Staff Software Engineer - Client Apps

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits.

At Dolby, we innovate in the space of audio and video experiences. This often blends with various technology pieces around the whole stack. Even though this position requires software development skills around application layer, we are looking for a passionate technologist, who is open to working with multimedia (audio & video) processing pipeline. If you have a passion for signal processing, acoustics, imaging, or Machine Learning (models design and training) we are always looking for more of such people! In such cases, pure Apps development might be just a part of your work and just a step in your career at Dolby.

The role 

You will provide senior technical leadership for how client-side applications are designed, built, and evolved across products and platforms.

As a Staff Software Engineer, your impact goes beyond individual features or a single codebase. You influence architecture, technical direction, engineering standards, and how teams approach problem-solving, while remaining hands-on in the most critical areas.

This role provides technical leadership across a wide range of client applications, including mobile apps, demo or reference applications (e.g., desktops, TV environments, car dashboards), and prototypes built for new platforms or form factors.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role, focused on long-term technical ownership and leadership.

What We Offer 

• A role where you actively shape architecture, technical standards, and long‑term engineering direction.
• The opportunity to shape client applications across multiple platforms and environments, not only traditional Web apps.
• A collaborative engineering culture that values technical judgment, clarity, and sustainable design.
• Modern engineering workflows, including CI/CD, automation, and AI-assisted software development.
• Work that spans production applications, demo experiences, and prototypes used to explore new ideas and platforms.
  
  

What You Will Do 

• Act as a technical leader for client applications, influencing architectural and technical decisions across web, mobile, demo, and cross-platform applications.
• Own and evolve core architectural areas or shared subsystems, balancing scalability, reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
• Provide technical leadership across teams using different technologies and languages, even when you are not the primary hands-on contributor in each of them.
• Lead complex technical discussions and decisions, especially where trade-offs are non-obvious, cross-platform, or long-term.
• Remain hands‑on where direct technical involvement is required. Setting the bar for code quality, system design, and technical rigor.
• Actively leverage AI-assisted development tools in daily work (e.g., design exploration, code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging, analysis).
• Support delivery of non-standard client apps (demos, reference implementations, prototypes) for environments like TVs and automotive dashboards.
• Partner with QA and product on testability, automation, and release readiness.
• Identify systemic technical risks early and lead initiatives to address them.
  
  

Required

What you bring 

• Strong experience building and operating client applications in at least one major client stack (web, mobile, or native).
• Ability to lead architectural decisions across platforms and teams working in different client stacks and languages.
• Solid understanding of client performance, debugging, and production reliability.
• Experience with CI/CD, automation, and quality-focused delivery.
• Proven ability to shape architecture and engineering practices beyond a single team.
• Strong system-level thinking: balance near-term delivery with long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Experience influencing senior engineers via design reviews, architectural guidance, and complex decision-making across platforms.
• Comfortable using AI tools in day-to-day engineering and guiding responsible adoption where they add real value.
  
  

Tech landscape (varies by product)

• Mobile (examples): iOS/Swift; Android/Kotlin
• Web (examples): JavaScript/TypeScript
• Cross-platform (where applicable): React Native, Flutter
• Engineering: CI/CD, automated testing, debugging and performance tooling
  
  

Nice to have

• We’re looking for multi-platform technical leadership; depth in one client stack is expected, breadth across others is a plus.
• Experience collaborating with mobile/native teams (e.g., Android/Kotlin, iOS/Swift) and cross-platform frameworks (e.g., React Native, Flutter) is valued.
• Deep hands-on expertise in all of these is not required; this role emphasizes technical leadership and architectural decisions.
  
  

Dolby Hiring Entity:

77 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Block C

Grand Canal Docklands

Dublin D02 VK60

Ireland