Job Description:
This role is hybrid, 3 days per week in our offices at Parkwest Business Park, Dublin.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced engineer to lead and shape our Platform & AI Enablement team, Trailblazers. This role combines two critical missions: building our internal developer platform with paved paths and development portal capabilities, while pioneering AI-powered tools and practices that transform how our 300+ engineers build software.
Our team's mission is to provide self-service capabilities to developers which drives quality, standardization, and velocity across the entire organization. We believe in the principles of Platform Engineering to identify the pain points impacting Workhuman product teams and enable those teams by providing common, reusable tools and capabilities via an internal developer platform (IDP). Simultaneously, we're at the forefront of AI enablement, developing AI coding agents, context engineering solutions, and agentic IDE integrations that embed our architectural guidelines and best practices directly into developer workflows.
Tech Stack
Platform Engineering: Java 8 and 17, Python, Spring, RESTful APIs, Apache Camel, ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, AWS, Terraform, Oracle DB, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, JMeter, Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Gitlab CI/CD, Git, Docker/Containerization
AI Enablement: Claude (Anthropic), AWS Bedrock, Large Language Models (LLMs), Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agentic workflows, Context engineering, Prompt engineering, AI-assisted development tools
What We Can Offer You
An opportunity to technically lead our platform enablement team, liaising with our product engineers to understand and solve engineering pain points
An opportunity to design and build out our best practice service templates, orchestration and infrastructure
An opportunity to build and curate our Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
An opportunity to automate governance of our deployments at scale
An opportunity to build and deploy AI-powered developer tools that enable our engineers to leverage cutting-edge AI capabilities safely and effectively
An opportunity to establish AI enablement frameworks, patterns, and best practices across the engineering organization
The Skills You Will Bring
You have 10+ years working in enterprise applications development with the following: Java, Spring, microservices
You have hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g. ECS, ECR, Lambda functions, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, AWS Batch, CloudWatch...) and CI/CD pipelines
Strong understanding of platform engineering principles and internal developer platform patterns
Hands-on experience building or implementing AI-powered development tools, coding assistants, or agentic workflows
Understanding of prompt engineering, context engineering, and AI safety consideration
Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar AI integration frameworks
You can evangelize and drive adoption of both platform capabilities and AI tools across a diverse engineering organization
Achievements
You have experience in creating paved paths or best practice tools or services or have worked on implementing an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) in the past
You have successfully introduced AI capabilities or tools within an engineering organization
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.
Top Skills
Workhuman Dublin, Dublin, IRL Office
19 Beckett Way, Dublin, Dublin 12, Ireland
