CareerPlan

Founding Senior Software Engineer (Portugal)

PortugalFull-time2026-10-11 → 2026-11-09

Core

Architect and build core systems, integrating AI/ML models into production workflows for a platform that ingests and summarizes news, TV, podcast, and social media data at scale.

Role type

Founding Senior Software Engineer (Backend & AI/ML)

Builds

Core systems, APIs, and AI/ML features for a SaaS platform serving 200+ clients

Domain

Media intelligence, AI/ML, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Backend fundamentals, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, containerization, CI/CD, LLMs in production, RAG pipelines, embeddings, prompt execution, agentic systems, fine-tuned models, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Spark, Kafka, Flink, BigQuery

Preferred skills

Experience scaling production systems 10x, deep expertise in one or more technical areas (Data Engineering, Distributed Systems, AI/ML, Backend)

Technologies

AWS/GCP, Docker, K8s, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Spark, Kafka, Flink, BigQuery

Responsibilities

Architect and build core systems, integrate AI/ML into real-world workflows, design systems that scale, develop performant APIs and services

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC