Senior Software Engineer (Java)(Hybrid)
Porto, Portugal
About Us:
A global SaaS leader for seamless digital document workflows, Nitro offers a suite of solutions for PDF, eSigning, identity verification and analytics supported by a best-in-class customer success and change management team. With more than 3 million licensed users and 13,000+ business customers across 157 countries, we serve 67% of the Fortune 500.
How We Work:
We aim to create an environment where talented individuals are empowered to excel. How we collaborate, innovate, and engage with one another is important to us. Our work is driven by 5 key principles:
- One team, One mission
Our collective dedication to Nitro's mission defines us. Together, we are building an environment where everyone feels like a valued part of something bigger than themselves. - Own it
We take full ownership of our actions and decisions. We empower one another to lead with confidence, creativity, and a solutions-focused mindset. - Accountable to our customers
We are dedicated to our customers and take our commitments seriously. We do what we say we are going to do. - Excellence in execution
Driven by passion and precision, we exemplify excellence in our delivery with innovative, top-quality results. - Be bold, fail fast, learn faster
We learn as we grow, dare to try, and bravely question. We are not chasing perfection but forever iterating towards it.
These guiding values shape our approach to work, fostering a culture where everyone is inspired to contribute their best.
Why Nitro Engineering:
Engineering is a critical function at Nitro, developing the products and services at the heart and soul of our business today, and helping us realize our vision of smarter documents in the future. We have an incredibly talented and diverse Engineering team that cares, with a strong culture that believes in building the right things and building them the right way.
The Role:
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the team responsible for customer identity and access management (CIAM), as well as the acquisition and renewal stages of the customer journey. The successful candidate will work closely with Business Stakeholders to grow product adoption and maximise revenue, while safeguarding how our customers authenticate at scale and improving the experience they have as they sign up, purchase, and manage product access and subscriptions across their organisation.
What you’ll be doing:
You will join the existing team and collaborate on delivering feature, security, scalability and resiliency enhancements to our existing Java and Scala code base. You will contribute to the design of new features. You will work cross-functionally with other Nitro Engineering teams and stakeholders to support the exciting enhancements coming to the Nitro cloud product suite.
What we’re looking for:
- Strong architectural thinking and ability to make strategic technical decisions that balance immediate needs with long-term sustainability
- Strong knowledge of, and professional development experience with, a JVM based language
- Experience building SaaS products, particularly in the AWS cloud
- Knowledge of event-driven concepts and architectures, with hands-on experience using Kafka
- Experience with container orchestration and deployment using Kubernetes (K8s)
- Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment practices, ideally using GitHub Actions
- Ability to drive project delivery from early ideation through to production deployment
- Commitment to software quality through clean code, testing and verification
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams and articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Why Nitro?
Along with our regular benefits and programs (including health, dental, vision, and retirement as standard), we are also very proud to offer a few additional initiatives to future Nitronauts:
Hybrid Work
Our team embraces the hybrid work model, appreciating its blend of flexibility and structure. We combine three days of in-person collaboration at our global offices in Toronto, Dublin, Antwerp, Porto, and Melbourne with the convenience of two days of remote work each week.
Benefits:
Nitro provides all employees with a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, dental and vision coverage, and wellness perks. We also offer pension/401k matching, along with many other country-specific benefits.
Nitro strongly encourages applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. We provide an accessible candidate experience and invite you to request any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond.
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