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# Staff Backend Software Engineer at Enhesa

- **Company:** Enhesa
- **Location:** Lisbon, Portugal
- **Posted:** 2026-01-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/enhesa/jobs/4110626009

## Job description

## Who we are

Enhesa is the global compliance partner to the world’s largest businesses, bringing clarity to a regulatory and sustainability landscape that never stops changing.

Our mission is to help organizations make informed decisions they can defend, wherever they operate, combining deep human expertise with AI efficiency, to confidently act across EHS, product, chemical, and corporate sustainability compliance.

Businesses come to us needing help understanding what regulators expect. We’ve built our services around solving that problem and work with more than half of the fortune 500, as a trusted provider of intelligence.

At Enhesa, our teams are guided by purpose, passion, inclusivity, and driving progress. We are united by a belief that positive change is everyone’s responsibility.

If these qualities sound like you, Enhesa could be your next career move!

## What we offer

- A competitive salary package
- Flexible home-working policy and work/life balance
- A collaborative fast paced, driven environment
- Accountability and pride for your projects

For more information visit: [www.enhesa.com](https://www.enhesa.com/)

## Overview of the position

As a Staff Software Engineer at Enhesa, you will work as part of a team of talented Engineers building modern applications that deliver value with quality to our global customer base, which includes many Fortune 500 companies. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology and accelerating our progress toward SaaS excellence by championing best practices, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams. At Enhesa, we prioritize our people, trusting them to deliver and investing in their growth.

Core responsibilities

- Writes clean, maintainable code which sets the standard for other engineers in their team using AI tools to assist;
- Regularly delivers high-quality, working software as part of a software development team;
- Builds a deep, expert understanding of their team’s codebase;
- Provides highly insightful, comprehensive code reviews with an eye towards bigger-picture concepts;
- Ensures documentation exists for all critical systems and writes technical guides used widely by other engineers;
- Helps define SRE standards so that teams can effectively monitor their applications in production and respond quickly to incidents;
- Drives technical decision-making at a high level, expertly identifying trade-offs and risks and considering organization-wide technical alignment;
- Effectively diagnoses the root cause of complex bugs using deep knowledge of both code and infrastructure. Provides a fix along with an automated regression test;
- Helps to provide direction and vision to our technical improvements;
- Mentors, coaches and empowers other engineers. Shares knowledge regularly through demos and presentations;
- Evangelizes effective use of Claude Code and other AI tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality.

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or a related field.

## Experience

At least 10 years working with .NET C#.

Required Technical Skills

- Expert (10+ years) C#.NET experience and expertise;
- Understanding of how to apply microservice architectures successfully, with expert knowledge of many patterns and techniques, including the tradeoffs of each. Experience working with microservices in more than one context;
- Significant (2+ years) experience with event-driven architectures and event streaming/messaging tools like Kafka (preferred), Pulsar, RabbitMQ, etc.;
- Experience using NoSQL databases - ElasticSearch (preferred), Dynamo, MongoDB, Redis, etc. Understanding of which database is best deployed depending on the use case.;
- Proven ability to identify opportunities for best practice improvements and drive change across multiple teams;
- Ability to tackle the most complex technical problems independently;
- Evidence of driving complex technical decisions involving multiple stakeholders in critical areas;
- Ability to pre-empt technical risks, raise awareness, and coordinate mitigation of the risk;
- Track record of quickly learning about complex architectures and code-bases and becoming an expert;
- Strong knowledge of deploying and scaling cloud applications, including use of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes);
- Experience working in an Agile environment;
- Technical leadership experience (3+ years), including mentoring other engineers. Examples could include leading projects or initiatives, leading a team, organizing engineering community events, etc.;
- Excellent understanding of how to deploy AI tools like Claude Code in their own work and across an Engineering organization.

Other Required Skills:

- Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate clearly and effectively, adjusting style depending on the audience;
- Able to work effectively as part of a team, contributing to the team dynamic and resolving conflicts constructively;
- Can quickly adapt and embraces change;
- Champion of continuous improvement;
- Shows initiative in tackling problems, executing pragmatically and making data driven decisions;

If you are ready to join our journey, please apply!

## Equal Opportunity Employer

Enhesa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

## About Enhesa

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Enhesa is the leading global provider of regulatory and sustainability intelligence, helping multinational companies navigate environmental, health, safety, product, and corporate compliance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Brussels, Belgium
- **Founded**: 2001 (formal inception; roots go back before 2000)
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Regulatory compliance intelligence, Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), product and chemical compliance, corporate sustainability.
- **Target customers**: B2B – large global enterprises, including half of the Fortune 500, plus manufacturers, chemical, pharmaceutical, automotive, and aerospace & defense companies.
- **Mission**: “To empower businesses to create a more sustainable future as a trusted, long-term business partner.”

## Products & Services
- **EHS Intelligence**: Track site-level EHS obligations, monitor compliance status, and manage risk across global operations (includes Regulatory Baseline, Requirement Center, Regulatory Guides).
- **Product Intelligence**: Monitor product and chemical regulations globally, with structured, searchable data (includes Chemical Assess, Regulatory Database, Safety Data Sheets).
- **Chemical Intelligence**: Assess chemicals faster, research substances, and manage supply chain compliance (includes Chemical Research, Supply Chain Connect).
- **Corporate Sustainability**: Stay ahead of ESG and sustainability legislation, track global requirements, and prepare for regulatory change (includes Sustainability Forecaster, Regulatory Forecaster, Legal Foundations).
- **Managed Services & Expert Support**: Outsource regulatory tasks to Enhesa’s analysts and specialists, plus professional development and certification services.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Serve 5,000+ customers, including half of the Global Fortune 500; monitor 400+ jurisdictions; 160+ in-house experts across legal and toxicology fields; 400,000+ substances tracked.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 35+ years of combined experience with AI integration; dedicated in-house AI team of 20+ specialists.
  - Recognized as a Great Place to Work (Brussels HQ) based on employee feedback.
  - Expanding global team – actively hiring across multiple roles and locations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary regulatory data**: Over 35 years of curated, expert-validated regulatory, scientific, and journalistic data.
- **AI powered by experts**: Purpose-built AI tools enhance speed and coverage without sacrificing accuracy, guided by 160+ in-house lawyers, toxicologists, engineers, and subject-matter experts.
- **Global breadth & depth**: Only provider covering 400+ jurisdictions at national, regional, and local levels in 60+ languages.
- **Trusted by the world’s largest companies**: More than half of the Fortune 500 rely on Enhesa for compliance and risk management.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first innovation**: Continuing to invest in AI and machine learning to broaden coverage, increase speed, and deliver predictive regulatory intelligence.
- **Sustainability leadership**: Expanding corporate sustainability solutions to help clients meet evolving ESG and carbon-neutral requirements.
- **End-to-end compliance**: Connecting upstream product and chemical data with downstream facility-level EHS and corporate reporting.
- **Talent growth**: scaling the global team to support growing customer demand, particularly in AI, product, and expert advisory roles.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: Employees directly contribute to enabling safer, healthier, more sustainable business practices globally.
- **Great Place to Work certified** (Brussels HQ), with strong emphasis on workplace culture, employee experience, and leadership behaviors.
- **Values**: Purpose, People, Passion, Progress – with a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (equal employment opportunity policy).
- **Career development**: Opportunities to “shape your own career path” in a supportive, team-focused environment; roles span lawyers, toxicologists, engineers, analysts, translators, AI specialists, and more.
- **Remote/hybrid**: Not explicitly stated, but global team across multiple countries suggests flexible arrangements. Brussels HQ is office-based with a certified culture.
- **Impact**: Work with the world’s largest corporations to make a tangible difference in environmental and social responsibility.

## Sources
1. [Enhesa About Page](https://www.enhesa.com/about-us/)
2. [Enhesa Careers Page](https://www.enhesa.com/careers/)
3. [Enhesa Homepage](https://www.enhesa.com/)
4. [Enhesa LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/enhesa)
5. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/enhesa)

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