# Senior Full-Stack Engineer

- Company: [Pixelmatters](<https://jobstar.asia/company/pixelmatters>)
- Location: Porto
- Remote: Yes
- Team: Engineering
- Employment type: Full Time
- Salary: €44K – €61K
- Posted: July 21, 2026

## Job description

**Pixelmatters is a digital product studio.** We’re a team of strategists, designers and engineers creating top-quality digital products.

Our **mission** is to empower businesses to achieve their full potential by creating top-quality digital products while fostering great relationships along the way. We envision a world where great user experience is the norm, not the exception, inspiring businesses and people to be at their best.

**We're looking for you**, a meticulous, curious, and adaptable Senior Full-Stack Engineer, who has the ability to design and deliver scalable, high-performance digital products across the entire stack. You combine deep technical expertise with strong ownership, contributing to the team by building reliable solutions and helping maintain engineering standards.

**Your role** will focus on designing, implementing, and evolving full-stack architectures using NestJS and React, deployed on top of **AWS**. You will participate in technical discussions and help ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and maintainable. You will be involved in all stages of product development, from front-end implementation and API design to database modeling, infrastructure, and deployment workflows. While the primary focus will be on back-end development, you’ll contribute across the full stack to help deliver the product end-to-end.

**Some of your day-to-day tasks** will include designing scalable front-end and back-end architectures, developing and optimizing APIs, implementing complex UI components, defining database schemas, improving CI/CD pipelines, reviewing code, and proactively identifying performance, reliability, and security improvements across the system.  
  
**Requirements**

* At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with strong experience as a Full-Stack Engineer.
* Proven expertise with NestJS and React, or similar JavaScript-based frameworks with the ability to make to make architectural decisions across front-end and back-end systems.
* Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, and engineering best practices.
* Solid experience designing and building RESTful APIs.
* Good knowledge of databases, including schema design, performance optimization, and data integrity practices (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).
* Experience optimizing data flow across the stack, including API design, caching strategies, and front-end rendering performance.
* Good understanding of front-end architecture patterns, state management, performance optimization, and component-driven development in React.
* Proficiency with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing across both front-end and back-end.
* Strong experience with Git workflows and collaborative development in multi-branch environments.
* Fluency with agentic AI tools (such as Claude Code or Cursor) as a regular part of your development workflow.
* Good understanding of English (written and spoken).
* Portugal residency and Portuguese language proficiency are required for this role.

**It would be awesome if you also have…**

* Experience managing GitHub repositories and governance (e.g., branch protection rules, code review policies, access control) is a plus.
* Interest in Developer Experience (DevEx) and creating tools and platforms that make developers more productive
* Previous expertise with .NET.
* Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and cloud environments (AWS).
* Experience with Docker and containerized applications.
* Knowledge of system observability, structured logging, monitoring, and performance profiling tools.
* Experience contributing to cross-project technical initiatives or architectural consistency.
* Passion for improving internal standards and engineering practices.

**Benefits**

* Quality-driven, inspiring, and collaborative work environment.
* Competitive salary and benefits, including health insurance.
* ClaudeCode account with generous tokens’ budget.
* We have a brand new office located at Porto’s downtown while continuing to back our [**“Remote as default, Office as an option” policy**](https://www.pixelmatters.com/blog/remote-as-default-office-as-an-option-our-remote-work-approach).

**Compensation**

* The salary range for this role is between €43,626 to €61,185 annual gross which includes meal, vacation, and Xmas allowance.

## Apply

[Apply on Pixelmatters](<https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pixelmatters/67466e38-fd01-4d3d-bfa6-1aa153bc5bb6>)

Canonical job page: <https://jobstar.asia/job/senior-full-stack-engineer-pixelmatters-porto-4b40d9b22d7c8503>
