Offer summary

Qualifications:

Proven experience in backend software engineering with a strong understanding of modern technologies., Ability to drive technical design and roadmap development for backend systems., Experience in delivering high-quality code and conducting code reviews., Strong mentoring skills to guide junior developers and contribute to team success..

Key responsabilities:

Drive the technical design and roadmap for the backend technology stack.

Collaborate with teams to architect, design, implement, and operationalize solutions.

Deliver high-quality code and provide guidance to junior team members.

Act as a mentor and role model for developers within the engineering team.

Job description

What’s the Opportunity

Daft.ie is Ireland’s largest property portal, with a mission to make buying and selling property simple for everyone across the country. With over 3 million users visiting our website and apps every month, we’re driven by the opportunity to enhance the home buying and selling experience. If you’re excited to do impactful work that reaches hundreds of thousands of people daily, this could be the perfect role for you.

We are looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to join the Daft engineering team working with the Head of Engineering and Engineering Leadership. We have some big aspirations for our products and some exciting technology challenges. We’re looking for the right person to help bring these products to life and help build great software that will deliver the future of one of Ireland’s most popular services.

This role will give you the opportunity to exercise and develop your engineering skills to help define the direction & implementation of the Daft Platforms and work with our Engineering Leadership to build a vision and roadmap to support our strategic goals.

What will I be doing

Software Engineers at Distilled build the core services to support our different products, websites and apps. We strive to use the best technologies for the job and are continuously upgrading our technology stack.

Here’s just some of the things you’ll work on:

Drive the technical design and roadmap for our backend technology stack, identifying areas of improvement and implementing modern best practises
Identify problems and opportunities and collaborate with teams to architect, design, implement and operationalise solutions
Deliver high quality code, adhering to best coding practices, providing code reviews, and guiding more junior team members
Actively contributing to the success of key projects and features for Daft.ie by working closely with individual teams to accelerate their work
Where necessary ensuring technical solutions and patterns are suitable for and are adopted successfully across all our platforms
Acting as a role model and mentor to developers of all disciplines in our engineering team and in particular members of our backend chapter

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