Lead Product Software Engineer (Go)

Location: PRT - Porto

Remote Type: Hybrid (8 days/month)

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the finance, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, health and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.

About the Role:

Join us as a Lead Product Software Engineer (Golang), where you will execute specialized software development tasks for the Kyte product. Your role will involve advanced coding, system design, and optimizing software solutions that enhance our products' performance and usability. Your expertise will ensure quality outcomes and drive technological innovations.

Kyte is a lightweight, user-friendly SaaS-based invoicing tool designed for freelancers, sole traders, and small businesses. It enables users to create and send professional e-invoices in seconds, fully compliant with digital invoicing regulations.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of the product architecture and features using Go (Golang), ensuring a scalable, maintainable, and high-performance user experience.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, product owners, designers, and frontend engineers to define and deliver new functionality.
• Continuously improve the codebase by identifying technical debt and refactoring opportunities during the implementation of new features.
• Establish and promote backend development best practices, including component architecture, state management, and testing strategies.
• Participate actively in Scrum ceremonies including daily stand-ups, backlog refinements, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
• Stay up to date with backend technologies and tooling to evaluate and introduce improvements where appropriate.
• Develop comprehensive and sophisticated testing routines and procedures, ensuring thorough software testing.

Skills:

• Professional backend software development experience
  Building and maintaining production-grade software as part of a product team.Prior experience with Go (Golang) is advantageous.
• Cloud experience
  Hands-on experience deploying and running applications in the cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• CI/CD familiarity
  Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and understanding how they are used in day-to-day development.
• Strong engineering fundamentals
  Solid understanding of software design, APIs, data modeling, and operational concerns.
• Learning mindset
  Ability and willingness to learn new languages, frameworks, and tools when needed.
• Openness to AI-assisted development
  Willingness to adopt AI tools to improve productivity and code quality in daily work.

Competencies:

• Senior software engineering experience in a full stack team
• Incremental refactoring within feature work
• Agile software development (Scrum, Kanban)
• Cross-functional collaboration and communication
• Code review and mentoring

What we offer:

• Impactful Work: You’ll be working on the core of our application, directly influencing how accountants manage financial data.
• Technical Challenges: Build solutions that scale efficiently to handle millions of documents.
• Collaborative Team: Work closely with product, support, and operations teams to deliver the best possible solutions with excellent user experience.
• Small but Strong Team: We value close collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

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Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a global technology company that makes a difference every day. Be the difference. If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.