Transforming Performance Development
Join us in a dynamic role where you will guide strategy and delivery within your product area, collaborating across engineering, architecture, and product to ensure successful execution of deliverables. You will lead a team building scalable, data-driven SaaS platforms used by global enterprises to power real-time performance conversations, analytics, and coaching.
The Opportunity
As a seasoned leader, you will balance technical leadership, architecture, and team growth while solving exciting challenges—like high-volume real-time feedback, integration with recognition systems, and building analytics-driven insights at scale.
This is a hybrid role requiring three days a week onsite in our Dublin office.
What We Can Offer
* An experienced product development team to work with in achieving your goals.
* An opportunity to impact engineering strategy and best practices.
* High levels of autonomy, trust, and support to create the right environment for your success.
* Exciting challenges to help grow your career through new approaches and experiences.
* High-profile deliverables that involve a broad range of skills, including software design, development, testing, and deployment to AWS Cloud infrastructure.
* An opportunity to drive the full talent lifecycle for your functional area championing a culture of growth and development through a rich set of facilitation, coaching, and mentorship skills.
The Skills You Will Bring
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
* 1- 2+ years' experience leading high performing teams with a track record of delivering SaaS products at scale.
* 5+ years of hands-on software development experience with Java (Java 17 preferred) and Spring Framework.
* Proficiency with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, Oracle and/or PostgreSQL, event-driven systems (Kafka), Terraform, Jenkins, and Maven for deployment automation and QA.
* A deep understanding of the software development lifecycle as well as engineering and agile best practices and approaches.
* Experience using metrics for a data-driven approach to product development and decision making.
* An ability to communicate and collaborate with colleagues in product, design, engineering, and beyond to work with the best interests of our customers and the strategic goals of the company.
* Professional experience in making large complex business problems more approachable, with an ability to understand risks, dependencies, and monitoring of delivery health.
* Experience with HR tech, employee recognition, or performance management platforms (a plus).
Achievements
* You have successfully led a team to deliver features and applications projects with high impact on customers, on time, and to a high level of quality, scalability, and performance.
* You have driven initiatives to measurably improve team ways of working, engineering process within your team and beyond.
* You have successfully mentored and coached engineers to grow in their careers resulting in new opportunities and career progression.
* You have led or coached teams to design scalable client-facing solutions, making trade-offs where required considering the constraints and long-term engineering and product strategy.
* You have successfully advocated for and then delivered technical debt deliverables as part of the teams' roadmap, and adoption of emerging toolsets and techniques to enhance the developer experience.
* You have cultivated an environment of accountability, trust, and psychological safety where people are able to do their best work.
* Exposure to data engineering teams and data-driven applications is desirable.
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 etc.