Staff Software Engineer

LearnUpon is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their team in Ireland. The role involves designing and implementing a scalable learning management system (LMS) while coaching and developing junior engineers. The company values innovation, craftsmanship, and collaboration, and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies. The job overview emphasizes delivering solutions, driving impact and innovation, providing architectural guidance, and actively improving code and designs.

• Delivering solutions that amaze customers
• Driving impact and innovation while building and shipping software at scale
• Providing architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization
• Identifying problems and opportunities and collaborating with teams to architect, design, implement, and operationalize systems
• Actively improving the level of craftsmanship in code and designs
• Participating in on-call emergency response rota
• Working closely with and influencing product and/or technology partners regularly to help define roadmap
• Reviewing others' work and sharing knowledge

• 7+ 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 (not required but considered a big plus).
• Experience working with and leading teams (not required but considered a big plus).

• 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.