Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This backend junior role sits close to the commercial engine of a subscription SaaS product, touching areas like plans and pricing, trials, payments, and onboarding. Those surfaces tend to be tightly coupled to identity, entitlements, and reliability, making the work a practical introduction to how product decisions translate into revenue and retention mechanics in SaaS. It is also anchored in a modern cloud stack, suggesting an environment where shipping and operating services are part of the day to day.
For a SaaS career, the value comes from learning how to build features that must be measurable, reversible, and safe to iterate on. Exposure to billing flows, lifecycle states, and customer onboarding creates durable domain knowledge that transfers across many SaaS categories. Working in a cross functional product team also develops the habit of aligning engineering choices with user experience and business constraints, a core skill in product led organisations.
This role will suit early career engineers who prefer collaborative development with clear product counterparts and frequent feedback loops. It also fits someone who wants to deepen backend fundamentals while gradually expanding into deployment, monitoring, and operational ownership in a cloud environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the role
You will join one of the talented product development teams to work on feature development, with a primary focus on the company's business growth, on projects such as the evolution of the company's plans and pricing strategy, the trial experience, the payment experience, or the onboarding experience of our customers. As a team member within the organization, you will collaborate closely with the product manager, product designer, engineering manager, and front-end engineers within the team. You will play a pivoting role in innovating the ways the team could deliver value to impact the company's trajectory, both in the short-term and long-term.
Location-Specific Information:
You will be based in Lisbon, with English as your working language. At Dashlane, we embrace a hybrid culture that combines the best of both worlds: the creativity and energy of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Our model is designed to strengthen team connections while supporting individual productivity and work-life balance. To maximize collaboration, we come together in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, while Wednesdays and Fridays offer more flexibility for focused work.
About our stack:
- Programming language:
- Backend (85% of codebase): NodeJS, Typescript
- Frontend / internal tooling (15% of codebase): React, Typescript
- Infrastructure and storage layer: AWS EC2, Amazon ECS, MySQL on RDS, Redis, S3
- CI/CD: Sonarqube, Gitlab, Terraform, Ansible
- Logging and monitoring: ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Documentation and tooling: Confluence, Jira, Zoom, Slack
At Dashlane you will:
- Innovate! As an engineering member, you'll work closely with the teams to discover creative solutions that drive the company's expansion. Your efforts will not only enhance the trial and payment experience for our customers but also enable us to significantly increase and broaden the reach of our application.
- Pair with other engineers, work with product managers, project managers, and also our quality engineering teams in a highly collaborative environment where everyone shares ownership of the company's success
- Learn every day, and share your knowledge with your co-workers.
- Participate in and propose cross-team initiatives for improving the happiness and efficiency of your fellow Dashlaners.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience in software development
- 1+ years of experience in developing backend applications, used by a reasonable amount of users
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team
- Willingness to learn and assist in the design and implementation of backend solutions
- Fluent in English
We're Also Looking For:
- Experience working in a product-focused company
- Willing to develop a T-shaped skillset
- Have prior knowledge of AWS
- Know how to code, but also to deploy, test, and monitor cloud applications
- Enjoy writing clean code that is easy to maintain and understand
- Ability to actively use AI tools to drive efficiency, creativity and impact in the engineering scope
What Dashlane offers you:
- Flex Benefits - allocate a monthly amount to a pool of benefits
- Health insurance covered by Dashlane
- 5 extra vacation days each year, plus your birthday off
- Company wide well-being days (one per quarter)
- Equal Parental leave - up to 20 weeks fully paid leave, within the first year of birth or adoption
- Work schedule exemption - plan your work schedule in alignment with your manager
- Donation matching program - Dashlane will match your donations to organizations driving positive impact in historically marginalized communities
- Access mental health services through Spring Health, available for you and your family members
- Team building & social events - weekly lunch in the office and monthly happy hour
- and much more
