Senior Back-End Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Pixelmatters is a digital product studio. We’re a team of strategists, designers and engineers creating top-quality digital products.

Our mission is to empower businesses to achieve their full potential by creating top-quality digital products while fostering great relationships along the way. We envision a world where great user experience is the norm, not the exception, inspiring businesses and people to be at their best.

We're looking for you, a meticulous, curious and adaptable Back-End Engineer, who has the ability to develop scalable and efficient software solutions, ensuring robust functionality and performance. In addition, you are a collaborative team player, actively supporting and promoting knowledge sharing as part of your approach.

Your role will focus on designing, testing, and implementing back-end systems, playing a key role in building secure, high-performance applications. You will be involved in all stages of back-end development, from database design to API implementation and system architecture. For this reason, it’s expected that you are comfortable working with server-side languages, frameworks, and cloud infrastructure.

Some of your day-to-day tasks will include developing and optimizing APIs, designing and maintaining databases, managing infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, writing tests, and ensuring system scalability and reliability.

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience in software development with a strong backend focus.
• Proficiency in backend programming languages, preferably Ruby on Rails
• Experience with databases (SQL, Redis)
• Experience in designing and maintaining scalable RESTful APIs
• Familiar with version control systems such as Git
• Excellent understanding of English and Portuguese (written and spoken)

It would be awesome if you also have...

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong problem-solving skills, system design, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in frontend technologies and Javascript

Benefits

• Quality-driven, inspiring, and collaborative work environment
• Competitive salary and benefits, including health insurance
• We have an office located at Porto’s downtown, while continuing to back our “Remote as default, Office as an option” policy

Compensation

• The salary range from this role is between €43,626 to €61,126 annual gross which includes meal, vacation, and Xmas allowance.