Senior Software Engineer

Job Description:This is a hybrid role, requiring presence in our Dublin office three times per week. The Opportunity:At Workhuman, we’re on a mission to make work more human by helping organisations celebrate, connect, and empower their people. We’d love you to join our eCommerce Development team, where you’ll work alongside talented engineers, organised in Squads and based across multiple locations, to craft a seamless, engaging, and personalised shopping experience for our store’s end users.With an agile, sprint-to-sprint mindset and an ambitious roadmap, you’ll contribute to key initiatives such as advancing our AWS Personalization Strategy, optimising store search with OpenSearch, tackling UI challenges, modernising store technologies, and achieving release independence. This is your chance to shape how thousands of users interact with our platform, making every click intuitive, every journey effortless, and every experience memorable.As a Senior Engineer, you’ll work closely with our Principal Engineer and Squad members to scope and deliver impactful features. While most of your work will focus on Back-End development (Java), you’ll also have the chance to contribute to Front-End projects (React).Our Squads typically consist of 1x Principal Engineer, 3-4x Back-End, 1–2x Front-End, 1–2x QA, and 1x Automation QA and team members are spread across multiple locations. The Engineering Manager, whoyou’ll report into is based in Ireland.Our eCommerce Squads are close-knit, collaborative, and passionate about enhancing the store (supporting ~7million users) and we’d love for you to join us.Tech stack used by this team: Java17, Spring (Spring Boot, Spring Web Stack, Spring Data or Spring JDBC), RESTful webservices, Apache Camel, AWS, Terraform, API, Oracle, Postgres, NoSQL DB, PL/SQL, JMeter, Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Git, React, Docker/Containerization, Open Search, Kafka, Lambda.What we can offer you: An opportunity to work with distributed development team continuously delivering solutions that will enhance our SaaS platform capability.An opportunity to partner with our business team and be part of the design discussions/decisions as well as implementing the designs.An opportunity to contribute to sprint planning & backlog refinement sessions, daily stand-ups and retrospectives with our technology teams (Dev, Automated QA, UX/UI, Product)An opportunity to work with our DevOps and Architecture teams to move to a continuous deployment model.The skills you will bring: You have 5+ years experience as a full stack engineer with application design and development in enterprise applications with the following: Java, Spring (Spring Boot), AWS, REACTWorking in an agile micro service orientated development environmentYou are familiar with RESTful as an API design and common Batch Processing PatternsYou have good Database application development experience with Oracle/SQL or Aurora databases. You have experience with automated unit and integration testing You have experience/and are familiar with test driven developmentExperience working with AWS-based DevOps or CI/CD pipelines is advantageous — particularly if you’ve used tools such as OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch), Amazon MSK/Kafka, or AWS Lambda as part of infrastructure, monitoring, or event-driven architectures.You’ll have end-to-end ownership of features.We welcome input on how to improve our systems and ways of working.Achievements: You have the ability to mentor team members, sharing your knowledge and also work independently.Has represented the team in design discussions by presenting and defending proposed solutions to senior technical stakeholders such as Principal Engineers or Architects.You have collaborated openly with the team on shared items of work and communicated well in a team-oriented environment across locations.Benefits:25 days annual leave, increasing with years of serviceCompany plan VHI Health Care & Dental cover for employee and dependenciesA Pension commencing after probation periodParticipation in Workhuman’s employee recognition programsDiscounted gift certificatesDiscounted TaxSaver Travel cards/free car parking (subject to availability)Income ProtectionLife AssuranceAccess to our Tuition Reimbursement SchemeAccess to Workhuman UniversityAdditional ‘perks’ - Free grab and go breakfast and lunch options, fruit, tea/coffee, fantastic catered events and wellness activities throughout the year throughout the year etc