Staff Software Engineer

What’s the Opportunity

Daft.ie is Ireland’s largest property portal, with a mission to make buying and selling property simple for everyone across the country. With over 3 million users visiting our website and apps every month, we’re driven by the opportunity to enhance the home buying and selling experience. If you’re excited to do impactful work that reaches hundreds of thousands of people daily, this could be the perfect role for you.

We are looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to join the Daft engineering team working with the Head of Engineering and Engineering Leadership. We have some big aspirations for our products and some exciting technology challenges. We’re looking for the right person to help bring these products to life and help build great software that will deliver the future of one of Ireland’s most popular services.

This role will give you the opportunity to exercise and develop your engineering skills to help define the direction & implementation of the Daft Platforms and work with our Engineering Leadership to build a vision and roadmap to support our strategic goals.

What will I be doing

Software Engineers at Distilled build the core services to support our different products, websites and apps. We strive to use the best technologies for the job and are continuously upgrading our technology stack.

Here’s just some of the things you’ll work on:

• Drive the technical design and roadmap for our backend technology stack, identifying areas of improvement and implementing modern best practises
• Identify problems and opportunities and collaborate with teams to architect, design, implement and operationalise solutions
• Deliver high quality code, adhering to best coding practices, providing code reviews, and guiding more junior team members
• Actively contributing to the success of key projects and features for Daft.ie by working closely with individual teams to accelerate their work
• Where necessary ensuring technical solutions and patterns are suitable for and are adopted successfully across all our platforms
• Acting as a role model and mentor to developers of all disciplines in our engineering team and in particular members of our backend chapter

What skills and experience do I need

• 7+ years experience developing commercial, large scale solutions
• Strong communications skills - the ability to work well with others, share ideas and influence outcomes.
• Excellent knowledge of and experience using Java and Object Oriented design principles.
• Solid experience building cloud based applications, ideally using AWS.
• Solid understanding of databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB.
• Significant experience building RESTful APIs.
• A self-starter with an analytical approach who is comfortable working on their own initiative and handling their time effectively.
• Creative thinking and is willing and able to solve complicated technical problems that others cannot
• A degree or masters in Computer Science/Engineering or a related field.

Advantage if you have:

• Experience using Spring, ElasticSearch or OpenSearch, AWS, Docker and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Experience using GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
• Experience building microservices and working with messaging queues.
• Experience of Prometheus / Grafana for monitoring/alarming of services.

What’s it like to work here?

You will have the opportunity to work with one of Ireland's fastest growing Internet companies. You will get the chance to create a significant contribution to our strategic direction. Projects are exciting and employees are given wide scope for creativity and innovation

Benefits - what you can expect

• Our goal is to maintain a culture where people look forward to work – whether they're in our centrally-located office in Dublin or working remotely, which is optional for all employees.
• We do that by making Distilled a place you'll be listened to and trusted to do your job. Where you can have fun, learn and feel appreciated. And where you get focused career development, growth and progression opportunities.
• We want you to feel confident that this is the right place for you, your career, your wellbeing and your future.
• Above all, your health and wellbeing are at the forefront of how we build the business. That means looking after you while you're here and later in life. So you'll receive life insurance, fully-paid healthcare and a 5% contribution towards your pension.

More about Distilled

We exist to make buying and selling in Ireland simple.

We put our people first, creating an inclusive environment where we can develop products that put our users first. We value people’s work and time, creating a community where they have an opportunity to make an impact and grow.

Our challenge is to enhance our market-leading products using insights and empathy to present our users with the perfect match.

What we build is technology, but what we do is create connections for life’s most meaningful moments. We are Distilled and we bring people together.

Our Values

We have five core values: We have a growth mindset. We like to simplify things and make things happen. We collaborate across teams, business units and brands. We're passionate about what we do.

These values give us a framework for leadership and daily decision making. They embody how we behave and present ourselves — as individuals and as a business — both internally and externally for our colleagues, our users and our customers.

We are a diverse bunch of people here in Distilled, and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our Company. We do not discriminate based on gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community.