Back End Engineer

Accenture PLC; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contributions

Private health insurance

Employee share scheme

Discounted gym membership

2 days’ leave per year for charitable

Professional membership

Community events

Job summary

Accenture’s The Dock is seeking a Backend Engineering Lead to design, build, and deliver next-generation back-end solutions. You will own APIs, databases, and business logic, while mentoring juniors and shaping technical direction across Design, Product, Data, and DevOps teams.

Join a highly collaborative, innovation-focused environment in Dublin’s Grand Canal Dock, delivering scalable, secure systems and production-ready software for enterprise clients.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering software in agile teams and collaborating across disciplines.
• Proven ability to design and implement enterprise APIs and data services.
• Experience with relational, NoSQL, or vector databases.
• Proficiency with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and messaging/event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of cloud-native services on AWS/Azure/GCP and serverless compute.

Responsibilities

• Build APIs, databases, and business logic for scalable applications.
• Mentor junior developers and perform code reviews.
• Translate requirements into practical, architecture-aligned solutions.
• Collaborate with Design, Product, Data, and DevOps teams.
• Document architectural decisions and reusable components.

Skills

Python

Node.js

REST APIs

GraphQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

OAuth 2.1

Agile SCRUM

Education

B.Sc./B.Eng./M.Sc./M.Eng./PhD in Computer Science or related fields

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Back End Engineer @The Dock

About The Dock

The Dock is Accenture’s flagship R&D and Global Innovation Center, based in Dublin’s Grand Canal Dock. As an incubation hub for the next generation of AI and GenAI agentic solutions, The Dock brings together a global community of business strategists, designers, engineers, data scientists, and entrepreneurs.

Our mission is to solve some of the world’s hardest problems and create transformational products and services that help industries thrive in the face of unprecedented change. From shaping the future of work with intelligent systems to building breakthrough digital platforms, our team operates across the entire innovation spectrum, from exploration to real-world deployment.

At The Dock, we experiment boldly, collaborate openly, and build the future in real time.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Backend Engineering Lead to join our Technology Engineering & Analytics practice. At The Dock, you’ll be part of an innovation-driven team helping to design, build and deliver next-generation solutions—from early prototypes and MVPs to scalable, production‑ready systems.

As a Backend Engineering Lead, you’ll take a prominent role in technical discussions and contribute to designing, developing, and maintaining robust, secure, and scalable products. You’ll be responsible for building the APIs, databases and business logic that underpin new applications, ensuring they are performant and reliable.

You will act as a technical mentor, supporting junior developers and raising technical quality across the team through PR code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.

By engaging directly with clients and stakeholders, you’ll translate functional and technical requirements into practical solutions. You’ll document key technical decisions, architectural patterns, and reusable components to accelerate delivery and define technical epics with clear workload estimations.

Collaboration is central to the role—you’ll work closely with Design, Product, Data, and DevOps teams to deliver compelling, user‑focused products that balance innovation with long‑term scalability.

Desired experience & skills:

• Substantial experience working in an agile team to deliver software in a fast‑paced, highly collaborative work environment.
• Proven expertise as an engineer designing, presenting and implementing complex applications, enterprise level APIs, data and webservices integration.
• Experience in one of the following ecosystems: Python ecosystem (e.g. Python 3+, FastAPI, Pandas, PyTorch, LangChain) OR Node.js with one or more frameworks (e.g. Express.js)
• Relational, NoSQL & Vector databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Pinecone etc.)
• RESTful APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets, event/message‑driven & serverless architectures
• Cloud‑native services on AWS/Azure/GCP & serverless compute (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP Cloud Functions)
• Messaging & integration patterns (AWS SQS/SNS, Kafka, Azure Service Bus)
• Containerisation technologies and platforms (e.g. Docker, K8s, EKS/AKS/GKE)
• Experience with Agile development methodologies (SCRUM, Kanban, etc)
• Engineering practices & principles, e.g. OOP, functional programming, design patterns, unit and integration testing
• DevOps skills for code repository management on large, distributed teams (CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Azure Pipelines, GitHub, Infrastructure as code)
• Core understanding of Authentication and Authorisation principles and technologies (Azure AD, Active Directory, AWS Cognito, IAM, OAuth 2.1, OpenID Connect, JWT, Azure AD)

Additional skills we value:

• Fundamental knowledge of networking (OSI Model, VPNs,VPCs)
• Experience working with established technology platforms (e.g. SAP, ORACLE, Salesforce)
• Exposure to Generative AI/ Machine Learning/Deep Learning based solutions including model deployment and data pre‑processing
• Data engineering skills on Apache Spark, Azure Data factory, Apache Kafka, Data Bricks etc.
• Interest in Technology Architecture and Design Patterns

Education:

B.Sc./B.Eng./M.Sc./M.Eng./PhD degree(s) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, related fields or relevant professional experience.

What does Accenture, The Dock offer you?

Working at Accenture means joining a company that prides itself on being Truly Human. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package that includes:

• Pension contributions
• Private health insurance
• Employee share scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Emergency caring facilities
• 2 days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice
• Professional membership
• Community events

Please note that with all our roles, you should expect some in‑person time for collaboration, learning and building relationships with client, peers, leaders and communities. As an employer, we will be flexible as soon as possible to support your specific work/life needs.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent‑ and innovation‑led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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