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Senior Backend Developer
StardustLabs
🌏 Remote (Portugal)
📅 Full-time
📁 Engineering
Posted: 2026-06-04

About the Role

StardustLabs is a fast-growing technology company building engineering tools for modern teams. We are fully distributed and passionate about solving hard problems at scale. As a Senior Backend Developer, you will play a key role in shaping our culture from anywhere in the world.

What You'll Do:
- Contribute to engineering roadmap planning and sprint execution
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts
- Identify and address technical debt to keep the codebase healthy
- Improve system reliability, performance, and observability
- Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code
- Collaborate with product and design teams to define technical requirements
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs

What We're Looking For:
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to drive technical decisions with long-term impact
- Proven track record of delivering complex, high-impact projects
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience
- Experience mentoring junior and mid-level team members

What We Offer:
- Company-wide team retreats twice per year
- Health, dental, and vision insurance (or stipend for international hires)
- Parental leave and family-friendly policies
- Home office setup stipend ($500-$1,000)
- Unlimited PTO and company-wide recharge days

To apply, send your resume and a short note about why you are excited about this role. We review every application and respond within 5 business days.

Required Skills

GCPAzureGraphQLTerraformGoRust

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Salary Range
$120k-$160k
Per year • Remote