Senior Software Engineer

Location: Ireland, Midlands Innovation and Research Centre, Dublin Road,

Athlone

Type: Full-time

Team: R&D

Reports to: Head of Engineering

🔍 About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Bertie (mybertie.ai), you’ll lead key projects across our AI-first venture development platform, help shape our architecture, design/build AI Agents and mentor peers. You’ll build and scale features across our stack—from React-based interfaces to Node.js, TypeScript and Azure. We’re remote-first, async-heavy, and proud of our collaborative, documentation-driven culture.

🛠 Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain core features across our web and backend platforms.
• Lead technical design reviews and participate in roadmap planning.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to onboarding.
• Experiment with and integrate AI capabilities (OpenAI, LangChain, etc.) for real user impact.
• Ensure quality through testing (Vitest), code reviews, and secure practices.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering peers via Confluence, Jira, and Slack.

✅ Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in full-stack development (Node.js + React).
• Strong command of TypeScript, networking protocols (HTTP(S)/RESTful web services/GraphQL), and relational databases (PostgreSQL).
• Familiarity with modern Node.js frameworks, and deployments using cloud services.
• Experience about building secure cloud applications. 
• Passion for AI and experience integrating tools like OpenAI APIs, LangChain, or similar.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and remote working skills.
• Experience mentoring or leading small teams.

💎 Nice to Have

• Previous startup or fast-paced environment experience.
• Contributions to OSS or technical writing.