Software Engineer

Summary

Join Twilio's Commerce Platform - Billing Insights Team as a Software Engineer. This role involves designing, building, and operating core platform services at a massive scale, transitioning the platform to a next-generation architecture. You will work with AWS cloud infrastructure, APIs, and other technologies to build high-quality, innovative software. Responsibilities include improving distributed systems, implementing new features, troubleshooting issues, and executing the full software development life cycle. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in Java/Spring Boot, object-oriented programming, and frontend development, along with strong communication and collaboration skills. This remote position is based in Ireland and may require occasional travel.

Requirements

• 2+ years of work experience building highly scalable products
• 2+ years of programming experience in Java/Spring Boot with clean code practices
• Expert knowledge in Object-Oriented Programming with a successful track record
• Experience contributing to architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience contributing to frontend development using React, Javascript or TypeScript
• Experience working with stakeholders at all levels - be able to dive into the nuts-and-bolts of how things work as needed
• Collaborating with internal/external teams/engineers and fostering an inclusive environment, where all points of view are welcomed and encouraged
• Own and lead multiple domains of the platform (microservices, REST APIs, infrastructure) from inception to deployment and maintenance, while making best in class technical decisions that impact the success of the company
• Familiarity with Cloud Solutions, AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD pipelines, Testing & Automation
• Self drive - you take complete ownership of your tasks and champion efforts to get your tasks to completion
• Clear written and spoken communication skills
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Improve your knowledge of highly available and scalable distributed systems and use this knowledge to build new features into our platform
• Design, implement, and manage both new features for existing services and new services built from scratch, including user interface components
• Leverage your excellent communication and written skills to articulate the "why" of the solution you are proposing, and have a good understanding of your team’s priorities and the customer impact
• Troubleshoot and fix operational issues and have the opportunity to improve the troubleshooting procedures and tools
• Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Develop flowcharts and documentation to identify solutions
• Write well-designed, testable code
• Document and maintain software functionality
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with on-call support for mission-critical data systems
• Experience in data modeling and database management, for example: RDS, Aurora, ClickHouse or Redshift
• Experience in building ETL pipelines and data transformation processes
• Good debugging skills on production systems
• Proficient in Linux and containerization with Kubernetes
• Nice to have skills: gRPC, GraphQL, Python, Apache Kafka

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Generous time off
• Ample parental and wellness leave
• Healthcare
• A retirement savings program