Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Summary

Join Tines, a Dublin-based workflow automation platform company, as a Senior Software Engineer. You will play a key role in scaling the backend job processing engine, contributing to the company's growth and impacting its technical direction and product. This role offers the opportunity to make significant contributions in a collaborative environment, working on projects that improve action throughput, create customer-facing controls, optimize data storage, and enhance observability. The position requires 6+ years of professional software engineering experience and a proven track record of success as a senior engineer. While familiarity with Ruby and TypeScript is a plus, it's not mandatory; Tines values curiosity and a willingness to learn. The company offers a supportive and inclusive work environment with a focus on work-life balance.

Requirements

• Roughly 6+ years as a professional software engineer
• Proven track record of success as a senior software engineer
• Direct experience of building and delivering software using a high-level programming language
• Feel very comfortable working at the level of technical complexity involved in adding features to a small command-line app

Responsibilities

• Work closely with colleagues to build the right solutions to the problems our customers face
• Make valuable changes in our codebase in your first week, and see them live in production minutes after merging them
• Shape how workflow execution happens at the very heart of our system, to help us power the world’s most important workflows
• Write and review high quality, well tested code to ensure that we’re creating a stable product for our customers, and a stress-free codebase for ourselves
• Identify areas for improvement, both in our codebase and in how we work, and share the responsibility of making our team better
• Own the problems you’re solving - and the software you write to solve them - all the way to production and beyond, responding to customer feedback to improve those solutions
• Use your knowledge to mentor other engineers in our team, providing support and guidance to help them grow their abilities
• Improve action throughput to meet our growing customers’ scale
• Create internal and customer facing controls that allow Tines and our customers to configure job prioritization levels, ensuring the most critical workflows are executed in a timely manner
• Optimize the storage and search of customers’ event data
• Ensure jobs are executed in a balanced and fair manner, particularly on multitenant stacks
• Enhance Tines' observability by introducing new features that empower customers to monitor the status and latency of their workflows and receive proactive alerts about potential issues
• Write a blog post to share something interesting we learned with the community

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with Ruby and TypeScript

Benefits

• We’ll cover the cost of education material to bring you up to speed
• We work reasonable hours, we take our holidays and we plan our workloads realistically
• Your contributions will be obvious
• We’re building an inclusive, supportive team
• Fully remote work from anywhere in an EST state with a preference for being based in the Greater Boston Area
• Use of Tines office space in downtown Boston