Pixelmatters

• Your role will focus on designing, implementing, and evolving full-stack architectures using NestJS and React, deployed on top of AWS. • You will participate in technical discussions and help ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and maintainable. • You will be involved in all stages of product development, from front-end implementation and API design to database modeling, infrastructure, and deployment workflows. • Some of your day-to-day tasks will include designing scalable front-end and back-end architectures, developing and optimizing APIs, implementing complex UI components, defining database schemas, improving CI/CD pipelines, reviewing code, and proactively identifying performance, reliability, and security improvements across the system.

• Your role sits at the intersection of design and engineering. • You'll build websites as systems of reusable blocks, assemble templates and pages from them, and prepare the CMS that powers them. • You’ll create the interactions, micro-interactions, and animations that make our work feel alive. • You'll work closely with designers to bring interactions and animations to life. • You'll be hands-on with code while keeping an eye on the bigger picture, understanding how your technical decisions impact the end product and the user experience.

• Your role focuses on interfacing with clients and internal teams to build excellent digital products. • You are open-minded, resilient, and self-driven with a passion for digital products. • You are a persuasive, clear, and empathetic communicator who values proactive, transparent communication with clients and collaborators. • You appreciate structured, well-organized processes while remaining flexible and able to adapt to each client's needs and context. • You are creative and organized — a strategist driven to make an impact. • Day-to-day responsibilities include active client communication, managing expectations and scope delivery, proposing strategic ideas to empower clients’ businesses, and acting as a bridge to our internal teams. • You will be responsible for defining scope and process specifications and negotiating these with clients. • You will also manage the backlog and devise strategies to tackle it together with Design and Engineering teams.

Role Description We're looking for you, a meticulous, curious and adaptable Staff Engineer, who has the ability to architect and guide the development of scalable, high-performance digital products across the entire stack. You combine deep technical expertise with strong ownership and leadership, acting as a technical reference across teams and driving engineering excellence within projects. Your role will focus on designing and evolving robust full-stack architectures using NestJS and React, deployed on top of AWS. You will play a key role in shaping technical decisions, guiding architectural discussions, and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and maintainable. You will also support teams in tackling complex technical challenges and help establish best practices across the engineering organization. You will be involved in all stages of product development, from front-end architecture and API design to database modeling, infrastructure, and deployment workflows. While remaining hands-on when needed, your role will also focus on providing technical guidance, mentoring engineers, and ensuring long-term architectural consistency across projects. Some of your day-to-day tasks will include: - Contributing to system architecture decisions - Reviewing complex technical implementations - Supporting teams in designing scalable front-end and back-end solutions - Improving CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure practices - Mentoring engineers - Proactively identifying opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and security across the platform Qualifications - 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with strong full-stack experience in JavaScript ecosystems - Proven experience working with frameworks like NestJS and React (or similar), with the ability to make and guide architectural decisions across front-end and back-end systems - Strong foundation in software architecture, system design, and engineering best practices, with experience building and evolving scalable systems - Experience designing APIs, data models, and efficient data flows across the stack, including performance optimization and caching strategies - Solid experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases, including performance tuning and data integrity - Experience working in cloud environments (preferably AWS), including designing and maintaining scalable, reliable architectures - Ability to work across teams, collaborating closely with engineering, product, and design to deliver high-quality solutions - Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to identify problems, drive solutions, and unblock teams - Experience mentoring engineers, providing high-quality code reviews, and raising engineering standards - Excellent understanding of English and Portuguese (written and spoken) Requirements - Experience with Docker and containerized environments - Experience with observability (logging, monitoring, tracing) and performance profiling - Experience leading multiple initiatives that span across multiple engineers or projects - Interest in improving engineering practices and contributing to company-wide technical direction Benefits - Quality-driven, inspiring, and collaborative work environment - Competitive salary and benefits, including health insurance - ClaudeCode account with generous tokens’ budget - Brand new office located at Porto’s downtown while continuing to back our “Remote as default, Office as an option” policy Compensation The salary range for this role is between €53,426 to €61,126 annual gross which includes meal, vacation, and Xmas allowance.