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Senior Software Engineer - Tooling, Platform Engineering

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Dublin
Senior level
Dublin
Senior level
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will enhance internal tooling in a CI/CD environment, design scalable solutions, and mentor junior engineers while fostering collaboration across teams.
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LearnUpon is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Dublin.

LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train their employees, partners, and customers. Businesses can manage, track, and achieve their unique learning goals — all through a single, powerful solution.

With offices in Dublin (our HQ), Belgrade, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Sydney, we are a global team with lots of diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences that puts our customers' experience at the heart of everything we do. Our culture fosters an open, collaborative and supportive environment where our accomplishments are celebrated and encouraged. We're always striving for the best solution (not the easy one). We’re proud of our success and we’re humble and hungry to achieve more. 

As a Senior Software Engineer in our tooling team within Platform Engineering, you will be responsible for the delivery of features, services and enhancements of LearnUpon’s internal tooling in a full CICD environment. You’ll be participating in the design of scalable, best-in-class tooling, and you’ll strengthen the great company culture that we have in LearnUpon.

While our codebase is dominantly Ruby on Rails and Go for microservices, we welcome anyone with substantial development experience to be a part of our journey. We are not bound to our tech stack. We prefer choosing the right technology for the right problem so you’ll have plenty of space to grow your skills.


What will I be doing?

  • Design and implement solutions that empower our engineering teams to deliver features efficiently and seamlessly
  • Be part of the journey as we start to build AI tooling for teams across the organization 
  • Develop business-critical tools enabling cross-organizational teams to provide enterprise-level support to our customers
  • Drive innovation by designing, building, and deploying scalable software solutions that create significant impact
  • Elevate the level of craftsmanship in our codebase and system designs, setting new standards for quality
  • Foster close collaboration with Platform, DevOps, and Automation teams, while partnering with Product Engineering and Business teams to deliver tailored tooling solutions
  • Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and skill enhancement across architecture, tooling, and emerging technologies
  • Mentor and guide junior engineers to foster their growth and development


What skills do I need?                                                                               

  • 5+ years of experience in software design and development in programming language such as Ruby, Python, Go, Java
  • Hands-on experience writing and shipping high-quality, distributed systems and client-server architectures
  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases and query performance
  • Experience building applications using Rails, Django or equivalent frameworks
  • Experience with JavaScript frameworks e.g. Stimulus, Angular, React
  • Able to effectively communicate technical ideas to and collaborate with both technical and non-technical peers
  • Holistic approach in engineering problem solving keeping a high bar for software quality
  • A passion for craftsmanship
  • Owning the delivery throughout all phases of SDLC
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
  • Experience collaborating with team members across time zones/locations to deliver solutions seamlessly
  • A track record of being a team player who works as well with non-technical stakeholders as your fellow developers

Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!


Not required but considered a plus

  • Experience with asynchronous job frameworks such as Sidekiq
  • Experience with streaming data processing platforms like Apache Kafka
  • Previous experience working in a SaaS environment
  • Exposure to Amazon Web Services including AI services like Bedrock
  • Experience working in a CICD environment with a strong focus on quality
  • Previous experience of eLearning technologies
  • Previous experience with containerisation and orchestration tooling such as docker and kubernetes


Why work with us?

  • Competitive salary and company ESOP
  • Comprehensive private health insurance scheme and Company pension scheme
  • 25 days annual leave + 1 annual company wellness day off
  • Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular team events
  • Excellent career progression - take LearnUpon where you think it can go


What is the Hiring Process?

Our typical process generally works as follows:

  • Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a screening call
  • Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews
  • Finally, candidates will have a short interview with a member of our C-Suite Team
  • The successful candidate will be contacted with an offer to join our team


LearnUpon is an Equal Opportunities Employer. 

We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, membership of the Traveller community, or any other legally protected status.


Visit our Careers site to find out more about working for LearnUpon, and check us out on Instagram.

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Amazon Web Services
Angular
Django
Docker
Go
Java
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Python
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