Senior Software Engineer

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.