Senior Staff Engineer

🕒 August 4

🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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ZigZag Global

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

Logistics • Marketing • Consulting

ZigZag Global is a returns-management platform and service provider for retailers that offers a white‑label returns portal, global carrier network, returns hubs (validation, grading, consolidation), and integrations (Shopify and other tech partners). The company provides SaaS tools and operational logistics to help retailers reduce returns costs, recover revenue through paid returns, live exchanges, refund-to-store-credit, and return-to-store options, while improving customer experience and sustainability reporting.

📋 Description

• Develop a coherent technology strategy aligned with organizational goals and product priorities • Ensure architectural decisions for key product initiatives align with objectives • Manage incidents and ensure service reliability • Set and measure service level objectives • Maintain and evolve recovery plans • Evolve application observability and monitoring • Implement and oversee backend quality assurance and security processes • Oversee and optimize cloud infrastructure and resource allocation during peak periods • Refine CI/CD and code review processes to improve productivity, efficiency, quality, and security • Evaluate switching from a worker-based approach to an event-driven approach • Pair with squad developers on day-to-day product work to share knowledge and practices • Contribute to technology and product initiatives • Troubleshoot unexpected issues affecting business operations • Collaborate with cross-functional business teams to identify and communicate technical constraints • Define and model best practices and standards for backend and infrastructure technical excellence • Drive backend systems and infrastructure development, reliability, and scalability • Help unify ZigZag’s post-purchase and returns products into a seamless offering

🎯 Requirements

• Experienced Senior Staff Engineer in backend and infrastructure • Deep experience in cloud architecture and infrastructure, ideally GCP; Azure or AWS also considered • Very good understanding of Ruby and Ruby on Rails • Expertise managing infrastructure with emphasis on scalability and reliability • Experience calmly addressing incidents of various types and impacts • Fluent in English • Strong French advantageous • High willingness and ability to transmit knowledge • Curious and keeps up to date with industry novelties • Strong background across multiple environments and products, with ability to navigate and optimize complex distributed systems a plus • Must already be living in Portugal • Must have legal right to work in Portugal without visa sponsorship • CV must be submitted in English

🏖️ Benefits

• 22 days’ annual leave plus public holidays • Additional holiday entitlement for each completed year of service, up to six extra days • Extra day off on your birthday • Additional healthcare insurance with dental service • Meal card - Edenred • Collaborative working environment • Diverse and inclusive workplace • Salary range shared prior to the interview stage • Meritocracy over hierarchy • Applications welcomed from people of all backgrounds and experiences