Senior Backend Engineer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Headquartered in Dublin since 2013, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages.

About the role:

Looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. The Data Platform team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. This role is fully remote within Ireland. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Job duties:

• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.

What we offer:

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Company pension scheme.
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

You must have the right to work in Ireland.

Start: Immediately.

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