Joao Alves
Senior Engineering Manager at Indeed Flex
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoao Alves is a Senior Engineering Manager with over a decade of experience building and scaling high-performing software teams across Europe, currently leading engineering at Indeed Flex from Lisbon. He blends hands-on Android and backend roots with a strong emphasis on psychological safety, trust and transparent processes to deliver reliable products in both co-located and remote environments. Joao has progressed from engineer to manager at fast-moving companies like Babylon, Skyscanner and Hopin, bringing practical experience in shipping mobile and distributed systems under tight timelines. He’s passionate about continuous process improvement and creating cultures where engineers can grow and experiment without fear of failure. Colleagues describe him as results-driven yet people-first, able to translate technical trade-offs into team-level development that sustains long-term velocity.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Engineering - Information Technology, Masters Computer Engineering - Information Technology at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
health9
jetpack-compose8
kotlin8
kotlin-android7
android7
coroutines6
nodes6
tinder4
video-recording4
reader3
pdf-document3
pdf3
android-development3
nodejs3
pdf-reader2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jcmsalves/firebase-playground
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
babylonhealth/android-playbook
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Babylon Health Android Team Playbook
Contributions:15 commits, 24 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year
android-teamhealthbabylonandroidkotlin
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