Software Development Engineer (Mid to Senior Level) at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS); Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I in Dublin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to full-stack, data-intensive, analytics-driven applications. You will lead team-level design, APIs, and data flows, while partnering with architects to align with platform goals.

You will develop data pipelines using Databricks and Spark, and work on AI-powered products and agentic workflows. You will mentor engineers, optimize performance, and ensure secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions in a

Qualifications

• Full stack or backend software development is required.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience with Python, Databricks or Spark is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of TypeScript/React where applicable.
• Experience with cloud native apps on AWS/Azure and CI/CD.
• Ability to lead team level design discussions and guide implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead team level system design, APIs, data flows, and nonfunctional requirements.
• Collaborate with architects to align with platform goals and standards.
• Develop data-intensive apps using Databricks/Spark for scalable delivery.
• Develop and deploy AI-powered products and agentic workflows.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive engineering quality across the team.

Skills

Full stack/backend development

Java & Spring Boot

Python / PySpark

TypeScript & React

Microservices & RESTful APIs

Relational databases & distributed dat

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE or related field

Tools

Databricks

Spark

AWS

Azure

Job description

Career Overview

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

Job Type: Fixed Term (1 Year) Location: Dublin (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)

Careers at TCS: It means more TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Lead a team and their technical growth. ( for lead developers)
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders.
• Grow your career, while being exposed to new technologies.
• Work with a global customer

The Role

• Build innovative products that help businesses around the world unlock more value from their data. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to full-stack, data-intensive, analytics-driven applications that support sophisticated business experimentation and decision-making for some of the world’s largest organizations. You will:
• Lead team level system design, including high level design, detailed design, API contracts, data flows, service interactions, integration patterns, and nonfunctional requirements such as scalability, reliability, performance, security, and operability.
• Partner with lead engineers and architects to align team level implementations with broader platform architecture, modernization goals, engineering standards, and long term maintainability.
• Develop and optimize data intensive applications and analytics capabilities using Databricks, Spark, and related technologies to process and deliver data at scale.
• Develop, and deploy AI-powered products, intelligent agents, and agentic workflows utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, tool-calling patterns, and context-aware workflows.
• Implement advanced agentic systems incorporating planning, reasoning loops, memory management, grounding, evaluation frameworks, safety mechanisms, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across services, APIs, data processing workloads, and user experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor junior and midlevel engineers through technical guidance, pairing, code reviews, design feedback, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture by modeling ownership, clear communication, continuous learning, pragmatic decision making, and high standards for software quality.
• Improve engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, automated testing, secure coding practices, observability, performance tuning, CI/CD practices, and production readiness.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, service, API, data, and cloud layers, driving root cause analysis and implementing durable solutions that improve platform reliability and supportability.

Ideal qualifications include:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable, high performance, and reliable software in an agile environment.
• Strong hands on experience designing and building distributed systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, and cloud native applications.
• Strong programming experience with modern engineering stacks such as Java/Spring Boot, TypeScript/React, SQL, and related frameworks and technologies.
• Experience with Python, Databricks, Spark, or PySpark is highly desirable, particularly for working with data pipelines and analytics driven applications.
• Experience building or supporting cloud native applications on AWS and/or Azure, with familiarity in CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, observability, automated testing, and production support practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead team level design discussions, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and guide implementation through technical influence.
• Ability to translate product and business needs into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem solving skills with the ability to work through ambiguity, make sound technical decisions, and drive results through hands on execution.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is a plus.

Your Profile:

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Full stack or backend software development.
• Java and Spring Boot.
• Python / PySpark.
• TypeScript and React where applicable.
• Microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Relational databases and distributed data stores.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

• AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
• Automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and production readiness.
• Data intensive and analytics driven applications.
• Databricks, Spark, experience.
• Security, scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop and access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network. We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon and partner with our local communities in Ireland.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the Ireland Employment Equality Acts 1998-2011 (as amended) and the Equal Status Acts 2000-2012 (as amended). We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role.