Senior Software Engineer

About the Role and Company

Poppulo is at the forefront of revolutionizing communications and workplace technology. Focused on simplifying employee engagement, office management in hybrid settings, and enhancing guest experiences, the company powers over 6,000 organizations worldwide, reaching 35 million employees and displaying content across more than 500,000 digital signs. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in advancing the scalability and technical excellence of our SaaS Employee Experience platform, contributing as a hands-on engineer to design, implement, and maintain complex solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable, high-quality software systems aligning with architectural standards and business needs.
• Develop microservices and APIs emphasizing maintainability, performance, observability, and reliability.
• Take ownership of complex features or components from conception through deployment, including testing and operational monitoring.
• Collaborate closely with principal engineers, architects, product managers, and DevOps teams to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery.
• Create and enhance services utilizing AWS serverless and container technologies like Lambda, ECS, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, Event-Bridge, and RDS.
• Implement security best practices encompassing authentication and authorization protocols such as OAuth2, OIDC, and RBAC.
• Engage in code reviews and promote standards for coding, design, testing, and continuous integration/deployment pipelines.
• Contribute to observability improvements through metrics, logging, tracing, and alert systems.
• Proactively identify and resolve technical debt, enhance reliability, and drive continuous improvements.
• Adhere to compliance and data protection regulations, including GDPR and best practices for handling personally identifiable information.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies and support ongoing process enhancements within the engineering organization.
• Embody company values and encourage an inclusive and collaborative engineering culture.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Five to eight years of experience delivering production-ready software applications in distributed or SaaS environments.
• Advanced proficiency in either Node.js/TypeScript (asynchronous programming, modular design) or Java (Spring Boot, concurrency, RESTful services) and familiarity with front-end frameworks such as React.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, multi-tenancy, role-based access control, and SaaS security principles.
• Experience working with microservices architecture, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and AWS cloud services is advantageous.
• Knowledge of implementing observability features including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures utilizing tools like Kafka, SNS/SQS, Event-Bridge, or Kinesis.
• Experience with CI/CD processes, Git workflows, automated testing frameworks such as JUnit, Jest, and Playwright.
• Capability to design systems for scale, performance, and fault tolerance within given product domains.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code with tools like Terraform or CDK is preferred.
• Excellent analytical skills to troubleshoot complex production issues.
• Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with technical and cross-functional teams.
• A commitment to ongoing learning and engineering process improvement.

Compensation and Benefits

The gross annual base salary ranges from EUR 61,000 to 75,000 plus variable annual compensation. The exact salary depends on factors including qualifications, experience, and location. Benefits include performance-related bonuses, health and life insurance, flexible working arrangements, access to top-tier learning and development platforms, and additional perks like educational assistance and in-house soft skills training.

Work Environment and Culture

This role supports a flexible hybrid working model based in Cork with opportunities for candidates across Ireland. Office attendance is coordinated according to team and business requirements.

Poppulo prides itself on a values-driven culture that encourages authenticity, continuous improvement, collaboration, and diversity. Recognized repeatedly as a Great Place to Work, the organization offers a vibrant and challenging atmosphere where employees are empowered to make meaningful impacts.

Equal Opportunity and Privacy

Poppulo is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity and privacy protection. Information about their job applicant privacy practices is maintained internally.