Senior Backend Engineer — 35-Hour Week, AI Tools

MCS Group; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pension

Private medical

Dental cover

Optical cover

Death-in-service

Bonus up to 10%

Equity/ownership in Belfast team

Job summary

MCS Group is helping a growing Belfast team recruit a Senior Software Engineer. You will play a central role in a major platform programme, owning complex integrations and guiding the platform's future.

The role focuses on full-stack development with a backend lean, using React, Ruby and AWS, and offers significant ownership within an expanding Belfast team, with opportunities to work with US engineering counterparts and incorporate AI coding assistants throughout the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Six or more years of software engineering experience.
• Core stack: React, Ruby and AWS; ability to learn new tech.
• Practical experience with AI coding assistants is essential.

Responsibilities

• Building full-stack applications with a backend emphasis.
• Integrating with large-scale enterprise systems.
• Shaping architecture and technical decisions with senior engineers.
• Collaborating with product teams in Belfast and the US.
• Leveraging AI coding assistants throughout development, testing and delivery.

Skills

Full-stack Dev

Backend focus

React

Ruby

AWS

AI tooling

Job description

MCS Group is helping a growing Belfast team recruit a Senior Software Engineer. You will play a central role in a major platform programme, owning complex integrations and guiding the platform's future.

The role focuses on full-stack development with a backend lean, using React, Ruby and AWS, and offers significant ownership within an expanding Belfast team, with opportunities to work with US engineering counterparts and incorporate AI coding assistants throughout the development lifecycle.