Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and deploying scalable, high-quality software solutions. You'll leverage your expertise in AWS, Python, and AI technologies to deliver robust solutions while thriving in a fast-paced, iterative environment. You'll work closely with other engineers, QA, product managers, and cross-squad teams to bring features to life and continuously improve our systems.

This is a hybrid role – three days per week in our Barcelona office.

What You'll Do:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable solutions using Python, and AI-driven frameworks.
• Architect, implement, and optimize cloud-based solutions on AWS, ensuring security, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional squads to understand requirements, define technical solutions, and deliver business value.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices for software development.
• Build and integrate AI-powered features into our solutions to enhance product capabilities.
• Lead by example in adopting an iterative development approach, releasing features incrementally and improving through user feedback.
• Contribute to architecture and design decisions, mentoring junior engineers in the process.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business goals.
• Drive improvements in code quality, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with QA engineers to build robust testing frameworks and deliver high-quality software.

What you'll be working on:

We hire technically capable people so whilst we use the below technologies, we do not expect expert knowledge, you will be fully supported if you're able to demonstrate a technical and passionate mindset to solving complex problems:

• Python or Typescript for creating and maintaining APIs
• Python for developing AI solutions
• AWS – for most of our production infrastructure and data storage. We use a lot of Dynamo, Lambdas, Bedrock, ECS, SQS, SNS, and many others
• CDK for building infrastructure

You should apply if:

• You're comfortable working in a team that is fast paced and focussed on delivery to enable a quick feedback loop
• You have experience working on service-oriented solutions
• You're passionate about owning your code from inception through to it living and breathing in production
• You have strong experience working with cloud providers (AWS preferred)
• Experience with any of these languages is a plus: Python, C#, NodeJS (TypeScript or JavaScript)

Health and Safety Responsibilities:

• Fostering the safety culture leading by example.
• Following established safety procedures and reporting potential hazards promptly helps maintain a secure and efficient workplace.
• Participating in safety training sessions and adhering to preventive guidelines and procedures, the objective is minimizing risks and protecting yourself and the rest of your colleagues.

At Sage, we offer you an environment where you can grow professionally without compromising your personal well-being. Our benefits package is designed to provide stability, flexibility, and balance:

• Flexible benefits: exchange part of your salary and make tax savings on health insurance, meal and transport vouchers, childcare, and training.
• Well-being: Free access to the Calm app (for up to 5 users), 24/7 counseling, and emotional support from our Healthy Mind Coaches. We also offer self-care and parenting resources through the Cleo app.
• Flexible working: flexibility of working one hour in, one hour out, shortened workdays on Fridays and during the summer, and the opportunity to work from over 40 countries for up to 10 weeks per year through our Work Away program.
• Annual leave: 23 working days of vacation, 5 paid days per year for volunteering, and 5 additional paid days annually for personal or professional development.
• Extended leave: 7 extra days of maternity leave and 5 extra days of paternity leave, on top of the legal allowance, available after one year of service.
• Financial support: Life and disability insurance, salary advances of up to 3.5 times your net monthly pay, a €300 net marriage bonus, and access to Sage's employee stock purchase plan at a discounted rate.