Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Job Description:

The Opportunity:

Our Reporting Product Engineering team is at the heart of how Workhuman helps our customers build world-class cultures centred around recognition, celebration, and conversations. The team manages core functionality for the business and is dedicated to designing and delivering innovative solutions while maintaining and modernizing legacy systems that are crucial for keeping the business running.
We have an established team taking on exciting challenges, using analytics and reporting to drive the impact of recognition and it’s use in the businesses of our clients. You will have the autonomy to help design, build and deploy this product, which will serve our enterprise customer base. We operate in a highly collaborative environment, where multi-disciplined individuals come together to make things happen.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team in expanding and improving our Reporting solutions. We are a group of peers with high levels of trust and respect who collaborate closely to build the best software we can, given the constraints we have. We succeed together, so your peers will always have your back. This is grown-up software engineering!
Tech stack: Python, Flask, RESTful webservices, AWS, QuickSight, Terraform, API, Postgres, Redshift, Jenkins, Sonar, Git, Docker/Containerization, JS and React based frameworks, Typescript.
**This is a hybrid role requiring three days a week onsite in our Dublin office**

What we can offer you:

• An opportunity to influence the technical strategy which is led by the Principal Engineer for the whole team.

• High-profile deliverables that involve a broad range of skills, including software design, development, testing and deployment to AWS Cloud infrastructure.

• An opportunity to break down large features and epics into smaller items to enable others in the squad to work more efficiently

• An opportunity to co-ordinate complex deployments and improve developer experience at Workhuman by bringing in new ideas unconstrained by existing approaches

• An opportunity to enable the team to work efficiently toward their goals (e.g. assisting your Engineering Manager with prioritising work, identifying dependencies, interpreting team retro feedback, caring about the team's documentation)
   

The skills you will bring:

• Ideally, 6+ years of back-end development experience.

• You have experience developing web-based applications at the enterprise level

• Problem solving is a strength of yours. You bring the ability to interpret data and business strategy, understanding constraints and trade-offs.

• You have experience in mentoring other team members about best practices and fostering consistent coding styles and guidelines

• Experience in Python programming, including API design and development.

• Experience with AWS and Cloud-first applications is a plus.

• Experience with React or other Front-end frameworks is advantageous.
   

Achievements:

• You have led system level designs that serve as definitive examples for other engineers (transferred from the skills you will bring)

• You have proven to be capable in delivering quality solutions in a fast-moving business environment

• You have collaborated openly on shared items of work and communicated well in a team-oriented environment across locations.

• You have demonstrated a growth mindset with a continuous focus on improving yourself and the way work gets done within your sphere of influence.

• Must have exposure to data engineering teams and data-driven applications.

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.

• 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.