Job description
Job Description:
Hi, we're Workhuman! We help our customers build world-class cultures—and it starts with our own.
Ours is a culture of recognition, celebration, and conversations. Our people are our greatest assets. We celebrate them. We thank them. We support their growth and development. And, hey, we're growing! Now is the perfect time to join us.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineer who wants to bring their skills to help shape and technically lead our new squad within Platform Engineering. The Platform Core Team’s goal within Workhuman is to support and enable our Product Teams to deliver work with considerable autonomy by also providing a robust and scalable platform This role is for you if you have a passion for working with wide ranging technologies, get a kick out of architecting scalable and resilient systems, delivering well-designed code, and enjoy inspiring others to set high standards in technical excellence and delivering technology solutions which delight our customers.
Technical Stack
A long list including Java, AWS, Terraform, Spring, Spring Boot, REST, Apache Camel, ActiveMQ, Oracle, Postgres, Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Splunk, Git, Docker.
The Skills You Will Bring
Responsibilities, Skills & Qualifications
- You have hands-on experience in agile software development, with a track record of delivering high quality, scalable, performant and secure client-facing applications.
- You have strong experience in system design and architecting web and cloud-based solutions. You have a deep knowledge of non-functional requirements and are comfortable building reliable, maintainable, testable, accessible and observable software.
- You have a strong background in Java or other object-oriented programming languages.
- You are proficient with developing software with Relational Databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.). Experience working with Non-Relational Databases (e.g., Redis, DynamoDB, etc.) is a plus.
- You have hands-on experience with some of the following AWS services - ECS Fargate, ECR, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, AWS Batch, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeArtifact.
- You are comfortable working with different Architecture Styles and Patterns (REST, Microservices, Event-Driven Architectures, Domain-Driven Design, etc.). You have a keen interest in emerging technology trends. You have proven the ability to embrace new technologies quickly and are adept at helping others understand them.
- You have extensive experience with automated unit and integration testing.
- Ideally, you have knowledge and experience with Infrastructure Automation and working with CI/CD pipelines.
- You communicate with others across the business to collaborate and align on key topics and business strategy, to ensure our teams are always working toward shared goals. You listen attentively and actively, building on others' opinions, avoiding early judgements, and using radical candour when expressing your opinion. You foster a culture of Innovation and curiosity in your team, empowering everyone to contribute.
The Value You Will Deliver
- You will promote technical excellence of delivery of new capabilities, which meet market needs, and support our rapidly growing business.
- You will set and communicate the overall Architecture strategy for our Platform Engineering features.
- You will be central to laying the foundations to the path ahead, working with Product Managers to understand business objectives, identify potential solutions and reduce uncertainty.
- You will support Software and Senior Software Engineers as required as they both learn from you and challenge you to succeed.
- You will be involved in influencing the direction of our product strategy.
The Company
Workhuman® is pioneering the human workplace through award-winning Social Recognition® and Continuous Performance Management solutions. Workhuman inspires more than six million humans across 180 countries to perform the best work of their lives. For the past 21 years, human resources and business leaders alike have used Workhuman Cloud® to gain the proactive insights necessary to transform and lead a more connected, human-centered workplace that accelerates engagement and productivity. To learn more about Workhuman's mission to make work more human for every person on the planet and how you can ensure great work is celebrated and amplified in your workplace, visit www.workhuman.com.
Benefits:
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25 days annual leave, increasing with years of service
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Company plan VHI Health Care & Dental cover for employee and dependencies
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A Pension commencing after probation period
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Participation in Workhuman’s employee recognition programs
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Discounted gift certificates
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Discounted TaxSaver Travel cards/free car parking (subject to availability)
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Income Protection
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Life Assurance
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Access to our Tuition Reimbursement Scheme
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Access to Workhuman University
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Additional ‘perks’ - Free breakfast cereal, fruit, tea/coffee, fantastic catered events and wellness activities throughout the year etc.
The Company:
Workhuman® is pioneering the human workplace through award-winning Social Recognition® and Continuous Performance Management solutions. Workhuman inspires more than six million humans across 180 countries to perform the best work of their lives. For the past 21 years, human resources and business leaders alike have used Workhuman Cloud® to gain the proactive insights necessary to transform and lead a more connected, human-centered workplace that accelerates engagement and productivity. To learn more about Workhuman’s mission to make work more human for every person on the planet and how you can ensure great work is celebrated and amplified in your workplace, visit
www.workhuman.com
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Did you know:
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We have an award winning culture, we were named as #2 Great Place to Work in Ireland in 2021 large-sized workplace, up from #4 in 2020 in the same category having previously placed #1 in the medium-sized workplace category in 2019. We are also recognised as one of Irelands Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place to Work in both 2021 and 2020.
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There are currently over 6 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.
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Our core values are; Respect, Determination, Innovation and Imagination.
At Workhuman, 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.
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 on 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.
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