Software engineer - Tooling, Platform Engineering

LearnUpon is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team in Ireland.

LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train their employees, partners, and customers. Businesses can manage, track, and achieve their unique learning goals — all through a single, powerful solution.

With offices in Dublin (our HQ), Philadelphia, Utah, Salt Lake City, Belgrade, and Sydney, we are a team that puts our customers' experience at the heart of everything we do. We're always striving for the best solution (not the easy one), and we’re committed to producing work that we can be proud of.

Our offices are open, collaborative environments where our team and individual accomplishments are celebrated and encouraged. Join LearnUpon, where we work together as a friendly, supportive team who, most importantly, like to have fun.

As a Software Engineer in our tools team within Platform Engineering, you will be responsible for the delivery of features, services and enhancements of LearnUpon’s internal tooling in a full CICD environment. You’ll be participating in the design of scalable, best-in-class tooling, and you’ll strengthen the great company culture that we have in LearnUpon.

While our codebase is dominantly Ruby on Rails and Go for microservices, we welcome anyone with substantial development experience to be a part of our journey. We are not bound to our tech stack. We prefer choosing the right technology for the right problem so you’ll have plenty of space to grow your skills.

What will I be doing?

• Design and implement solutions that empower our engineering teams to deliver features efficiently and seamlessly
• Develop business-critical tools enabling cross-organizational teams to provide enterprise-level support to our customers
• Drive innovation by designing, building, and deploying scalable software solutions that create significant impact
• Elevate the level of craftsmanship in our codebase and system designs, setting new standards for quality
• Foster close collaboration with Platform, DevOps, and Automation teams, while partnering with Product Engineering and Business teams to deliver tailored tooling solutions
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and skill enhancement across architecture, tooling, and emerging technologies

What skills do I need?                                                                               

• 3+ years of experience in software design and development in programming language such as Ruby, Python, C#, Java
• Hands-on experience writing and shipping high-quality, distributed systems and client-server architectures.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases and query performance.
• Experience building applications using Rails, Django or equivalent frameworks.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks e.g. Stimulus, Angular, React.
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas to and collaborate with both technical and non-technical peers.
• Holistic approach in engineering problem solving keeping a high bar for software quality.
• A passion for craftsmanship.
• Owning the delivery throughout all phases of SDLC.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Experience collaborating with team members across time zones/locations to deliver solutions seamlessly.
• A track record of being a team player who works as well with non-technical stakeholders as your fellow developers.

Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!

Not required but considered a plus

• Experience with asynchronous job frameworks such Sidekiq.
• Experience with streaming data processing platforms like Apache Kafka.
• Previous experience working in a SaaS environment.
• Exposure to Amazon Web Services.
• Experience working in a CICD environment with a strong focus on quality.
• Previous experience of eLearning technologies. 
• Previous experience with containerisation and orchestration tooling such as docker and kubernetes.

Why work with us?

• Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular social events.
• Excellent career progression - take LearnUpon where you think it can go.
• Structured learning environment.
• Competitive salary and company ESOP.
• Employer Contributed Pension. 
• Private health insurance.
• 25 days annual leave + 1 annual company wellness day off.

What is the Hiring Process?

Applicants for the position can expect the following hiring process:

• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a 30-minute call.
• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews.
• Finally, candidates will have a short interview with our CEO/CTO.
• Successful candidates will be contacted with an offer to join our team.

Visit our Careers site to find out more about working for LearnUpon, and check us out on Instagram.