Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Sylla

Written By Sylla General

Come and work with us at Sylla! We're looking for a senior full-stack engineer. Are you looking for a new full time position as part of a small, yet fun, highly motivated and ambitious team? Then get in touch. This is a key role at an important time for Sylla, as we're expanding our tech team to support our growing international client base.

AI is a core part of our product and everyday work, and where we believe it can be used to do good. At Sylla, we’re working everyday on making Higher Education more affordable, accessible and engaging. Through the Sylla platform, we make it easy for universities, colleges and their staff to make use of high quality free eductional resources at scale. By using the latest technology and techniques we make it easy to match these to their teaching and curricula today: creating an easier and more personalised experience for educators, enabling them to focus more time on teaching with resources at no or the lowest possible cost for their students.

Details


Must haves:

  • Deep knowledge of NextJS (and JS/TS/WebAPI)

  • NextJS/frontend testing expertise (Jest, RTL, Cypress, etc.)

  • Strong architecture skills for designing and implementing larger projects

  • Expertise in API/relational DB design

  • 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience

  • You became (or will become) a 10x engineer since you started using AI tools in your daily work (eg CursorAI, Claude/GPT)

  • Good understanding of AI techniques with hands-on experience in RAG and vector embeddings

Nice to have:

  • Experience AI agents and setting them up

  • Familiarity with AWS and serverless architectures

  • Experience with FGA

  • Experience with advanced data pipelines

Tech we use:

  • NextJS (App router & TypeScript)

  • Python

  • Redis & PostgreSQL

  • AWS Lambda, ECS, SQS, SES... we might use the whole alphabet soup of AWS services

  • QStash (serverless message queue)

  • Fine-Grained Authorization (Google Zanzibar)

Location: Preferably Lisbon (hybrid), remote possible. Relocation possible

Get in touch:

Please share your CV and a maximum 1 page motivation letter with Dennis Stander: Dennis.stander[@]sylla.io

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