# Senior Software Engineer - Portugal

**Company**: Zego
**Location**: Portugal
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: €50K - €80K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Insurance

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zego/0b43b54f-7061-49d9-bf33-4fbddc7fe9a6?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_45cd0cd7-4f2

## Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data & Engineering team in Portugal. You will be working on solving complex problems with software that is reliable, well-tested, resilient, and observable.

**Responsibilities:**

- Solve complex problems with software that is reliable, well-tested, resilient, and observable

- Develop, test, deploy, and own Python microservices that deliver real business and user value

- Shape architectural decisions so systems scale without becoming harder to change

- Lift code quality across the team through reviews and clear, well-documented code

- Ship outcomes as part of a product team, working closely with engineers and Product Managers

- Improve how the team works and influence the direction of its strategy

**Requirements:**

- Proven track record building and maintaining backend systems and cloud microservices

- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming

- Comfortable with testing frameworks, debugging, refactoring, version control, and CI/CD pipelines

- Working understanding of SQL and document databases

- Ownership at pace, working independently, taking business and product ownership

- AI-first mindset, using AI daily, and willingness to learn and experiment

**Compensation:**

- €50,000 to €80,000 base salary

- Bonus and Share Options

- Benefits including private medical insurance, pension, generous holiday, and £1,000 a year to spend on getting to the office or learning something new

**About Zego:** At Zego, we're on a mission to do the good thing, not the insurance thing. Insurance hasn't changed much in over a century. The way we live, work, and travel has. We're building the real-time, AI-driven infrastructure that powers innovative insurance, so good drivers get cover that works the way they actually drive.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- backend systems
- cloud microservices
- data structures
- algorithms
- object-oriented programming
- testing frameworks
- debugging
- refactoring
- version control
- CI/CD pipelines
- SQL
- document databases

---

Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zego/0b43b54f-7061-49d9-bf33-4fbddc7fe9a6?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)