(Senior or Staff) Backend Engineer, AI tooling

Team: IT

Location: Ireland

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Own the architecture, development, deployment, and long-term evolution of developer platform and AI tooling capabilities.
• Lead multi-quarter technical projects, breaking complex initiatives into clear milestones and delivering measurable improvements iteratively.
• Build and operate systems covering developer productivity, CI/CD, observability and engineering metrics, code quality automation, testing infrastructure, and AI-assisted development.
• Lead the adoption and effective use of AI-powered developer tools and capabilities across engineering teams.
• Define technical direction for your area, anticipating longer-term challenges and developing scalable solutions and engineering capabilities.
• Partner with engineering leadership on roadmap and technical strategy, providing technical recommendations, challenging requirements where appropriate, and identifying alternative approaches.
• Mentor engineers through design collaboration, code reviews, technical guidance, and strong engineering practices.
• Take ownership of the operational health of systems, using data and feedback to guide improvements, maintenance, iteration, and deprecation.
• Ensure integrations with third-party APIs, SaaS products, and external platforms are reliable, secure, maintainable, and provide a strong developer experience.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2–3+ years operating at Senior or Staff level.
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating developer platforms, developer tooling, CI/CD systems, observability or metrics infrastructure, code quality automation, testing infrastructure, or related engineering systems.
• Demonstrated experience delivering infrastructure or tooling that measurably improves developer velocity, productivity, quality, or reduces engineering complexity.
• Previous experience leading the adoption of AI-powered developer tools or capabilities across an engineering organization.
• Experience working within a high-performing engineering environment, such as a scale-up or established technology organization, with a strong understanding of how infrastructure decisions affect developer productivity and product quality.
• Experience integrating third-party services, APIs, SaaS tools, or external platforms into internal systems, with strong attention to reliability, security, maintainability, and user experience.
• Strong understanding of how platform and infrastructure investments enable broader product and commercial outcomes.
• Experience owning significant technical areas end to end, including architecture, implementation, operations, and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions, work effectively with leadership, and mentor other engineers.
• High degree of autonomy, sound technical judgment, and the ability to make pragmatic trade-offs while knowing when to involve stakeholders or escalate decisions.

Benefits:

• Starting base salary of €130,000 / £130,000 / CHF 130,000, depending on location and applicable currency.
• Equity in the form of RSUs.
• Full-time employment; contractor arrangements are not available.
• Remote work options available in Romania, subject to applicable employment, compliance, and right-to-work requirements.
• 25 days of annual leave, plus applicable local public holidays.
• Employment typically managed through an international employment provider where required.
• Opportunity to work on AI-driven developer tooling with broad technical ownership and organizational impact.
• Collaboration with highly experienced engineering teams working at the forefront of AI-enabled software development.
• Visa sponsorship may be available for eligible candidates already located in a UK/EU country who require support; relocation is not provided.