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Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and scale customer-facing backend products and services for the Journey Data team.
- Develop backend systems using Java and Spring Boot.
- Design NoSQL data models and access patterns for high-throughput, low-latency workloads.
- Implement resilient distributed microservice architectures using patterns such as circuit breakers, bulkheads, rate limiting, and retries.
- Build event-driven services and REST APIs deployed on AWS cloud technologies.
- Own services end-to-end from technical design through production observability.
- Optimize performance and troubleshoot production systems at scale.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide technical leadership.
- Collaborate with product, design, QA, and other teams to deliver shared outcomes.
- Participate in infrastructure-as-code ownership, on-call rotations, and incident response as applicable.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of industry experience in software engineering.
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
- Advanced proficiency with Java and Spring Boot for backend systems.
- Advanced proficiency with unit, integration, and user-acceptance testing.
- Experience with NoSQL database design, access patterns, and data modeling.
- Experience with resiliency patterns, distributed microservices, event-driven architecture, REST APIs, and AWS.
- Experience with CI/CD processes and technologies.
- Experience designing and owning services through production deployment and observability.
- Experience with performance optimization and production troubleshooting at scale.
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.
- Proven leadership delivering complex software projects from concept through production.
- Strong collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Desirable experience with AWS services including EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, IAM, and CloudFormation.
- Desirable experience with Jenkins, Terraform, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, Sumo Logic, Kafka, Avro, Resilience4j, and Swagger/OpenAPI.
- Desirable experience with JavaScript or TypeScript, Python, and Groovy.
- Experience using AI tooling as a copilot for production-ready code is desirable.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, multi-environment deployments, on-call rotations, and incident response is desirable.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work options with work-from-home flexibility and typically two to three office days per week in the Galway office.
- Continuous learning, mentoring, career development, leadership development, and education support.
- Employer-supported pension scheme.
- Annual bonus program.
- Private health insurance, dental plan, and wellness supports.
- Income Protection, Life Assurance, and access to financial planning resources.
- Generous paid maternity and paternity policies.
- Paid volunteer time, August Free Fridays, and well-being resources.
- A flexible-first culture within a global organization.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSGroovyJavaJavaScriptJenkinsPythonSpring BootSumo LogicTerraformTypeScript
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About Genesys
Genesys® empowers more than 8,000 organizations worldwide to create the best customer and employee experiences. With agentic AI at its core, Genesys Cloud™ is the AI-Powered Experience Orchestration platform that connects people, systems and data across the enterprise to driver customer loyalty, business growth and operational efficiency. We’re building AI where it matters, empowering employees to shape the future of customer experience through meaningful, real-world innovation. To learn more, visit www.genesys.com.