Senior Software Developer

Who We Are:

Beyond is a leading online furniture and home furnishings retailer, headquartered in the USA, with an innovative Software Development base, in Sligo that build and support the e-commerce platforms for our global retail sites.
 

What We Do:

We innovate to deliver simple, fast, secure, and delightful experiences for our customers, partners, and teams. Our software engineering teams thrive in our positive, open, excellence driven and innovative culture. Our team members play a critical role in keeping that magic.

We innovate to deliver simple, fast, secure, and delightful experiences for our customers, partners, and teams. Our software engineering teams thrive in our positive, open, excellence focused and innovative culture. Our team members play a critical role in keeping that magic.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to contribute and enhance our promotions platform that is vital to our partner’s experience and company's success. Working as part of a dynamic collaborative engineering team, your expertise in core technologies and tools will be crucial as you take ownership of your code from creation to production.

What you will do: 

• Work on significant critical projects with limited or no supervision.
• Play a major role in design of solutions to solve business problems.
• Automate and execute tests at all test levels.
• Proactively participate in team processes including backlog refinement, planning, reviews, retrospectives, and estimation.
• Contribute towards continuous improvement of development team processes.
• Drive innovation through research into new technologies.
• Mentor other members of the development team.
• Demonstrates initiative and integrity in all aspects of work.
• Perform other duties as required and assigned by manager and upper management.

Skills required: 

• 5+ years of Software Development experience. 
• Strong technical skills in programming, particularly in writing production-quality code (e.g. Java, Python etc.).
• Proficiency in Spring, Maven, Restful Web-Services and messaging platforms.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes/Docker.
• Experience in writing, drawing and reviewing technical documents.
• Proficiency in unit/integration testing.
• RDBMS (such as Oracle and PostgresSQL) Knowledge.
• Experience in scaling applications for performance and availability.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively as part of team.
• Strong problem-solving abilities, communication skills and a proven track record of effective teamwork and adaptability to evolving technologies.

Nice to have: 

• Experience with observability tools such as New Relic and Grafana.
• Experience in knowledge sharing within the team and across teams.
• Experience with Cloud technologies and Apache Pulsar.
• Knowledge in data structures and algorithms.

What you will learn 

• Developing a promotions platform to delight our users.
• Continuous Delivery
• Strategies and tooling for monitoring and supporting an event driven system. 
• Platform technologies: Pulsar, GCP and more

Education: 

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. 

What We Value: 

• Life/Work Balance
• Pride in Production
• Trust
• Challenge yourself, inspire others
• Success through diversity

Equal Employment Opportunity:

It is our commitment to ensure that all employment decisions are made without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, age, disability, race, religion and membership of the Traveller community, (protected characteristics under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2011).

What We Value: 

• Life/Work Balance
• Pride in Production
• Trust
• Challenge yourself, inspire others
• Success through diversity

Equal Employment Opportunity:

It is our commitment to ensure that all employment decisions are made without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, age, disability, race, religion and membership of the Traveller community, (protected characteristics under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2011).