Software Engineer in Test

About Equação IT

Equação IT is a company focused on boosting technology and solid solutions through our expert consultants leading a high perspective and adding value to our customers with the purpose of providing optimization and business growth to our partners.

We are looking for a Software Engineer in Test with the following requirements:

• Responsible for delivering metadata to the company's online and broadcast products. We support several large-scale programme metadata APIs and are currently building a new metadata.
• These teams rely on us to deliver metadata about programmes and short-form content quickly and accurately.

Why join the team?

We are two feature teams of around ten engineers each, working in a collaborative, agile environment. Our teams help define their own ways of working, drawing from industry best practices and internal experience. We value continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, business analysts, and technical specialists
• Participate in agile practices such as pair programming and test-driven development
• Contribute to the design and maintenance of our CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure
• Engage in architectural discussions and code reviews
• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code
• You'll be involved throughout the software development lifecycle, from design to deployment and maintenance

Skills and Experience

Essential criteria:

• Commercial experience (2+ years) in one or more of the following programming languages: Java, Python, Clojure
• Solid understanding of software engineering QA practices, including TDD and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience of building and deploying applications on cloud infrastructure
• Experience of working within established architectural patterns and technical direction
• Ability to demonstrate strong sense of ownership and accountability for your work

Desired but not required:

• Apache Kafka or other data streaming technologies
• Building and deploying containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes
• REST API design and development
• Data modelling and database design

Additional Information

• You enjoy working with others and value collaboration
• Years of experience: 2+
• Language: English C1
• Experience working in a multi-discipline Agile team.
• Python coding experience.
• Experience with AWS services.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks.
• Experience writing automated API tests.
• Pairing and performing code reviews.
• Duration: Long Term Contract.
• Location: Remote, Portugal.
• Candidates must be living in Portugal.

Location

• Todo o país, Portugal