About the position
At Workhuman, we’re on a mission to make work more human by helping organisations celebrate, connect, and empower their people. We’d love you to join our eCommerce Development team, where you’ll work alongside talented engineers, organised in Squads and based across multiple locations, to craft a seamless, engaging, and personalised shopping experience for our store’s end users. With an agile, sprint-to-sprint mindset and an ambitious roadmap, you’ll contribute to key initiatives such as advancing our AWS Personalization Strategy, optimising store search with OpenSearch, tackling UI challenges, modernising store technologies, and achieving release independence. This is your chance to shape how thousands of users interact with our platform, making every click intuitive, every journey effortless, and every experience memorable. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll work closely with our Principal Engineer and Squad members to scope and deliver impactful features. While most of your work will focus on Back-End development (Java), you’ll also have the chance to contribute to Front-End projects (React). Our Squads typically consist of 1x Principal Engineer, 3-4x Back-End, 1–2x Front-End, 1–2x QA, and 1x Automation QA and team members are spread across multiple locations. The Engineering Manager, who you’ll report into is based in Ireland. Our eCommerce Squads are close-knit, collaborative, and passionate about enhancing the store (supporting ~7million users) and we’d love for you to join us.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to key initiatives such as advancing AWS Personalization Strategy and optimising store search with OpenSearch.
- Tackle UI challenges and modernise store technologies.
- Achieve release independence.
- Scope and deliver impactful features in collaboration with the Principal Engineer and Squad members.
- Participate in sprint planning & backlog refinement sessions, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Work with DevOps and Architecture teams to move to a continuous deployment model.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience with application design and development in enterprise applications.
- Proficiency in Java, Spring (Spring Boot), AWS, and React.
- Experience working in an agile micro service oriented development environment.
- Familiarity with RESTful API design and common Batch Processing Patterns.
- Good Database application development experience with Oracle/SQL or Aurora databases.
- Experience with automated unit and integration testing.
- Familiarity with test driven development.
- Experience working with AWS-based DevOps or CI/CD pipelines.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch), Amazon MSK/Kafka, or AWS Lambda as part of infrastructure, monitoring, or event-driven architectures.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave, increasing with years of service.
- Company plan VHI Health Care & Dental cover for employee and dependencies.
- A Pension commencing after probation period.
- Participation in Workhuman’s employee recognition programs.
- Discounted gift certificates.
- Discounted TaxSaver Travel cards/free car parking (subject to availability).
- Income Protection.
- Life Assurance.
- Access to our Tuition Reimbursement Scheme.
- Access to Workhuman University.
- Free grab and go breakfast and lunch options, fruit, tea/coffee, fantastic catered events and wellness activities throughout the year.
