Senior Staff Software Engineer

LearnUpon is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join their team in Ireland or Serbia. This role involves leading the design of a scalable learning management system (LMS) and contributing to the company's culture. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software design and development, with proficiency in object-oriented programming languages. They should also possess strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues. Experience with cloud-based services and large-scale distributed systems is highly desirable.

• Drive impact and innovation while building and shipping software at scale.
• Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization.
• Identify problems and opportunities and lead teams to architect, design, implement and operationalize systems.
• Actively improve the level of craftsmanship by developing best practices and coaching.
• Work closely with and influence product and/or technology partners regularly to help define roadmap.
• Participate in on-call emergency response rota.
• Resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture.
• Review others' work and share knowledge.

• 10+ years of experience in software design and development in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C/C++, Ruby, C#...
• Hands-on experience writing and shipping high-quality, large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures.
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas to and collaborate with both technical and non-technical peers.
• Experience debugging in a data-heavy environment (e.g. Hadoop, Spark).
• Experience with stream processing at scale (e.g. Beam/Flink/Storm/kafka/GCP) and related tools.
• Working experience with cloud-based services such as AWS, Google cloud, or Azure.
• Strong Design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Outstanding communication skills and collaboration capabilities.
• Experience leading a large organization (considered a big plus, but not required).

• Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular team events
• Excellent career progression
• Structured learning environment
• Competitive salary and company ESOP
• Employer Contributed Pension
• Private health insurance
• 25 days annual leave + 1 annual company wellness day off
• Flexible Working Arrangements - work with your Manager to determine the best working hours and location (home, office, hybrid) in order to help you balance work and family life, and to suit your lifestyle.