and-tells and promoting work to the department and wider company

Skills and experience

  • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Go with the ability to rapidly learn new languages
  • Experience with modern frameworks across the stack (FastAPI, Gin, Express, etc.)
  • Production experience with React, build tools, state management, responsive design, and accessibility standards
  • Comprehensive testing experience (unit, integration, e2e, security) and performance optimization
  • Scalable system design, load balancing, and high-availability architectures
  • Database design and optimization (relational and NoSQL)
  • API development (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and event-driven architectures
  • Caching and messaging (Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Monitoring, observability, and performance tools
  • Calm under pressure when debugging production issues

You’ll be

  • Self-motivated, proactive and continuously seeking self-improvement
  • Strong communicator who can explain technical ideas in business terms
  • Detail-oriented
  • Problem-solver balancing innovation with pragmatic technology choices
  • Team-oriented and collaborative
  • Analytical and diversity-minded

Benefits

  • Company private health care
  • Enhanced paid maternity and paternity leave up to 6 months
  • Company pension scheme (UK only)
  • 25 days annual holiday (excluding public holidays)
  • £2,000/€2,000 annual training/conference allowance
  • £300/€300 annual hardware allowance
  • Mental health support via Spill app
  • Headspace or Calm for mindfulness support
  • Bonus (dependent on company performance)
  • Company laptop
  • Generous referral schemes

Recruitment process

  • 1st Interview with Talent team (30/45 mins)
  • Take-Home Challenge (~1h)
  • Technical Interview with Senior Developers (1h30)

Values

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

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds.

We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status.

We also offer a remote-first working environment, meaning flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.

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Required Skill Profession

Arquitectura Y Diseño De Software



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