About the job
Keelvar has an exciting opportunity to join our Engineering Team as a Senior Full-stack Software Engineer. This role is remotely based in either Ireland, Germany, the UK, Spain or the US. We are also considering applications from independent contractors outside of these jurisdictions, ideally based in Canada or South America.
Reporting to one of our Engineering Managers, you will be part of a critical group responsible for supporting and building new and existing features with a cross functional team. The successful candidate will join a group of engineers from different backgrounds including; Software Dev, QA, ML, Data Science, UI and Product design.
Responsibilities
- Work in a cross functional development team analysing product feature requests and designing solutions for our new autonomous sourcing product.
- Develop and maintain both front-end and back-end components of our web applications, with scalability, maintainability, security and reliability in mind.
- Write unit tests and otherwise ensure the quality of your code.
- Review colleague’s code and designs.
- Investigate and problem solve issues.
- Deploy code to and monitor the services you are responsible for.
- Ensure a quality first approach in all development activities.
- Collaborate closely with the Product team on new features and workflows. Understand and deliver on our customer’s needs and goals.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to ensure customer centric product vision is delivered.
- Assist and mentor junior engineers.
- Contribute to the ongoing success of this fast-paced, rapidly growing and evolving organisation.
Your profile
- Strong proficiency and at least 5 years of experience in full-stack software development ideally developing SaaS solutions.
- Experience of working with CI/CD processes and in an agile, product led environment.
- Experience designing distributed services which can communicate in a fault-tolerant manner using both RESTful and message-driven APIs.
- Experience coding in Python and Vue (or Angular). Familiarity with Django is a bonus.
- Familiarity with cloud services (mainly AWS) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
- You enjoy writing clean and testable code and are familiar with common software design patterns.
- You are self motivated and driven to achieve; you enjoy setting yourself goals and exceeding them.
- You are a deep thinker, you like to innovate, you like to solve problems creatively and quickly, and are passionate about technology and people.
- You thrive in an environment of mutual respect, openness and collaboration. You enjoy getting things done at a quick pace.
- You have a sense of ownership, you enjoy taking initiative and leading projects through to completion.
Why us?
Here at Keelvar, we are proud to be a remote-first organisation and we offer some great perks.
- Competitive salary with a Series B backed, fast growing organisation
- 25 days holidays increasing to 26 after 3 years and increasing again to 27 after 5 years. Plus your birthday off on us
- Flexible working hours with a positive approach to work - life balance
- An inclusive, collaborative, innovative culture
- Generous leave offerings including Wellbeing days
- Technology that enables you to perform to your best
If you really like the sound of the role but don't match every listed criteria exactly, we still want to hear from you. You could be the exact fit for this or any of our other roles.
We are also a diverse group and we intend to continue to attract and retain diverse talent in our organisation. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse Keelvar. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
