Location: UK, Portugal, Remote

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

About YLD:

Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay.

We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We’re looking for someone curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You should be skilled in problem-solving and experienced in designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’re also an effective communicator and a strong team player. Together with your team, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering outstanding results and exciting projects.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong backend engineering experience, with Go as a primary or preferred language;
• Comfortable working in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud;
• Experience building and maintaining APIs and backend services, including SaaS platforms;
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure and distributed systems;
• Solid understanding of modern deployment practices, including Docker, containers, and Kubernetes;
• Strong background in testing strategies, including TDD, across the full system lifecycle, with a focus on performance optimization;
• Use AI tools to augment your work, applying sound judgement to adopt emerging technologies where they genuinely add value and increase your impact as an engineer.

You should apply if you are:

• Self-motivated, proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
• A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
• Detail-oriented;
• Possess strong 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.

Benefits you’ll receive:

• Company Private Health care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• Enhanced pension scheme (only for UK)
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• £/€2000 annual learning and development budget for training courses and conferences
• £/€300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Wellbeing & Performance Support via Oli including Therapy and Coaching
• Discretionary Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical recruitment process:

• 1st Interview with a Talent Partner (30/45 mins)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)

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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.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

MUST HAVE:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering within fast-paced, cloud-native environments
• Deep expertise in Python, SQL, Docker, and AWS (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Athena/Presto)
• Experience building and managing scalable ETL pipelines and data lake infrastructure
• Familiarity with distributed systems, Spark, and data quality best practices
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to support BI, analytics, and engineering teams

EXPERIENCE: 5+ years of data engineering experience in an AWS-based environment where data powers decision-making across product, marketing, and operations.

YOUR ROLE

Lead scalable data engineering efforts that empower cross-functional teams with reliable, timely, and actionable data, ensuring Launch Potato’s analytics and business intelligence infrastructure fuels strategic growth.

OUTCOMES

• Build and optimize scalable, efficient ETL and data lake processes that proactively catch issues before they impact the business
• Own the ingestion, modeling, and transformation of structured and unstructured data to support reporting and analysis across all business units
• Partner closely with BI and Analytics to deliver clean, query-ready datasets that improve user acquisition, engagement, and revenue growth
• Maintain and enhance database monitoring, anomaly detection, and quality assurance workflows
• Serve as the internal point of contact for reporting infrastructure—delivering ad hoc data analyses and driving consistent data integrity
• Drive adoption and advancement of Looker dashboards by ensuring robust and scalable backend data support
• Contribute to the future of Launch Potato’s data team by mentoring peers and shaping a high-performance, quality-first engineering culture

COMPETENCIES

• Data Engineering Mastery: Demonstrates technical excellence in building data pipelines, troubleshooting distributed systems, and scaling infrastructure using AWS and open-source tools
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical teams, translating business needs into robust data solutions
• Proactive Ownership: Operates with a strong sense of accountability; identifies and solves data issues independently and efficiently
• Quality-Driven Execution: Holds a high bar for data accuracy, auditability, and documentation throughout all systems and workflows
• Strategic Thinking: Anticipates how data infrastructure impacts wider company OKRs and proactively suggests improvements and innovations
• Growth Mindset: Seeks out opportunities to elevate team capabilities, mentor others, and stay ahead of evolving best practices in data engineering

MUST HAVE:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering within fast-paced, cloud-native environments
• Deep expertise in Python, SQL, Docker, and AWS (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Athena/Presto)
• Experience building and managing scalable ETL pipelines and data lake infrastructure
• Familiarity with distributed systems, Spark, and data quality best practices
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to support BI, analytics, and engineering teams

EXPERIENCE: 5+ years of data engineering experience in an AWS-based environment where data powers decision-making across product, marketing, and operations.

YOUR ROLE

Lead scalable data engineering efforts that empower cross-functional teams with reliable, timely, and actionable data, ensuring Launch Potato’s analytics and business intelligence infrastructure fuels strategic growth.

OUTCOMES

• Build and optimize scalable, efficient ETL and data lake processes that proactively catch issues before they impact the business
• Own the ingestion, modeling, and transformation of structured and unstructured data to support reporting and analysis across all business units
• Partner closely with BI and Analytics to deliver clean, query-ready datasets that improve user acquisition, engagement, and revenue growth
• Maintain and enhance database monitoring, anomaly detection, and quality assurance workflows
• Serve as the internal point of contact for reporting infrastructure—delivering ad hoc data analyses and driving consistent data integrity
• Drive adoption and advancement of Looker dashboards by ensuring robust and scalable backend data support
• Contribute to the future of Launch Potato’s data team by mentoring peers and shaping a high-performance, quality-first engineering culture

COMPETENCIES

• Data Engineering Mastery: Demonstrates technical excellence in building data pipelines, troubleshooting distributed systems, and scaling infrastructure using AWS and open-source tools
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical teams, translating business needs into robust data solutions
• Proactive Ownership: Operates with a strong sense of accountability; identifies and solves data issues independently and efficiently
• Quality-Driven Execution: Holds a high bar for data accuracy, auditability, and documentation throughout all systems and workflows
• Strategic Thinking: Anticipates how data infrastructure impacts wider company OKRs and proactively suggests improvements and innovations
• Growth Mindset: Seeks out opportunities to elevate team capabilities, mentor others, and stay ahead of evolving best practices in data engineering

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer to work as a part of the Infrastructure/CICD team. In this role, you will be responsible for some of the items below:

• Participate in building the modern cloud-native scalable, flexible and extensible Internal Platform solution based on Temporal and other tools with focus on optimized cost, availability, stability, security and compliance, DevEx, performance, minimal on-boarding time.

• Maintain and enhance current solutions for the Workato Internal Platform with focus on health, stability, performance & DevEx

• On-board Workato components & applications to Internal Platform.

• Implement pipelines to automate security, reliability, and availability best practices during all stages of software lifecycle.

• Implement complex deployment scenarios, including dynamic environments, progressive rollouts such as canary deployments, chaos engineering, etc.

• Work with engineering teams to better address needs and enable more effective and efficient developer throughput and improve services through rigorous testing and release.

• Gather and analyze metrics from CICD pipelines and infrastructure to assist in performance tuning and stability improvements.

• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and architecture reviews.

• Document development processes and best practices.

• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.

• Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for code integration, quality testing, security scanning and deployment.

If you’re looking for a real challenge in terms of mission criticality, multi-geographic region deployments, diversity of managed services then this might be the position for you!

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, JavaScript, Python, with preference to Go

• Experience with creating internal platform tooling, e.g. CLI tools, etc

• Experience creating scalable development and integration pipelines with tools such as ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, GitHub Actions, or similar solutions.

• Experience creating application deployments of Kubernetes-based services using tools like Kustomize, Helm, ArgoCD or similar ones using release engineering practices such as GitOps.

• Experience with cloud-based architectures like Amazon Web Services and knowledge of related Infrastructure as Code & CICD practices.

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and web services architecture.

• Experience with managing complex infrastructure (such as Kubernetes clusters, VPC networking and security policies) using Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform or CloudFormation).

• Hands-on experience with containers (creating and optimizing Dockerfiles, using docker-compose), deep understanding of underlying and related technologies (kernel features, container networking, image structure & registry). 

• Familiarity with software packaging tools, functional testing, security validation tools and services, code coverage tools.

• BS or MS in the CS field (or equivalent experience).

• 5+ years professional experience in hands-on engineering roles (Platform Engineer / Software Engineer /  DevOps / SRE / CICD).

(REQ ID: 2718)

Cloud Platform Engineer needed to design, build and maintain our cloud infrastructure and platform services on Google Cloud Platform, with a strong focus on event-driven architectures.

What you’ll get to do:

You will leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, design and manage our event-driven API gateway using Apigee X, and ensure robust observability with New Relic. This role involves enhancing platform reliability, scalability, and performance for critical, real-time event-driven systems.

What you should have:

• Proven experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer or DevOps Engineer.
• Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and architecture.
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and managing event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency with Apigee X for API management, specifically in developing and securing event-driven API ecosystems.
• Expertise in setting up and managing monitoring, alerting, and observability tools, particularly New Relic, for complex distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation best practices for cloud deployments.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes in event-driven contexts.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex platform issues and optimize cloud resource utilization.

Bonus points if you have:

• GCP Professional Cloud Architect or DevOps Engineer certification.
• Experience with other cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Scripting skills in languages like Python or Go.
• Knowledge of serverless architectures (e.g., Cloud Functions, Cloud Run) for event processing.
• Experience with message brokers and streaming platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka).
• Experience with advanced security practices in cloud environments.

What we can offer you:

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

Permanent only:
We offer a great benefits package including  training opportunities, medical insurance, Dental insurance, Meal cards, social events, family friendly policies, discounts with hundreds of retailers and much more.

Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage.

We lead with Heart, fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish.
We empower your Brains for innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges.
And we champion Courage, inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

AT VML Enterprise Solutions

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.

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Location: Portugal

Department: Engineering

Employment: 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, Porto.

About the role:

As a 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.

About you:

A YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highly skilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others.

You’ll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects in terms of the product and methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a test-first mindset (actually, writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming and nothing is released until we have a code review.

You have a real passion for problem-solving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you.

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

• Crafting excellent products! As an AI Engineer, you will be building new AI-powered features that meet the needs of our clients' customers, as well as improving their Digital Platform with intelligent capabilities;
• Continuously delivering changes to products including AI model integrations, prompt optimisations, and system improvements, as we push for a full CI/CD model;
• Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating on both traditional engineering and AI initiatives, to continually push yourselves to build better, smarter systems;
• Participating in regular show and tells to promote your work — from AI experiments to production deployments — to both your department and the wider company;
• Joining our clients’ internal events, including meeting external speakers, going to quiz nights, etc.

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

Core Programming & AI

• Proven strong experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python
• Advanced GenAI/LLM expertise: RAG, embeddings, vector search, prompt engineering, evals, guardrails, caching, chaining, function calling, etc
• Fine-tuning expertise: LoRA/QLoRA, instruction tuning, RLHF, domain adaptation, and custom model training
• Agentic architecture design: multi-agent systems, tool orchestration, planning/reasoning frameworks, memory systems, and agent coordination patterns
• Eval systems: automated evals, human feedback loops, benchmarking, A/B testing, safety testing, hallucination detection, and performance metrics
• Experience with LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, LiteLLM, CrewAI, Mastra, etc) and API integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)

Infrastructure & DevOps

• CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for GenAI workloads and API management
• Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) for AI applications
• LLM hosting and inference optimisation (vLLM, TGI, local deployment)

Data & Databases

• Vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, Qdrant) and traditional databases (PostgreSQL, Neo4j)
• Data pipeline design for RAG and knowledge ingestion
• Real-time data streaming and processing
• Document processing and embedding generation workflows

Frontend & APIs

• React or modern UI frameworks
• API design for LLM services and conversational interfaces
• Multiple protocols (HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, MCP)
• Real-time chat and streaming response handling

Performance & Reliability

• Building high-performance, scalable AI applications
• LLM cost optimisation, token management, and caching strategies
• Performance monitoring, observability, and debugging production AI systems
• Comprehensive testing: unit, integration, AI behaviour, security, accessibility

You’ll be:

• Self-motivated, proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
• A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
• Detail oriented;
• Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
• Comfortable with experimentation, iteration, and managing uncertainty in AI systems;
• Analytical and problem-solving oriented;
• Ethical thinker who considers the broader implications of AI implementations;
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.

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
• Wellbeing & Performance Support via Oli including Therapy and Coaching
• Discretionary Bonus (depending on Company 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 Developers (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 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 that flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.

Cloud Platform Engineer with GCP experience needed to design, build and maintain our cloud infrastructure and platform services on Google Cloud Platform, with a strong focus on event-driven architectures. 

Please send over your CV in English

What you’ll get to do:

In our Lisbon or Porto office, you’ll join a team of other specialists who are always ready to help each other. The team is part of our VML Enterprise Solutions network and works in coordination with our Local and EMEA client leads.   

You will leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, design and manage our event-driven API gateway using Apigee X, and ensure robust observability with New Relic. This role involves enhancing platform reliability, scalability, and performance for critical, real-time event-driven systems. 

What you should have:

• Proven experience as a Cloud Platform Engineer or DevOps Engineer. 
• Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and architecture. 
•  Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform. 
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and managing event-driven architectures. 
• Proficiency with Apigee X for API management, specifically in developing and securing event-driven API ecosystems. 
• Expertise in setting up and managing monitoring, alerting, and observability tools, particularly New Relic, for complex distributed systems. 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation best practices for cloud deployments. 
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes in event-driven contexts. 
• Ability to troubleshoot complex platform issues and optimize cloud resource utilization. 

Bonus points if you have:

• GCP Professional Cloud Architect or DevOps Engineer certification.
• Experience with other cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Scripting skills in languages like Python or Go.
• Knowledge of serverless architectures (e.g., Cloud Functions, Cloud Run) for event processing.
• Experience with message brokers and streaming platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka).
• Experience with advanced security practices in cloud environments.  

What we can offer you:

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

We offer a great benefits package including hybrid working that works for everyone, social events, training opportunities, medical and dental insurance, life assurance, meal cards and much more. 

Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage.

We lead with Heart, fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish.
We empower your Brains for innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges.
And we champion Courage, inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

AT VML Enterprise Solutions

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.

#LI-EMEA #LI-HYBRID #LI-JS1

As an Experienced Full Stack Developer, you will play an integral role on building custom solutions, product extensions and integrations. Your primary focus will be active development, contributing to projects that build custom applications to enhance our platform. You’ll leverage your technical expertise while demonstrating strong collaboration and communication skills to achieve team and organizational goals.

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in the development of web services, user interfaces, and backend processes that integrate with various APIs and data stores.
• Solve technical challenges and research innovative solutions to meet project requirements.
• Collaborate closely with teammates to design and implement scalable, efficient, and maintainable solutions.
• Participate in design sessions, asking insightful questions to understand and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Ensure code quality by adhering to software design principles and contributing to code reviews.
• Learn and adapt quickly to new frameworks, languages, and technologies to address evolving business needs.

Key Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• At least 3+ years of hands-on experience in software development with proficiency in JavaScript and Node.js.
• Experience with front-end development (React preferred) and expertise in AWS as the primary cloud platform.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, API development, and cloud-based service architectures.
• Proven experience working within agile development methodologies.
• Nice-to-have experience with MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Bonus skills: Experience with Salesforce and related tools.
• Passion for building innovative solutions with a focus on enterprise durability and scalability.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate complex technical challenges.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills to work seamlessly within a team.

Soft Skills & Organizational Impact:

• Demonstrate maturity, a positive attitude, and discretion when handling sensitive client and team matters.
• Exhibit strong strategic thinking to align technical development with business goals.
• Work cross-functionally with other teams to improve processes and deliver superior customer solutions.
• Serve as a role model of integrity, ethical behavior, and professionalism within the team.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a team that values innovation, creativity, and collaboration.
• Work on challenging, impactful projects that shape the future of customer interactions.
• Enjoy a fast-paced environment that fosters professional growth and development.

If you are a passionate developer who thrives in a dynamic environment and loves building innovative solutions, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today to be a part of our journey!

Additional Notes:
This position will follow a hybrid work model.

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The SRE Connectivity team at Talkdesk is responsible for building, running, and evolving the infrastructure foundation that supports all engineering teams, with an automation-first mindset and a strong focus on availability, reliability, and scalability.

As a Technical Manager, you will combine hands-on technical leadership with people and delivery ownership. You will actively contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of the network and SRE stack, while also guiding the team, setting technical direction, and ensuring sustainable execution.

At Talkdesk, we follow a “you build it, you own it” philosophy. In this role, you will help reinforce that culture by empowering teams with the right tools, practices, and guardrails, fostering a blameless environment focused on learning and continuous improvement.

You will work with a large, distributed, multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure, using modern technologies at scale.

Be responsible for:

Technical (hands-on)

• Design, build, and maintain the core network infrastructure and related tooling used across Talkdesk
• Remain hands-on in the day-to-day work, contributing code, infrastructure changes, and reviews
• Drive automation-first practices across network and infrastructure operations
• Ensure infrastructure reliability through observability, monitoring, alerting, and proactive issue detection
• Develop and evolve tooling, alerts, and operational processes that enable engineering teams to safely run production workloads
• Participate in on-call rotation, leading by example and staying close to production realities
• Lead and actively participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems, ensuring concrete follow-ups that improve resilience

Leadership & management

• Provide technical direction and standards for the network and SRE domain
• Mentor and coach engineers, supporting their technical growth and operational maturity
• Plan and prioritize work with a focus on impact, risk reduction, and long-term sustainability
• Act as a technical partner to product engineering teams, helping them design more reliable, scalable, and observable services
• Balance short-term operational needs with longer-term architectural improvements

Need to have:

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS networking
• Hands-on experience configuring and operating AWS Direct Connect
• Hands-on experience with Fortinet firewalls and Fortinet network security products
• Experience working with NetBox or similar network source-of-truth solutions
• Solid knowledge of Linux/Unix systems
• Programming/scripting skills in at least one language (e.g. Python, Bash)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar)
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or similar)
• Proven ability to identify manual, error-prone processes and replace them with automation
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to identify root causes in large-scale distributed systems
• Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with strong critical thinking skills

Be valued for:

• Experience supporting production systems at scale
• Experience with technologies such as Docker, Consul, Vault, Jenkins, Concourse, Prometheus, Nexus
• Experience with encryption and key management technologies (ACM, KMS, hashing, secret management)
• Experience with additional firewall or network security solutions beyond Fortinet
• Experience with other cloud providers such as GCP or Azure
• Previous experience acting as a technical lead or manager while remaining hands-on

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required)
• Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
• Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
• The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

• Be part of an agile team to develop a scalable, highly available cloud contact center software using Java and single-page JavaScript.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, Engineering leaders and Test Engineers.
• Deliver scalable software in both private cloud and public cloud settings (AWS and Google Cloud Platform).
• Deliver using containers (docker, Kubernetes) using CI/CD in a DevOps model.
• Bring a positive attitude to the team, helping mentor more junior engineers, drive our standards, show ownership and an obsession for our customers.

• 2+ years of professional experience developing Java applications – including delivering RESTful and gRPC apis. 
• 5+ years of professional or open-source experience writing JavaScript MVC.
• Agile coding experience, working in small teams making a big impact fast.
• Familiarity with standard javascript async patterns (events, closures, callbacks, promises, error handling, etc.).
• Strong CS fundamentals and an object oriented language (think an undergrad CS degree, or similar amount of work experience).
• Positive, self-motivated and enthusiastic with a strong sense of ownership.

• Experience with Salesforce integrations as OpenCTI and Service Cloud Voice.
• Experience with Voice applications and/or SIP Protocols.
• Experience with Contact Center or Call Center software.
• 1+ years of professional or open-source experience with a JavaScript MVC toolkit such as React, Dojo, AngularJS, Backbone.js, Knockout or Ember.js.
• 1+ years of experience delivering production software using Containers (Docker or similar).
• 1+ years of experience delivering production software into Public Cloud.
• Experience in a modern consumer environment (Pinterest, Box, Quora, Facebook...) and/or open source projects (contributed to node.js, dojo toolkit, NPM modules, etc).
• Experience with GIT SCM.
• Passion for user experience and strong design experience.
• Experience with a data visualization package (Highcharts, d3.js, etc.).

Benefits:

• Five9 Shares
• Bonus Scheme
• 10% Flex Benefit
• Meal Allowance
• Medical Insurance
• Life Insurance 
• 25 day Annual Leave + Public Holidays

The Role

We are an IoT startup turning massive-scale, low-power device data into real-world impact. With a live fleet of more than one million connected devices, we generate high-volume telemetry every day. We are looking for a passionate Frontend Developer to help us turn the raw data into intuitive, powerful visual experiences, in a flexible hybrid setup combining remote and in-office work from our new office in the center of Porto.

You will join an interdisciplinary agile product team and help design and build modern web applications that make complex data easy to understand and act upon.

We are looking for someone curious, pragmatic and collaborative who enjoys solving problems, improving user experience, and continuously refining how the team works.

Your responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership across the full lifecycle, collaborating with engineers and UX designers, to design, build, test, deploy and maintain frontend features
• Implement responsive, user-friendly interfaces for data-driven applications
• Contribute to architecture, design and technology discussions
• Continuously improve code quality, documentation and technical debt
• Review pull requests and design proposals from teammates
• Participate in agile software development activities (e.g. planning meetings, reviews, retrospectives…)

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong experience with TypeScript and modern frontend development
• Experience with Angular or similar frontend frameworks
• Good understanding of frontend architecture, design patterns and web technologies
• Experience with software testing (TDD is a plus)
• Familiar with containerised applications (Docker)
• Solid experience with Git, and CI/CD best practices (Gitlab CI)
• Fluent in English

Nice to have

• Experience with monorepos and build tools (e.g. Nx)
• Experience building large-scale frontend applications

Work authorization: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Portugal. Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas for this role.

Our Frontend Stack

• TypeScript 
• Angular 
• Nx 
• Cypress/Jest

The Role

We are an IoT startup turning massive-scale, low-power device data into real-world impact. With a fleet of more than one million connected devices, we generate high-volume telemetry every day. We are looking for a passionate Backend Developer to help enrich, transform and distribute this data in a flexible hybrid setup combining remote and in-office work from our new office in Portugal.

You will join an interdisciplinary agile product team and contribute to the design, implementation and operation of distributed backend services. Together with your team, you will build reliable, scalable systems that process large volumes of device data and power customer-facing products.

We are looking for someone curious, pragmatic and collaborative who enjoys solving complex problems, automating repetitive tasks, and continuously improving how the team works.

Your responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services, including tests and  technical documentation
• Deploy and operate services using CI/CD best practices
• Take end-to-end ownership across the full lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment and operations
• Monitor services and data streams and respond to anomalies
• Provide 3rd-level support and ensure service availability during business hours
• Review merge requests and design documents from teammates
• Participate in agile software development activities (e.g. planning meetings, reviews, retrospectives…)

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong experience with Kotlin or Java
• Solid knowledge of backend architecture, distributed systems and API design
• Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL (DynamoDB)
• Familiarity with messaging systems (Kafka, SQS, SNS)
• Experience building and operating containerized services (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS or Fargate)
• Solid understanding of software testing (TDD is encouraged but not mandatory)
• Curious and never afraid of learning to master new tools, technologies, and methodologies
• Fluent in English

Nice to have:

• Geospatial data experience
• Gradle knowledge
• Linux / Unix shell skills

Work authorization: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Portugal. Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas for this role.

Our Backend Stack

• Kotlin / Java 
• Apache Kafka 
• SQS 
• DynamoDB 
• CockroachDB
• Gradle
• Docker
• Kubernetes