Senior Software Engineer

Job Description:

The Opportunity
At Workhuman, we’re on a mission to make work more human by helping organisations celebrate, connect, and empower their people. Our Recognition & Celebrations solutions sit at the heart of this mission, enabling companies worldwide to build cultures of gratitude.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our collaborative, high-trust team. You’ll play a key role in designing, building, and scaling impactful features that reach millions of employees globally. Every line of code you ship helps people feel seen, valued, and connected at work.

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll partner with Product, Principal Engineers, and Architects to deliver innovative solutions. While much of your work will focus on backend development in Java, you’ll also have opportunities to contribute to frontend projects in React. This is hands-on, grown-up engineering with the space to influence strategy and drive innovation.

Tech Stack
Java 17/21, Spring (Boot, Web, Data/JDBC, Security), RESTful APIs, Apache Camel, Kafka, AWS (Lambda, ECS, ECR, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Terraform, OpenSearch), Oracle, Postgres, PL/SQL, React, TypeScript, CSS, JMeter, Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Git, Docker/Containerization.

What You’ll Do

• Lead design and engineering activities for your squad, contributing to both strategy and delivery.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, QA, and Architecture teams to shape requirements and technical direction.
• Drive the design and implementation of scalable, high-quality, performant features.
• Contribute to agile ceremonies; sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, retrospectives.
• Decompose complex features into smaller deliverables to improve efficiency.
• Conduct code reviews, share best practices, and enhance developer experience.
• Mentor engineers, fostering growth, knowledge-sharing, and technical excellence.
• Influence architectural vision within the squad and across the wider engineering organisation.
• The Skills You Bring
• Collaborate with Product, UX, QA, and Architecture teams to shape requirements and technical direction.
• Drive the design and implementation of scalable, high-quality, performant features.
• Contribute to agile ceremonies; sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, retrospectives.
• Decompose complex features into smaller deliverables to improve efficiency.
• Conduct code reviews, share best practices, and enhance developer experience.
• Mentor engineers, fostering growth, knowledge-sharing, and technical excellence.
• Influence architectural vision within the squad and across the wider engineering organisation.
• The Skills You Bring
• 5+ years’ experience as a software engineer in enterprise environments.
• Expertise with Java 17/21, Spring Boot, Spring Security, REST APIs, and microservices.
• Experience with React, TypeScript, and CSS for full-stack delivery.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including Lambda, ECS, ECR, CloudWatch, CloudFront, as well as Terraform, Docker, and containerized environments.
• Solid background with relational databases (Oracle, Postgres, Aurora, PL/SQL).
• Experience with Kafka, Apache Camel, and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with integration testing, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Maven, Sonar).
• A proven ability to mentor, influence design discussions, and represent the team in cross-functional forums.
• Excellent communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical conversations.
• Take ownership of features end-to-end, from design through delivery.
• Mentor and support peers, while continuing to grow independently.
• Represent the squad in design discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate openly across teams and locations, contributing to a culture of trust, respect, and innovation.
• Growth: Opportunities to influence technical strategy, cross-department initiatives, and architectural vision.
• Familiarity with integration testing, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Maven, Sonar).
• A proven ability to mentor, influence design discussions, and represent the team in cross-functional forums.
• Excellent communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical conversations.
• Take ownership of features end-to-end, from design through delivery.
• Mentor and support peers, while continuing to grow independently.
• Represent the squad in design discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate openly across teams and locations, contributing to a culture of trust, respect, and innovation.
• Growth: Opportunities to influence technical strategy, cross-department initiatives, and architectural vision.

Achievements & Impact

What We Offer

• Culture: A collaborative environment built on trust, psychological safety, and open feedback. We succeed together, support each other, and welcome new ideas.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (increasing with tenure)
• VHI health & dental cover for employee + dependents

• Pension Scheme (Post-Probation)

• Income protection & life assurance

• Employee Recognition Programs

• Tuition reimbursement & access to Workhuman University
• Perks: free breakfast & lunch options, catered events, wellness activities, travel discounts, car parking (subject to availability)

The Company:

At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We’re looking for a human who is collaborative, innovative with a growth mindset

We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.

Did You Know We Have An Award-Winning Culture Across Emea And North America:

• We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large-sized workplace category. We were also recognised as the Best Workplace for Women and the Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
• In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium-sized workplace category.
•  We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as the Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work, and U.S. Best Places to Work.
• There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.
• Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation, and Imagination.

Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based solely on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.