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Content Backend Software Develo... D-Orbit Lisboa, Portugal in Candidatura simplificada Salvar Qualifications and Requirements Strong experience in Python programming (at least 3 years): Knowledge of asynchronous programming: Strong knowledge about Pythons' unit testing frameworks (preferably pytest); Experience in the use of Cython library for generation of python extensions; Strong experience in Java programming (preferable experience in Kotlin): Experience in maintaining Java based web applications: Strong experience in C programming; Strong experience in the use and design of REST APIs; Strong experience on event-driven architectures (pubsub pattern); Strong familiarity with Git distributed version control system; Strong experience of the use of commandline of the Linux based operating systems; Strong experience in debugging distributed applications potentially running in remote environments: Experience in agile development methodologies (e.g.. Scrum, TDD); Experience with applications that handle large datasets: Experience in implementing caching mechanisms (i.e., using Redis); Experience in NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and Redis; Experience in relational databases, namely PostgreSQL: Experience using Kafka, MQTT and Redis as message brokers: Experience in cloud-based environments, namely AWS; Experience in the definition and use of Docker containers; Experience in orchestration of docker containerized microservices using Kubernetes; Some experience in working under DevOps oriented methodologies: Pipeline definition: Test execution automation; Some experience in web application development using the microservices architectural paradigm; Experience in designing web-based applications considering the need for scalability, reliability and security; Experience with Jira framework: Experience of bash shell scripting; Experience in JavaScriptTypescript: Experience in authentication and authorization mechanisms; Experience with event bus technologies (e.g., Kafka);

Professor: "It's semicolon; we will hardly use it." Fast forward two weeks and suddenly these freshmen are putting semicolons after every line of code like their grade depends on it. Nothing quite like the trauma of your first compiler error that could've been fixed with a simple ";". The irony is that after 10 years in the industry, I now use languages where semicolons are optional and I'm back to hardly using them. Full circle, baby.

The ultimate programmer dad joke that makes CS professors chuckle smugly. In Boolean logic, !false (the logical NOT of false) evaluates to true . So technically, the statement "!false is true" is... well, true. It's like the programming equivalent of saying "the opposite of a lie is the truth" but with syntax that makes non-programmers stare blankly while developers snort coffee through their noses.

Ah, the eternal JavaScript nightmare: NaN (Not a Number) - which ironically is a number type that doesn't equal itself. Because that makes perfect sense! The IEEE 754 floating-point standard really outdid itself here. "Let's create a special value that represents calculation errors but make it behave in the most counterintuitive ways possible!" My favorite part is JavaScript trying to be helpful: "You want to convert 'hello' to a number? Sure thing! Here's a NaN for your trouble. No errors thrown, just silent mathematical chaos." And then we wonder why our date calculations suddenly think it's the year NaN. The hex(983061) at the bottom is the cherry on top - it's 0xF00D61, or "FOOD A1". Even the hexadecimal is trolling us.

The epic handshake between frontend and backend devs represents the beautiful marriage of API contracts—the sacred agreement that lets both sides pretend the other one knows what they're doing. Meanwhile, the full stack dev is down there shaking hands with themselves, simultaneously creating and solving their own problems. It's the programming equivalent of marking your own homework and then wondering why the production server is on fire.

That special kind of heartbreak when your IDE highlights your beautifully named variable in angry red. You spent 20 minutes crafting the perfect descriptive name like userAuthenticationStatusTracker , only to have your IDE tell you it's undefined or reserved. Just another day where your relationship with your compiler is more emotionally complicated than your actual love life.