Senior Back-end Developer - LovelyStay.com｜Meet.jobs

LovelyStay is bringing innovative technology and a sharp business model into the short and mid-term rental market, offering a complete management solution for a competitive fee starting at only 10%. While optimising profitability through a daily automated algorithm, we also put emphasis on full transparency thanks to a unique dashboard dedicated to owner centralizing all the information about the flats. This tool is accessible 24/7 from any device.

We are looking for motivated back-end web developers, that enjoy working with state of the art technologies and develop solutions from the ground-up. All our software was developed in-house, with full stack control.

Our current product uses Typescript on the NodeJS backend, tightly coupled to a PostgreSQL database. We prefer parameterized SQL to an ORM.

Main Purpose of the role

• Be one of the senior developers of our product, with a deep understanding of all the technical solutions implemented;
• Test focused, makes sure no new functionality goes to production without proper tests;
• Development of new functionality;
• Maintenance and improvement of existing code and architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and actively contribute to the existing software architecture;
• Follow recommended software development best practices, from helping to clearly define the requirements, plan the development, implement, test, and re-iterate whenever needed;
• Maintain a desirable equilibrium between quality code and speed of development. Your code needs to be understood by all. You need to make sure you understand everybody’s code;
• Tests – whether you are a TDD enthusiast or not, you need to clearly understand the need for tests and have experience implementing them;
• Responsibility: your job does not end when you commit – you need to follow through to make sure all the changes and features added really fit the requirements, and adjust accordingly;
• Team work – experience leading teams is a plus. We strongly appreciate autonomous persons, but effective team work capabilities are a requirement.

Main requirements

• At least 2 to 3 years experience with the technologies requested or similar
• Typescript - or good experience with strongly typed languages
• Experience with relational databases - PostgreSQL preferable
• GIT
• Fluent English (both written and spoken – we are an international team)
• Autonomous worker when needed, always a team member
• Result oriented

Nice to have

• Functional programming
• Security knowledge
• Team leader

Perks

• Health Insurance
• Nice location on Beautiful Lisbon Downtown
• Free coffee
• Competitive salary based on experience