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Backend Engineer (Python or Go) | Lisbon

TransPerfect

Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal2 months ago
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Job Type

full time

Description

Our Unbabel division is seeking a motivated Software Engineer to join our team, as we expand our ability to deliver seamless, scalable cross-platform translation capabilities to our enterprise partners. You’ll drive forward the development, maintenance, and expansion of core backend services that power smooth, intelligent language solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Plan and implement reliable architectures and core services.

  • Build, maintain, and optimize codebases in a testable and efficient manner.

  • Develop, optimize, and support critical services, infrastructure, and applications in production environments.

  • Help evolve our architecture for scale, resilience, and performance.

  • Break down complex problems and prioritize technical initiatives with product and engineering teams.

  • Champion a culture of continuous improvement, automation, code quality, and architectural best practices.

  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with rapidly changing business and technical needs.

  • Respond collaboratively to platform and service challenges, employing rapid troubleshooting and prototyping when necessary.

Must Haves:

  • 2+ years of backend engineering experience with Python or Go

  • Experience building APIs or system integrations (REST and/or gRPC)

  • Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. Postgres, MongoDB)

  • Proven ability to write clean, well-tested code; competence in test automation; familiarity with secure and maintainable architecture

  • Experience working in Agile development environments

  • Strong English communication skills

  • Collaborative mindset with attention to detail, proactive attitude, and eagerness to learn

Nice to Haves:

  • Experience with Python frameworks (FastAPI, Flask).

  • Contributions to ML/NLP projects or personal projects demonstrating AI engineering capabilities.

  • Familiarity with microservices architecture and Kubernetes.

  • Past work building, operating, and monitoring production services.

  • DevOps exposure, especially in AWS, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).

  • Hands-on experience instrumenting metrics and alerts (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty).

This position offers:

  • A significant role in a dynamic, well-functioning software development division with the world's largest provider of language services and technology solutions

  • An opportunity to have real impact in product direction and development

  • Advantages of working in a team of subject matter experts that develop cutting-edge web applications

  • Significant room for growth

  • Great financial rewards

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Skills

flaskautomationprototypingpythonapisgrpcpostgresqlmongodbagilefastapinlpmicroservicesmonitoringawsci/cdterraformprometheusgrafanapagerdutysystem integrationrelational databasestest automation

About TransPerfect

TransPerfect is a company operating in the legal services industry, specializing in eDiscovery and related production services. It provides support for electronic discovery processes including identifying, collecting, and producing electronically stored information for legal proceedings.

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