Title– Backend EngineerBudget -€70,000 basic, 10% annual bonus, participation in Company ESOP, Healthcare and company pension schemeLocation– South Dublin, Onsite 4 days per week.Ingeniois partnering with adeep-tech leader at the forefront of AI, molecular modelling, quantum physics, and high-performance computing, focused on digitising next-generation drug development across pharma and biotech.Backed by national and European funding and recognised for its innovation, this team is building the infrastructure behind advanced AI-driven scientific research.The roleWe're hiring anexperienced Backend Engineerwith strongLinux, Python, and database engineeringskills to design, build, and maintain aself-hosted PostgreSQL environmentsupporting long-running, parallelisedHPC workloads.You'll work closely with R&D and senior technical leadership ondata models and ETL pipelinespowering an AI-driven crystal structure prediction platform.What you'll doDesign, build, and maintain self-hosted PostgreSQL infrastructureConfigure and scale databases for parallel HPC workloadsOwn backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and data integrityDefine schemas, tables, permissions, and access controlsContribute to ETL pipeline design and implementation in PythonWhat we are looking for3+ years experience in database design, management, backup, recovery, and observability (e.g. Prometheus, Alembic, Barman, Databasus)Strong PostgreSQL or MySQL experience (incl. self-hosting)Solid Linux systems backgroundContainer experience ( Docker, Podman )Strong Python fundamentals and software design principlesClear communicator with an ownership mindsetBonusETL orchestration tools ( Prefect, Dagster, Airflow )Parallel computing or schedulers ( OpenMP, MPI, SLURM )If this sounds like you, apply now or contact Ingenio for a confidential discussion.