Senior Software Engineer

IT Search; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Search partners with a growing connected technology company to hire a Senior Software Engineer for the platform team. You’ll work across distributed services, event-driven architecture and cloud infrastructure, designing and building backend services.

This hands-on role emphasizes system design, scalable, reliable and cost-efficient solutions, with collaboration across platform engineering and mentorship of other engineers.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building cloud-based products.
• Solid AWS background and serverless design experience.
• Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on design and development of backend services.
• Shape communication patterns between services and ensure scalability and reliability.
• Mentor engineers and improve shared engineering practices.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS

Serverless

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS Lambda

Job description

IT Search has exclusively partnered with a growing connected technology company that builds smart applications and digital experiences at scale.

They're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their platform team, working across distributed services, event-driven architecture and cloud infrastructure.

This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong focus on system design and architecture. You'll be designing and building backend services, shaping how services communicate, and making the architectural trade-offs that keep systems scalable, reliable and cost-effective.

You'll work closely with the platform engineering team, reporting into the Engineering Manager, with plenty of scope to influence architecture, improve shared engineering practices and mentor other engineers.

What they're looking for:

• Proven experience building and delivering cloud-based products
• Strong AWS experience, although other cloud backgrounds will be considered
• Experience building serverless applications, particularly AWS Lambda
• Solid understanding of microservices, distributed systems and event-driven architecture
• Experience working with APIs, databases, messaging and cloud infrastructure
• Exposure to LLM integration and AI engineering is highly desirable
• Comfortable owning technical design decisions and getting into the detail of implementation
• Strong engineering fundamentals around scalability, reliability, observability and performance