Job Description:

The Opportunity

Workhuman iQ is our AI-powered people analytics and cultural intelligence platform. It transforms millions of real recognition moments into actionable insights that help us understand skills, retention, engagement, and inclusivity across the business. With real time dashboards and an embedded AI Assistant, iQ gives leaders and teams instant visibility into cultural health, performance trends, and talent strengths without needing analysts or complex tools.

You’ll be joining the WHIQ team, a cross-functional Squad of engineers bringing together expertise across Machine Learning, Backend, Frontend, and QA. The team owns and develops the user experience for the Workhuman iQ application as well as the people leader focused team analytics with customer facing experiences. They are responsible for designing, building, deploying, and maintaining high quality features that bring Workhuman's vision to life for our customers. This includes close collaboration across engineering, product, and design to deliver intuitive, performant, and scalable solutions. As a Senior Engineer (FE), you’ll play a key role in shaping technical direction while also mentoring and supporting your teammates.

Tech stack:

React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL, SQL, Redis, Terraform, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CodeArtifact, Git, AWS (ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, Neptune, CloudFront, ALB)

** This is a hybrid role which requires at least 3 days a week onsite in our Dublin office**

What we can offer you:

The Senior Software Engineer is a proven strong IC with your impact being felt across the squad and team, and you also contribute to cross-department initiatives.

You are viewed as a role model to other engineers and actively mentor less experienced engineers on the team by providing guidance and support when needed.

You are an expert in frontend technology stacks with working knowledge in backend.

You’ll engage with stakeholders and collaborate with key experts to shape the right technical solutions that deliver real customer value.

You’ll get to lead technically while working alongside design and product to shape impactful solutions.

The skills you bring:

You have deep expertise in frontend development using React, TypeScript, and JavaScript, with a strong focus on building performant, accessible, and maintainable user interfaces.

You demonstrate strong problem-solving and debugging skills, taking ownership of complex issues and driving them to resolution.

You’re able to lead technical discussions, influence architectural decisions, and mentor engineers to raise the overall technical bar.

You value clean, scalable code and advocate for best practices in testing, performance, and accessibility.

(Good to have) You bring experience with data analytics UIs, data visualisation, or interactive dashboards.

(Good to have) You have experience with AWS services (ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, Neptune, CloudFront) and DevOps tools (Terraform, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CodeArtifact) to build and maintain reliable delivery pipelines.

(Good to have) You have experience using Git and best practices in version control, CI/CD, and collaborative software development.

Benefits:

25 days annual leave, increasing with years of service

Company plan VHI Health Care & Dental cover for employee, partner and children

Pension commencing from day one and matched up to 5% after the probation period.

Income Protection

Life Assurance

We live our values and that includes being super-users of our own recognition program, Workhuman Spark®.

Discounted gift certificates

Discounted TaxSaver Travel cards/free car parking (subject to availability)

Access to Workhuman University

Workhuman employees are offered up to one paid day volunteering per year.

Access to a fully equipped, state of the art onsite gym and fitness area with shower facilities

Ability to participate in onsite regular gym classes led by professional instructors including spin, yoga, and HIIT

The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is a confidential service available to all Workhuman employees from your first day of employment and is free of charge.

Free breakfast cereal, fruit, pastries, tea/coffee, lunch, fantastic catered events 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.

Did you know we have an award-winning culture across EMEA and North America:

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.

Senior Software Engineer (React)

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