Senior Backend Platform Engineer

About the role

You will join a fast‑growing tech company in Cork, working directly with the Head of Platform Engineering. The focus is on building internal services, tools and frameworks that power the entire engineering organisation, with a strong emphasis on AI‑enabled platform capabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement core platform components such as Auth & Identity, Messaging Infrastructure, Shared Libraries & SDKs.
• Develop agentic/AI tooling, workflows and developer‑experience tooling.
• Contribute to design‑system components and product‑enabling platform features.
• Collaborate across multiple engineering teams to ensure platform reliability and scalability.
• Maintain cloud‑native, event‑driven architectures using Docker and Kubernetes (or Azure Container Apps).

Required profile

• Recent production experience (within the last 6 months) in one or more of: Python, Node.js, TypeScript, C#.
• Proven track record building platforms, services or internal tools used by several engineering teams.
• Experience with cloud‑native distributed systems and decoupled event‑messaging patterns.
• Hands‑on experience deploying and operating Docker containers and Kubernetes (or Azure Container Apps) in production.
• Willingness to work on‑site three days a week in Cork.

Required skills

• Python
• Node.js
• TypeScript
• C#
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Azure Container Apps
• Cloud‑native distributed systems
• Event‑driven messaging architectures

What we offer

• Hybrid work model (3 days onsite in Cork).
• Flexible, talent‑led salary package.
• Opportunity to shape modern AI‑powered platform capabilities.