Software Development Engineer II

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland.

📋 Description

• Engage in all stages of the software development life cycle, which encompasses requirements gathering with Product Managers, technical design, estimation, sprint planning, coding, testing, deployments, and on-call support.

• Take ownership, operate, and maintain team services within a distributed production environment.

• Design and implement real-time services that meet high throughput and low latency criteria.

• Verify, deploy, and operationalize services effectively.

• Collaborate closely with stakeholders to comprehend customer needs and deliver straightforward, robust, and scalable solutions.

• Work together with leads, architects, and cross-functional teams through comprehensive technical documentation.

• Scale a complex distributed platform featuring globally distributed points of presence, ensuring high availability, reliability, throughput, low latency, and media fidelity.

• Create innovative solutions to customer challenges in the Voice channel.

• Travel occasionally for project or team meetings in person.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 2+ years of practical experience in a large-scale, distributed applications environment utilizing JVM-based technologies.

• Experience in building RESTful services, designing APIs, and implementing event-driven architectures (such as Kafka and SQS).

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure including AWS, GCP, OpenStack, or Azure.

• Exceptional written communication skills, crucial for effective AI prompting and producing clear technical documentation (with or without AI support).

• Proven capability to critically assess AI-generated code regarding correctness, security, performance, and maintainability.

• Strong Java fundamentals, with the ability to architect, review, and debug code authored by yourself, colleagues, or AI agents.

• Demonstrated expertise in working with AI coding assistants (such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) - you should be able to articulate your workflows and provide examples.

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.

• Strong foundational knowledge in Computer Science, including data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.

• Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment.

• Experience with on-call rotations, incident response, and monitoring/alerting tools (like Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana) is preferred.

• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and caching technologies is preferred.

• Experience in scaling production backend systems is preferred.

• Knowledge and experience with the SIP protocol is preferred.

• Knowledge and experience with the Stir/Shaken protocol is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Generous time-off policy.

• Ample parental and wellness leave.

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage.

• Retirement savings plan.

• Support for employee volunteering and donation initiatives.