Junior Software Developer

Commercial lines, personal lines and specialty programs are run as separate business units. Founded as a farmers' mutual in 1958, the company is now one of the larger mutual insurers in Ireland.

Role overview

This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. We need another Junior Software Developer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. Remote position. Most of the team is in Dublin, but nobody is required to come in. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

Essential duties and responsibilities

Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates. Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents. Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners. Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic. Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana. Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items. Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review. Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.

Qualifications

1+ years of professional software development experience. Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design. Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL. BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests. Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers. Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.

Salary range: €70,000 - €81,000 per annum

Why work with us

Health insurance for you and your family. Company pension scheme. 25 days annual leave. Income protection. Education support.

We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Marbleworth Insurance.