Job Description:
The Opportunity
Join us to lead a team building Workhuman Conversations, a core part of the Workhuman Cloud suite that's transforming how companies approach performance development and employee engagement. Unlike outdated, top-down performance management systems, Conversations puts the employee at the center by enabling continuous feedback, regular check-ins, goal alignment, and seamless integration with Social Recognition.
As Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team delivering a scalable, data-driven SaaS platform used by global enterprises to power real-time performance conversations, analytics, and coaching. You'll 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 you:
1. An opportunity to guide strategy and delivery within your product area, collaborating across engineering, architecture and product to ensure successful execution of deliverables.
2. An experienced product development team to work with in achieving your goals.
3. An opportunity to impact engineering strategy and best practices.
4. High levels of autonomy, trust, and support to create the right environment for your success.
5. Exciting challenges to help grow your career through new approaches and experiences.
6. High-profile deliverables that involve a broad range of skills, including software design, development, testing and deployment to AWS Cloud infrastructure.
7. An opportunity to guide your team in driving impactful outcomes in an environment where organisational, strategic and technical ambiguity and change is common.
8. 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:
9. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
10. 1- 2+ years' experience leading high performing teams with a track record of delivering SaaS products at scale.
11. 5+ years of hands-on software development experience with Java (Java 17 preferred) and Spring Framework. ·
12. Proficiency with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, Oracle and/or PostgreSQL, event-driven systems (Kafka), Terraform, Jenkins, and Maven for deployment automation and QA.
13. A deep understanding of the software development lifecycle as well as engineering and agile best practices and approaches.
14. Experience using metrics for a data-driven approach to product development and decision making.
15. 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.
16. Professional experience in making large complex business problems more approachable, with an ability to understand risks, dependencies and monitoring of delivery health
17. Experience with HR tech, employee recognition, or performance management platforms (a plus).
Achievements
18. 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.
19. You have driven initiatives to measurably improve team ways of working, engineering process within your team and beyond.
20. You have successfully mentored and coached engineers to grow in their careers resulting in new opportunities and career progression.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. You have cultivated an environment of accountability, trust and psychological safety where people are able to do their best work
24. Exposure to data engineering teams and data-driven applications is desirable
Benefits:
25. 25 days annual leave, increasing with years of service
26. Company plan VHI Health Care & Dental cover for employee and dependencies
27. A Pension commencing after probation period
28. Participation in Workhuman's employee recognition programs
29. Discounted gift certificates
30. Discounted TaxSaver Travel cards/free car parking (subject to availability)
31. Income Protection
32. Life Assurance
33. Access to our Tuition Reimbursement Scheme
34. Access to Workhuman University
35. Additional 'perks' - Free grab and go breakfast and lunch options, fruit, tea/coffee, fantastic catered events and wellness activities throughout the year throughout the year etc