Senior Software Engineer (Crawler) Lisboa

Senior Software Engineer (Crawler)
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Our Opportunity

Snyk, a leader in developer security, has acquired Probely, a modern Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) provider based in Portugal, with coverage of API security testing and web applications.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Snyk, you'll be at the forefront of building the future of application security. You’ll be challenged to create
- performance, reliable, and scalable services while collaborating closely with
- functional teams. We’re looking for individuals who are passionate about crafting exceptional software, solving complex problems, and driving innovation.

You’ll Spend Your Time:

• Analyzing, designing and implementing
  - quality solutions to problems with
  - tested, maintainable code.
• Building systems with the
  - term in mind, focusing on good design, robust testing, and sustainability from the perspective of cost and scale.
• Supporting our customers by resolving bugs and customer support escalations.
• Designing solutions to problems which typically require multiple engineers to implement.
• Demonstrating
  -
  - end ownership for the delivery of key efforts, and leading peers in the delivery of particularly broad efforts as a technical lead.
• Providing mentorship to more junior engineers, and playing a role in growing the next generation of engineers at Snyk.

What You’ll Need:

• At least 5 years of commercial experience as a Software Engineer.
• Experience in
  - scale software systems design, and familiarity with fundamental computer science concepts (algorithms, complexity, data structures).
• Proficiency in at least one of our core programming languages (Go, Type
  Script), and a willingness and enthusiasm for learning new languages and technologies.
• Experience in at least one of:
• Building highly reliable, scalable microservice
  - ends for web APIs or applications, or other types of
  - scale, high reliability systems.
• Building web UIs, CLIs or APIs for use by other engineers.
• Building infrastructure or platform automation, or observability or release tools.
• Demonstrable skill in effective software testing.
• Strong commitment to code quality, and the value of giving and receiving feedback through code reviews.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, and respond with agility when requirements and priorities change.
• Effective communicator both verbally and in writing. Able to work collaboratively, be curious and have a growth mindset.
• Ability to lift the performance of a team through coaching and mentoring of more junior engineers.

We’d be Lucky if You:

• Enjoy working on early stage products; talking with customers to identify, prioritize and solve problems iteratively and build something that they really love.
• Feed off complex technical problems and find solutions where others see roadblocks.
• Embrace challenges and learn from them.