A hugely successful US eCommerce company with over 10 million members have recently set up their European R&D centre in Galway.
Work in their state-of-the-art city centre location, enjoy all the benefits of joining a new team and be part of their Irish success story. Excellent career opportunities plus salary & benefits on offer
As a Back-End Engineer, you will directly contribute to the technical strategy, deliver some of the most innovative products in class, and collaborate with a diverse team of talented engineers. As a software engineer with server-side development experience working on our core software services, you’ll be implementing critical product features and working on technical infrastructure to enable performance and scaling.
What You'll Do:
- Develop highly scalable systems using a variety of tools and languages, including Java, Ruby, and multiple open-source technologies
- Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, and deployment
- Work closely with cross-functional teams
- Contribute technically to projects by being a hands-on coder and removing roadblocks
- Help define architectural improvements to enable orders-of-magnitude growth in traffic and order volumes
- Write clean, testable, and efficient code
About you:
- BA/BS in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent practical experience
- At least 3+ years of full-time professional software development experience ideally working on robust, complex systems that serve a high volume of users
- Fluency with computer science fundamentals
- Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, Java microservices, algorithms, and relational/NoSQL databases
- Experience working on backend architecture & design for mobile platforms (iOS - Swift, Objective-C)
- Experience in modern frameworks and design patterns (MVC, REST, React, Redux)
- A strong command of algorithms, data structures, and best practices