Software Engineer

Software Engineer (Workbench Engineering Team, Full-Stack) Ireland Remote

Are you passionate about building impactful, efficient, and intuitive user experiences? Do you thrive in a remote, collaborative environment and enjoy tackling complex technical challenges? If so, the Workbench Engineering Team at Expel in Ireland wants you!

You're excited by the challenge of enhancing the Expel Workbench platform for our analysts and customers. You enjoy collaborating with product managers and UX designers to translate requirements into technical implementations. You're comfortable working across the full stack, from front-end development using Ember.js or React.js to back-end development with technologies such as Node.js, Python or Go. You value clean code, thorough code reviews, and contributing to a supportive team environment.

The Workbench Engineering Team is dedicated to elevating the Expel Workbench experience. You will be instrumental in shaping the future of this platform, empowering our analysts and customers with an even more effective and intuitive tool. You will help to build our team culture, align with our shared goals, and work alongside other teams to achieve common objectives, drawing on their collective expertise.

Our team values inclusivity, innovation through rapid iteration, and intelligent execution. If this sounds like the kind of team you'd like to join, we’d love to hear from you!

What Expel can do for you

• Give you sophisticated, real-world problems on which to use your skills and experience.
• Develop your expertise in full-stack web application development using current technologies like Ember.js, React.js, Node.js, Python, Go.
• Increase your exposure to the information security space and security products.
• Experience a growing, highly transparent startup environment.

What you can do for Expel

• Build and maintain critical features of the Expel Workbench, directly enhancing the analyst and customer experience.
• Translate product requirements into technical implementations, collaborating with product managers and UX designers.
• Deliver high-quality, clean, and maintainable code, adhering to coding standards and participating in code reviews.
• Collaborate across teams (User Experience, Product, Core Engineering, Data, and Product Security) to solve complex engineering challenges.
• Ensure system reliability and performance by monitoring, fixing, and optimising production applications.
• Contribute to a positive and supportive team culture, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
• Take ownership of collaborative practices, actively participating in pair programming and design discussions.

What you should bring with you

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and experience building complex web applications using modern frameworks (Ember.js and React.js).
• Proven experience with Node.js and at least one other relevant programming language (Python and Go).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, including version control (Git), CI/CD tools, and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience writing and maintaining automated tests (unit and integration tests).
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills (in English).
• Ability to work effectively remotely within a team and across departments.
• 3+ years of professional experience in web application development in large-scale, complex systems.
• Computer Science degree or software development bootcamp certification preferred.
• Adaptability and a willingness to learn new technologies.

How We Run Teams

We build and run teams where everyone is pulling in the same direction and is learning from each other.

• We work from our shared backlog
• We peer-review everything
• We regularly pair-program
• We hold regular blame-free retrospectives

If you're interested in the position, apply here and we can catch up.