The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineer who wants to bring their skills to bear and help shape and lead our new squad within Platform Engineering. The Platform Core Team’s goal within Workhuman is to support and enable our Product Teams to deliver work with considerable autonomy by also providing a robust and scalable platform

This role is for you if you have a passion for working with wide ranging technologies, get a kick out of architecting scalable and resilient systems, delivering well-designed code, and enjoy inspiring others to set high standards in technical excellence and delivering technology solutions which delight our customers.

Tech stack:

A long list including Java, AWS, Terraform, Spring, Spring Boot, REST, Apache Camel, ActiveMQ, Oracle, Postgres, Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Splunk, Git, Docker.

What we can offer you:

• An opportunity to work with highly skilled, passionate, collaborative and fun individuals across the Platform, Architecture and Engineering groups.

• You will work within an agile distributed team which will be mainly based in Dublin.

• An opportunity to architect the possible for our users, to innovate, to design new services and experiences.

• An opportunity to collaborate with our award winning UX, Product and Engineering teams to build the framework and deliver responsive experiences. In doing so, you will help this great company continue its amazing trajectory.

• An opportunity to promote technical excellence of delivery of new capabilities, which meet market needs, and support our rapidly growing business.

• An opportunity to set and communicate the overall Architecture strategy for our Platform Engineering features.

• Be central to laying the foundations to the path ahead, working with Product Managers to Understand business objectives, identify potential solutions and reduce uncertainty.

• Support Software and Senior Software Engineers as required as they both learn from you and challenge you to succeed.

• Involved in influencing the direction of our product strategy.

The skills you bring:

• You have hands-on experience in agile software development, with a track record of delivering high quality, scalable, performant and secure client-facing applications.

• You have strong experience in system design and architecting web and cloud-based solutions. You have a deep knowledge of non-functional requirements and are comfortable building reliable, maintainable, testable, accessible and observable software.

• You have a strong background in Java or other object-oriented programming languages.

• You are proficient with developing software with Relational Databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.). Experience working with Non-Relational Databases (e.g., Redis, DynamoDB, etc.) is a plus.

• You have hands-on experience with some of the following AWS services - ECS Fargate, ECR, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, AWS Batch, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeArtifact.

• You have extensive experience with automated unit and integration testing.

• Ideally, you have knowledge and experience with Infrastructure Automation and working with CI/CD pipelines.

Achievements:

• You are comfortable working with different Architecture Styles and Patterns (REST, Microservices, Event-Driven Architectures, Domain-Driven Design, etc.).

• You have a keen interest in emerging technology trends.

• You have proven the ability to embrace new technologies quickly and are adept at helping others understand them.

• You communicate with others across the business to collaborate and align on key topics and business strategy, to ensure our teams are always working toward shared goals.

• You listen attentively and actively, building on others' opinions, avoiding early judgements, and using radical candor when expressing your opinion.

• You foster a culture of Innovation and curiosity in your team, empowering everyone to contribute.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave, increasing with years of service

• Company plan VHI Health Care & Dental cover for employee, partner and children

• Pension commencing from day one and matched up to 5% after the probation period.

• Income Protection

• Life Assurance

• We live our values and that includes being super-users of our own recognition program, Workhuman Spark®.

• Discounted gift certificates

• Discounted TaxSaver Travel cards/free car parking (subject to availability)

• Access to our Tuition Reimbursement Scheme

• Access to Workhuman University

• Workhuman employees are offered up to one paid day volunteering per year.

• Access to a fully equipped, state of the art onsite gym and fitness area wit shower facilities

• Ability to participate in onsite regular gym classes led by professional instructors including spin, yoga, and HIIT

• The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is a confidential service available to all Workhuman employees from your first day of employment and is free of charge.

• Free breakfast cereal, fruit, pastries, tea/coffee, lunch, fantastic catered events throughout the year etc.

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