Job Description
As a seasoned leader, you will play a pivotal role in driving the success of our software development team. Your expertise in guiding strategy and delivery within your product area will be invaluable as you collaborate across engineering, architecture, and product to ensure successful execution of deliverables.
The opportunity to impact engineering strategy and best practices is a significant perk of this role. You will have high levels of autonomy, trust, and support to create the right environment for your success. With exciting challenges to help grow your career through new approaches and experiences, you will be empowered to make a real difference.
Key aspects of this job include leading a team delivering a scalable, data-driven SaaS platform used by global enterprises to power real-time performance conversations, analytics, and coaching. Balancing technical leadership, architecture, and team growth while solving complex challenges is essential to the role.
This is a hybrid role requiring three days a week onsite in our Dublin office. As part of the Workhuman Cloud suite, you will contribute to transforming how companies approach performance development and employee engagement.
Required Skills and Qualifications
* 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)
Benefits
* 25 days annual leave, increasing with years of service
* Company plan VHI Health Care & Dental cover for employee and dependencies
* 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
Others
You will have the opportunity to cultivate 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.