At Beyond, we partner with people who want to design a better future.
We are a design and technology company.
We design and build products, platforms, and programs for the world's most ambitious brands; including Google, Snapchat, Facebook, Netflix, and Diageo.
We are a diverse group of designers, strategists, engineers, and wordsmiths who make things that people love to use.
Role Overview
- With a focus on creating innovative tech and delivering impactful experiences, we are dedicated to the seamless art of scalable software design and delivery and are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with experience working with Python and GCP to join our dynamic and diverse engineering team. As Backend is very important within the development lifecycle, you will take an active part in the delivery of transformative products for our clients.
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Beyond, you’ll:
- Actively contribute to the growth of Beyond's highly diverse and skilled engineering team
- Build your soft skills in collaboration, communication, and client relationship management
- Co-create and work with different team members across the project, program, and agency to ensure quality is embedded at both the process and program levels
- Gain knowledge in new business domains by helping build teams to design, develop, and deliver impactful solutions
Things that will make you stand out:
- At least 5 years of experience with Python, FastAPI, and other related tech
- Understanding of OO and MVC patterns, relational and non-relational databases, Test-driven development, data structure, and design patterns
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (App Engine, APIs, etc)
- CMS development
- Docker knowledge (usage, management, and deployment)
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Caching (Redis/Memcached)
- Experience with message queue architecture (RabbitMQ, Celery)
- Knowledge of security principles and how they apply to web applications
- Customer focus with the ability to translate technical language to a broader audience
- Experience working in an agency environment with agile teams
And in return, Beyond offers:
- A team of passionate people who genuinely care about what they do and the standard of work they produce
- We are a remote-first company, however, we have co-working spaces available to work from in both Lisbon and Porto.
- 25 days’ annual leave, Juneteenth, your birthday off, and a paid office closure between Christmas and New Year's.
- Health insurance
- 15 days paid sickness and wellness days
- A generous learning and development budget and an annual leadership development program
- A strong company culture that includes weekly meetings, company updates, team socials, quizzes, and celebrations
- In-house DE&I council and mental health first-aiders
Having been named among Sunday Times Best 100 Companies, we believe culture plays a large role in what we offer as an organization. We actively promote diversity in all its forms across our Studios and we proudly, passionately, and proactively strive to create a culture of inclusivity and openness for all our employees.
Beyond is committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to remove exclusivity and barriers and encourage new thinking and perceptions, in a space of belonging. It is not about race, gender, or age, it is about people. And without our people being their most creative and innovative selves, we are nothing.
