Release Engineer

About the role

ABOUT AIR APPS

At Air Apps, we believe in thinking bigger—and moving faster. We’re a family-founded company on a mission to create the world’s first AI-powered Personal & Entrepreneurial Resource Planner (PRP), and we need your passion and ambition to help us change how people plan, work, and live. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 2018—and now with offices in both Lisbon and San Francisco—we’ve remained self-funded while reaching over 100 million downloads worldwide.

Our long-term focus drives us to challenge the status quo every day, pushing the boundaries of AI-driven solutions that truly make a difference. Here, you’ll be a creative force, shaping products that empower people across the globe.

Join us on this journey to redefine resource management—and change lives along the way.

THE ROLE

As a Release Engineer at Air Apps, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth, reliable, and efficient release process of our applications. You will oversee versioning, build management, and deployment workflows, ensuring that new features and updates are delivered seamlessly to users.

Your role will involve collaborating with development, QA, DevOps, and product teams to streamline and automate release cycles, reduce risks, and maintain high standards for software delivery.

- This is a fully onsite position, based at our office in Lisbon, where you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in person and contribute to a dynamic and fast-paced environment. We are open to support with relocation efforts.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Manage and optimize release pipelines to ensure smooth deployment of software updates.

- Define and maintain versioning strategies, ensuring consistency across multiple environments.

- Coordinate with engineering, QA, and DevOps teams to ensure timely and stable releases.

- Automate and improve build, release, and deployment processes for efficiency and reliability.

- Monitor and troubleshoot release-related issues, ensuring minimal downtime.

- Maintain documentation for release workflows, rollback plans, and deployment strategies.

- Ensure compliance with security, performance, and quality standards in all releases.

- Work with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI) to manage automated releases.

- Implement and maintain feature flagging strategies to enable controlled rollouts.

- Analyze release performance and drive continuous improvements in deployment processes.

REQUIREMENTS

- Around 3+ years of experience in release engineering, DevOps, or build/release management.

- Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, ArgoCD).

- Strong understanding of version control systems (Git) and branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based development).

- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).