With offices in London, Lisbon, and Porto, YLD is a product design and software engineering consultancy specialising in customer experience and disruptive technologies. We were among the first adopters of innovative technologies like Node.js, React.js, React Native, Kubernetes, and GraphQL, which are now staples for many businesses. YLD was also an early adopter of Design Systems as a service and founded Design Systems London, a non-profit community focused on design and product.

We leave your teams and tech in a better space by curating bespoke teams of cross-functional experts in software engineering, architecture, DevOps, delivery, design, product and data science to work alongside your teams through close collaboration and, where needed, pair programming or technical training.

We drive rapid iteration towards key business objectives, vision and chosen metrics, creating a long-standing product culture and delivery capability in each piece of work. 

We’ve helped companies like Bulb, Uphold, NewDay, GoDaddy, CondeNast, and many others, achieve technical product excellence. As a result, we enable organisations, regardless of industry, to become their most successful by creating and nurturing a culture that embraces experimentation and learning that lasts beyond the partnership. 

We are committed to the Open Source community, with almost 10,000 contributions across 500 open source projects. Collective contributions result in more robust, innovative and faster solutions, allowing open source communities to review the code and propose improvements that increase security and reliability.

We are also actively engaged in numerous engineering and design communities, supporting and organising the likes of ReactJS Girls and Design Systems London with both online and in-person events and conferences. 

Data Engineer

Develop infrastructure software for client data platforms and mentor junior engineers.

• As a Data Engineer in this role, you will be responsible for building core infrastructure software (pipelines, APIs, data modelling) as part of our client's data platform team.
• Your work will include instrumenting systems for performance, and enhancement throughout.
• You will work on ensuring these data offerings are to various internal & external stakeholders using secure authentication patterns.
• Your role will include choosing and implementing the appropriate technologies for scaling data access patterns, batch processing, and data streaming for soft real-time consumption while considering the unique domain knowledge of the client's business.
• As a senior collaborator on the team, you will coach & mentor other engineers to support the growth of their technical expertise.

Contract Data Engineer (Remote UK/EU)

Backend Engineer

• Responsible for planning, implementing, directing, and administering all aspects of the human resources function for the Mid-Atlantic Region
• Provide day-to-day management of the Employee Relations team

Senior Backend Engineer - Python (Europe remote)

Full-stack Engineer

• Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon and Porto.
• As a Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.
• A YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highly-skilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others. You’ll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects, both in terms of the product and the methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a test-first mindset (actually, writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming and nothing is released until we have a code review. You have a real passion for problem-solving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you.

Full Stack Engineer 

Frontend Engineer

Develop innovative software solutions for clients in a fast-paced engineering environment.

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products
• You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures
• Your day-to-day responsibilities will include crafting excellent products and collaborating with your team

Senior Full-stack Engineer (React/Node)

• Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon and Porto.
• As a Mid/Senior Software Engineer you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team-player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.
• A YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highly-skilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others.
• You’ll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects, both in terms of the product and the methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a test-first mindset (actually, writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming and nothing is released until we have a code review.
• You have a real passion for problem-solving, you are an active learner and get excited by working collaboratively with those around you.
• Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:
  - Architecting, designing, building, and delivering highly-available, always-on, zero downtime API products and solutions;
  - Collaborating with engineers, product owners, and other colleagues to seek exciting and results-oriented problems for delivering value;
  - Writing clear, maintainable code that will scale;
  - Contributing to production operation and monitoring of systems and aware of SLAs;
  - Learning, growing, and mentoring other engineers through code reviews and pair programming to accelerate their technical mastery;
  - Proactively looking for ways to improve team processes;
  - Driving good practices within your team, and making an impact on the whole department.
• You’ll be:
  - A T-shaped engineer, but will major in C#;
  - Product-oriented;
  - Focused on quality and will know what it means to ship high-quality code;
  - Self-motivated, proactive and always looking for ways to improve yourself, the team, and the product;
  - Diplomatic and emotionally intelligent, you’ll have the ability to listen and be open to others’ points of view;
  - A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
  - A genuine believer in diversity, fairness, and including everyone;
  - Legally able to live and work in Portugal.
• Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:
  - 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins);
  - Take-Home Challenge (~1h);
  - Technical Interview with our Developers (1h30).
• We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:
  - Growing every day;
  - Including everyone;
  - Relationships built on honesty and ethics;
  - Inspiring solutions;
  - Winning together.

Senior Backend Engineer (C#)

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products
• You'll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures
• You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player
• You have a real passion for problem-solving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you

Remote Jobs at YLD