Tech Lead

Here you’ll contact with the European stock market area and will be able to work in a project for a leading global trading platform that knows the importance of surveillance issues and provides technology and managed services to third parties. You’ll also be able to experience a multicultural environment with a strong people culture, being on a team that is spread across several European countries, such as Denmark, Italy, Norway and Portugal.

We are looking for a Tech Lead to work in this project in Porto (Hybrid).

What are we looking for?

• At least 10 years of experience leading the design, development and operation of real-time data products;
• Advanced real-time data engineering expertise, including proven delivery of reliable streaming pipelines and services with Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, APIs, microservices and AWS;
• Good level of English Language.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and operate production-ready streaming data products and resilient pipelines across ingestion, processing, transformation and delivery for real-time and batch workloads;
• Use Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, event-driven architecture and appropriate schema management;
• Develop documented REST and OpenAPI-based APIs, microservices and streaming interfaces for reliable access by internal and external consumers;
• Use AWS services such as MSK, Kinesis, Managed Service for Apache Flink, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS or EKS, S3 and IAM to deliver scalable platform capabilities;
• Establish data quality controls, data models, schema governance, validation and automated testing for streaming and batch workloads;
• Implement CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or equivalent tools, including automated builds, tests, deployments and rollbacks;
• Provide observability using CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, structured logs, metrics, tracing and actionable alerts;
• Operate services against agreed SLAs through production monitoring, incident response, performance optimisation, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement;
• Produce technical designs, architecture documentation, API specifications, operational runbooks and deployment documentation;
• Lead technical discussions, review designs and code, set engineering standards, and share knowledge with less experienced engineers and business stakeholders;
• Apply security practices covering OAuth2/OIDC authentication and authorisation, encryption, secrets management, network controls and least-privilege access.

What can you expect from us?

• Health insurance;
• A personalised training plan, with a dedicated budget to invest in the courses and skills you want to develop;
• Regular feedback and ongoing support to help you grow professionally;
• Team events every semester, internal giveaways, birthday gifts, baby kits, an employee referral programme, and exclusive discounts with our partners.