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Pixelmatters

Where good is not good enough. ⚡️ Crafting top-notch digital products.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Location

Portugal

Posted

7 days ago

Salary

€43.6K - €61.2K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishPortugueseAWSJavaScriptMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLReactRedis

Job Description

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

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.

Job Requirements

  • At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with strong experience as a Full-Stack Engineer.
  • Proven expertise with NestJS and React, or similar JavaScript-based frameworks with the ability to make to make architectural decisions across front-end and back-end systems.
  • Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, and engineering best practices.
  • Solid experience designing and building RESTful APIs.
  • Good knowledge of databases, including schema design, performance optimization, and data integrity practices (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).
  • Experience optimizing data flow across the stack, including API design, caching strategies, and front-end rendering performance.
  • Good understanding of front-end architecture patterns, state management, performance optimization, and component-driven development in React.
  • Proficiency with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing across both front-end and back-end.
  • Strong experience with Git workflows and collaborative development in multi-branch environments.
  • Fluency with agentic AI tools (such as Claude Code or Cursor) as a regular part of your development workflow.
  • Excellent understanding of English and Portuguese (written and spoken).

Benefits

  • Quality-driven, inspiring, and collaborative work environment.
  • Competitive salary and benefits, including health insurance.
  • ClaudeCode account with generous tokens’ budget.
  • We have a brand new office located at Porto’s downtown while continuing to back our “Remote as default, Office as an option” policy.

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