Job Title: Staff Engineer/Sr. Engineer
Job Type: Contract
Location: Dublin — Associates can work anywhere from Ireland but client may ask to come to office on demand basis
Duration: 12 Months
The Role
Media Client Services and Platform Engineering organizations are growing in Dublin! We’re hiring software engineers at almost all levels to join a variety of teams across almost all our domains–content and playback services, commerce, identity, vehicle and device services. Our engineers are building the next generation of production services that power SiriusXM and Pandora, serving tens of millions of listeners across North America.
Whether it’s delivering high-throughput services, designing fault-tolerant systems, or accelerating internal developer productivity, our teams are tackling impactful technical challenges across the company. You’ll contribute to these efforts while helping to shape the future of our architecture, development practices, and engineering culture.
Your responsibilities
Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and designers.
Build scalable, performant, and resilient backend systems that support critical business needs.
Participate in system design and architecture reviews to influence technical direction.
Drive software quality through code reviews, testing, and continuous integration.
Contribute to a positive and inclusive engineering culture through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and leadership at your level.
Investigate and resolve complex technical issues in production environments.
Author and review technical design documents, RFCs, and root cause analyses.
Continuously learn and grow in your engineering craft and domain knowledge.
Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure swift resolution of any production outages involving your systems.
Essential skills/knowledge/experience
7+ years of professional experience building applications in Scala using the Typelevel stack (Cats, Cats Effect, http4s, fs2, Circe etc.) or ZIO
Deep knowledge in functional programming with an emphasis on referential transparency, strong typing and composable designs
Professional experience building applications in Haskell, Pure Script or another language or ecosystem with a modern functional effect system and an interest in transitioning to Scala and the Type level libraries.
Deep knowledge of REST API design, scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
Significant experience with production infrastructure, observability, and incident management.
Deep familiarity with AWS cloud services across compute, storage, and serverless.
Experience with microservice architecture running on Kubernetes
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience
7+ yrs of professional experience in below
Primary – Scala, Java, AWS;
Secondary - Golang, Tibco, Python