Senior Backend Engineer

A Senior Software Engineer responsible for backend features, with deep technical understanding and experience in SaaS products within a hyper-growth startup environment.

Location: Ireland

Responsibilities

• Autonomously deliver beautiful & robust code with considerations on code structure design and scalability.
• Implement and optimize data storage solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Python.

Requirements

• Strong sense of ownership & strong problem-solving skills.
• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Solid experience with MongoDB and Redis for data management.
• Experience building & managing message queue systems at scale.
• Writing testable, effective and communicative code.
• Data modeling, design patterns, understanding trade-offs.
• Deep understanding of API design principles, including security, versioning, and performance.
• Data & application security knowledge and skills.
• Experience in integrating with third-party systems.
• Competent with source code control and CI/CD pipeline technologies.
• Architecting and building highly available, scalable, secure & performant systems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive private medical and dental cover through Bupa.
• 24/7 mental health, coaching and wellbeing support through Sonder.
• £100/month Healthy Heidi’s stipend.
• Global parental leave.
• Fertility support.
• Learning & development.
• Home office budget.
• Recharge days after major milestones and busy periods.
• Work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.
• Clinical leave.
• Flexibility that works.

Additional Information

• Originally posted on Himalayas