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Dublin, Ireland (HQ), Ireland
Onsite
Job Description:
Job Description
This is a hybrid role, requiring presence in our Dublin office three times per week.
The Opportunity:
At Workhuman, we’re on a mission to make work more human by helping organisations celebrate, connect, and empower their people. We’d love you to join our eCommerce Development team, where you’ll work alongside talented engineers, organised in Squads and based across multiple locations, to craft a seamless, engaging, and personalised shopping experience for our store’s end users.
With an agile, sprint-to-sprint mindset and an ambitious roadmap, you’ll contribute to key initiatives such as advancing our AWS Personalization Strategy, optimising store search with OpenSearch, tackling UI challenges, modernizing store technologies, and achieving release independence. This is your chance to contribute to how thousands of users interact with our platform, making every click intuitive, every journey effortless, and every experience memorable.
As a mid level frontend engineer, you’ll work closely with other Squad Engineers to help scope and deliver impactful features. You’ll have the chance to contribute to Front-End projects (React) that enhance our eCommerce Store.
Our Squads typically consist of 1x Principal Engineer, 3-4x Back-End, 1–2x Front-End, 1–2x QA, and 1x Automation QA and team members are spread across multiple locations. The Engineering Manager, who you’ll report into is based in Ireland.
Our eCommerce Squads are close-knit, collaborative, and passionate about enhancing the store (supporting ~7million users) and we’d love for you to join us.
Tech stack used by this team:
Java 17, Spring (Spring Boot, Spring Web Stack, Spring Data or Spring JDBC), RESTful webservices, Apache Camel, AWS, Terraform, API, Oracle, Postgres, NoSQL DB, PL/SQL, JMeter, Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Git, React, Docker/Containerization, Open Search, Kafka, Lambda.
What we can offer you:
An opportunity to work with distributed development team continuously delivering solutions that will enhance our SaaS platform capability.
An opportunity to partner with our business team and be part of the design discussions/decisions as well as implementing the designs.
An opportunity to contribute to sprint planning & backlog refinement sessions, daily stand-ups and retrospectives with our technology teams (Dev, Automated QA, UX/UI, Product)
An opportunity to work with our DevOps and Architecture teams to move to a continuous deployment model.
The skills you will bring:
You have 4+ years' experience building and maintaining modern web applications
Good experience with React and JavaScript/TypeScript
Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, responsive design, and modern frontend development practices
Experience building accessible user interfaces, including semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, and usability best practices
Experience integrating frontend applications with REST APIs
Familiarity with frontend testing approaches and writing maintainable, well-tested code
Comfortable working as part of an agile, cross-functional team
Exposure to AWS, CI/CD pipelines, or Java/Spring Boot environments is a bonus, but not required
Achievements:
Has participated in team design discussions by presenting and defending proposed solutions to technical stakeholders such as Senior Engineers or Principal Engineers.
You have collaborated openly with the team on shared items of work and communicated well in a team-oriented environment across locations.
Benefits:
25 days annual leave, increasing with years of service
Company plan VHI Health Care & Dental cover for employee and dependencies
A Pension commencing after probation period
Participation in Workhuman’s employee recognition programs
Discounted gift certificates
Discounted TaxSaver Travel cards/free car parking (subject to availability)
Income Protection
Life Assurance
Access to our Tuition Reimbursement Scheme
Access to Workhuman University
Additional ‘perks’ - Free grab and go breakfast and lunch options, fruit, tea/coffee, fantastic catered events and wellness activities throughout the year throughout the year etc
The Company:
At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We’re looking for a human who is collaborative, innovative with a growth mindset
We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.
We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large-sized workplace category. We were also recognised as the Best Workplace for Women and the Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium-sized workplace category.
We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as the Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work, and U.S. Best Places to Work.
There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.
Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation, and Imagination.
Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based solely on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.