Senior Backend Engineer

Keelvar has an exciting opportunity to join our Engineering & Product Team as a Senior Backend Software Engineer. This role is remotely based in Ireland (ideally in Cork). 

Reporting to one of our Engineering Managers, you will be part of a critical group responsible for supporting and building new and existing features with a cross functional team. The successful candidate will join a group of engineers from different backgrounds including Software Dev, Data Science, UI and Product. 

• Work in a cross functional development team analysing product feature requests and designing solutions.
• Build andmaintainbackend services with a strong focus on performance, maintainability, and production-readiness.
• Take a hands-on approach to shipping high-quality code incrementally — we value learning through iteration over aiming for perfection upfront.
• Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions to ensure technical excellence and knowledge sharing.
• Work closely with the Product team to shape features that are valuable,feasible, and grounded inusersneeds.       
• Collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to ensure vision is delivered.

• Strong proficiency and at least 7 years of experience in software development, ideally developing SaaS solutions.
• Experience in Python and its ecosystem.
• Experience of working with CI/CD processes and in an agile, product led environment.
• Experience designing distributed services which can communicate in a fault-tolerant manner using both RESTful and event-driven APIs.
• Comfortable with DevOps practices, cloud environments (ideally AWS), and monitoring tools, you own your code in production.
• Product mindset: you think in terms of value to users, not just technical challenges, and you're willing to experiment to find what works.
• You are a deep thinker, you like to innovate, you like to solve problems creatively and quickly, and are passionate about technology and people.
• You thrive in an environment of mutual respect, openness and collaboration. You enjoy getting things done at a quick pace.

Here at Keelvar, we are proud to be a remote-first organisation and we offer some great perks including: 

• Competitive salary with a Series B backed, fast growing organisation.
• Pension 7.5%
• Health Insurance 
• 25 days PTO increasing to 26 after 3 years and increasing to 27 after 5 years.Plus a day off for your birthday.
• Flexible working hours with a positive approach to work - life balance.
• An inclusive, collaborative, innovative culture.
• Generous leave offerings including 2 CSR days.
• Technology that enables you to perform to your best