Senior Software Engineer Front End

Workhuman•Dublin, TX

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

Senior Software Engineer This is a hybrid role onsite 3 days per week in our Dublin office in Parkwest The Opportunity: 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 Front- end 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. Tech stack used by this team: JavaScript React, Java 17, Spring (Spring Boot, Spring Web Stack, Spring Data or Spring JDBC), RESTful webservices, Apache Camel, AWS, Terraform, API, Oracle, Postgres, NoSQL DB, PL/SQL, JMeter, Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Git, React, Docker/Containerization, Open Search, Kafka, Lambda. What we can offer you: An opportunity to work with distributed development team continuously delivering solutions that will enhance our SaaS platform capability. An opportunity to partner with our business team and be part of the design discussions/decisions as well as implementing the designs. An opportunity to contribute to sprint planning & backlog refinement sessions, daily stand-ups and retrospectives with our technology teams (Dev, Automated QA, UX/UI, Product) An opportunity to work with our DevOps and Architecture teams to move to a continuous deployment model.

Requirements

Ideally, 6+ years of front-end development experience
You have experience with JS, React framework
Working in an agile micro service orientated development environment
You are familiar with RESTful as an API design and common Batch Processing Patterns is an advantage
You have experience/and are familiar with test driven development
Experience working with AWS-based DevOps or CI/CD pipelines is advantageous — particularly if you’ve used tools such as OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch), Amazon MSK/Kafka, or AWS Lambda as part of infrastructure, monitoring, or event-driven architectures
We welcome input on how to improve our systems and ways of working

Responsibilities

end-to-end ownership of features
mentor team members, sharing your knowledge and also work independently
represent the team in design discussions by presenting and defending proposed solutions to senior technical stakeholders such as Principal Engineers or Architects
collaborate openly with the team on shared items of work and communicated well in a team-oriented environment across locations

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
Additional ‘perks’ - Free grab and go breakfast and lunch options, fruit, tea/coffee, fantastic catered events and wellness activities throughout the year throughout the year etc