Workhuman

Job Description:

Hi, we're Workhuman,

We help our customers build world-class cultures and it starts with our own. Ours is a culture of recognition, celebration, and conversations. Our people are our greatest assets. We celebrate them. We thank them. We support their growth and development. And, hey, we’re growing! Now is the perfect time to join us.

The Opportunity: 

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to work in an agile environment on our Conversations product which offers a continuous performance development solution with a full spectrum of feedback, check-ins, and priorities to develop the talent of any team. The Conversations product enables managers and employees to have better, more meaningful, continuous conversations facilitating an employee’s learning, development and performance growth as well as improve the manager-employee relationship. Managers receive a broader perspective of their employees’ performance through lightweight Check-ins and Priorities tracking which guides them as they coach their employees. The Conversations team works with multiple clients and is responsible for delivering key feature enhancements and improvements to ensure we deliver a client focused product. 

You will use your creativity as well as technical and business skills in this fast-paced environment. You will experience great culture in a rapidly scaling company while using world class technologies. 

If this sounds like your kind of thing, apply today! We would love to give you a bit more context around who we are & what we are building! 

We are interested in you because you have a continuous learning mindset and are interested in leading advancement technically and functionally. While the role is primarily back-end focused, there are opportunities to work across the full stack from UI to end data points. 

Tech stack: Java 8, Spring, RESTful webservices, Docker, Apache Camel, ActiveMQ, Tomcat 9, AWS, API, Oracle DB, PL/SQL, JMeter, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Git.

The value you will deliver: 

• You will work with a distributed development team continuously delivering solutions that will enhance our SaaS platform capability 
• You will partner with our UX/UI team and be part of the design discussions/decisions as well as implementing the designs 
• You have an agile mindset, valuing respect, collaboration, continuous improvement and learning cycles, pride in ownership, focus on delivering value, flow and the ability to adapt to change 
• You will contribute to sprint planning & backlog refinement sessions, daily stand-ups and retrospectives with our technology teams (Dev, Automated QA, UX/UI, Product) 
• You will work with our DevOps and Architecture teams to move to a continuous deployment model 
• You collaborate openly with the team on shared items of work and communicate well in a team-oriented environment across locations 
• You share your knowledge and enjoy mentoring other team members 
• You are a thought leader and love to guide the technical direction of the team 

The skills you will bring: 

• You have 5+ years working on application design and development in enterprise applications with the following: Java, OOP, JEE stack/Spring, JMS and Camel 
• You are familiar with RESTful as an API design 
• You have good Database application development experience with SQL or NoSQL databases 
• A knowledge of Linux and shell scripting is an advantage 
• You have experience with git or other version control tools 
• You have experience with automated unit and integration testing 
• You develop in accordance with best software engineering practice, helping to define development standards for the team 
• You have excellent communication skills – verbal and written – with the ability to communicate effectively with business partners and understand their requirements

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 breakfast cereal, fruit, tea/coffee, fantastic catered events and wellness activities throughout the year etc.

Check out our careers page to find out more about #LifeatWorkhuman

Did you know:

• We have an award winning culture, we were named as #2 Great Place to Work in Ireland in 2021 large-sized workplace, up from #4 in 2020 in the same category having previously placed #1 in the medium-sized workplace category in 2019. We are also recognised as one of Irelands Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place to Work in both 2021 and 2020.
• There are currently over 5 million users on Workhuman® across 160 countries. 
• In 2020 Workhuman became only the third Irish founded company to achieve Unicorn Status.
• Our core values are; Respect, Determination, Innovation and Imagination.

At Workhuman, 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. 

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 on 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.