Cpl
Senior Software Engineer
CplIreland10 days ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyInformation Technology

Senior Backend Software Engineer

📍 Location: Dublin, Ireland

🧑 💻 Hybrid Working (3 days office / 2 days remote)


We're hiring experienced Senior Backend Software Engineers for a global client in the digital audio and entertainment space. The teams are building large-scale systems that support millions of users, focusing on high-throughput services, distributed systems, and robust backend infrastructure.


What You'll Be Doing:

  • Develop scalable and resilient backend systems that support business-critical functions
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Engineering)
  • Drive backend architecture and system design discussions
  • Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code
  • Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and on-call rotations
  • Investigate and resolve complex technical issues in production


What You’ll Need:

  • 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
  • Strong experience with Java and at least one other language
  • Proven experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD, source control, and testing best practices
  • Hands-on experience with distributed systems in production
  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability


Nice to Have:

  • Experience with Scala and functional programming
  • Familiarity with asynchronous programming models
  • AWS experience (compute, storage, containers, serverless, etc.)
  • Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CDK
  • Worked with high-throughput distributed systems


Benefits include:

  • Fully paid healthcare (for you & eligible family members)
  • Life cover (4x base salary)
  • Pension contributions up to 8%
  • Disability cover (short & long-term)
  • 25 days annual leave + First Friday of every month off 🎉
  • 10 days paid sick leave
  • Maternity, paternity & adoption leave
  • Bike2Work & TaxSaver commuter schemes
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)


💬 If you're passionate about backend systems, love solving real-world scale challenges, and want to be part of an inclusive engineering culture, this could be a great fit.

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