Principal Engineer

Job Description:

The Opportunity
We are looking for a Principal Engineer who wants to join a dynamic and experienced team and take their technical knowledge to the next level, helping us achieve our mission of creating a best-in-class recognition product that makes giving recognition simple, easy, and engaging.

You will work with the Recognition and Celebrations team, who design and deliver exciting features that enable our customers to spread a culture of recognition within their organization and truly become a "Workhuman Enterprise." In short, we have built a platform that allows people to thank each other publicly for great work.

This role sits within one of the larger development teams, who have made significant progress in creating a wonderful Gratitude and Recognition experience for our customers worldwide. We partner closely with people from Product, Product Design, and Architecture.

What we can offer you  

• Collaboration with Product and the Engineering Managers to ensure that work is planned, designs are thought through, and capacity is available to complete the work planned for each sprint.  

• An opportunity to drive the strategy and technology to enable a best-in-class recognition experience for our customers. 

• A chance to seek out opportunities to help the engineers on the team grow by coaching and facilitating their development.

• An opportunity to lead and build on an architectural strategy and vision, which is transparent, collaborative, and develops buy- in with the whole team.  

• Support engineering development through coaching and mentoring activities, and contribute to the selection and hiring of new talent

Tech Stack

• Java, Spring, Git, Relational databases, SQL, ECS/Fargate, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, OpenAPI.

• Also, Apache Camel, Python, Splunk, New Relic, Kafka.

The skills you will bring 

• Ideally, you have 10+ years working in enterprise applications development with the following: Java, Spring, microservices, SQL 

• You have hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g. RDS, ECS, Lambda functions, API Gateway, S3)

• You have experience in agile software development and scalable client-facing applications, with a track record of delivery secure, performant RESTful APIs.

• You have familiarity with application design and development using JavaScript and frameworks such as React (preferred) or similar to facilitate in depth design discussions with Frontend Developers.  

• You have experience and are comfortable explaining complex technical issues to an audience of varying technical abilities (including those with no technical experience)  

• You understand and can identify technical risks with the product approach and the technical strategy, communicate them to stakeholders, and implement strategies to avoid them.  

• You have experience diagnosing complex production support issues and help communicate clearly about the issue, the impact and proposed resolution and guide the team to deliver the appropriate.  

• You have experience working with other technology leaders to continually improve engineering standards across the organization. 

Achievements  

• You have helped introduce new dev/test/automation frameworks, languages, tools and have driven adoption where suitable.  

• You have delivered quality solutions for your team, leading technical design efforts that can be used as examples for other engineers.  

• You have built systems that scale reliably without intervention, while considering tradeoffs between things like scalability, efficiency, security and cost  

• You can break down the most complicated technical problems and can solve them quickly and autonomously in the businesses and customers’ best interests

The Company:

At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We’re looking for a human who is collaborative, innovative with a growth mindset

We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.

Did you know we have an award-winning culture across EMEA and North America:

• We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large-sized workplace category. We were also recognised as the Best Workplace for Women and the Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

• In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium-sized workplace category.

•  We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as the Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work, and U.S. Best Places to Work.

• There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.

• Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation, and Imagination.

Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based solely on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.