Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

About Us:

VisibleThread is a growing technology business that is expanding at a rapid rate. Our Language Analysis Platform changes the way organizations do business by reducing risk, improving efficiencies and ensuring compliance.

As a product company we have embraced the opportunities provided by generative AI and are partnering with some of our largest customers to integrate the VisibleThread platform with some of the most widely available AI infrastructure, e.g. Ollama, AWS Bedrock, AzureAI .

Some of our major customers include Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Collins Aerospace and the Canadian Government, to name but a few.

Our Approach to Remote Work:

VisibleThread takes a flexible hybrid approach to remote work. Our team are free to work from either our office in Dublin city centre or from their home provided they have a suitable working environment and internet connectivity. Each member of our team must be available to come to the office once a Month for in person workshops.

Note: We will only consider applications from individuals resident in Ireland and who have permission to work in Ireland. We cannot sponsor indivduals for work permits or visas.

Our team:

We hire energetic, creative, and passionate people who can work together to drive serious value for our customers. A career with VisibleThread is both rewarding and challenging. We are a fun team, with a flat structure and we offer fantastic career development opportunities to grow within our organization as we expand.

Our engineers don’t just write code, they take product ideas and shape them into working product releases. Joining our team will give you the opportunity to work with some of the largest companies in the world and shape the next generation of our product line.

What will you be doing:

• Working within a scrum team and reporting to a technical lead, implement new features and optimize existing ones to deliver better user experience and performance
• Take the lead in backlog review sessions and design solutions incorporating multiple components and systems

• Enhance monitoring systems for on-premise and cloud systems
• Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from other engineers, and delivery leads
• Attend daily stand-up meetings, collaborate with your peers, prioritize features
• Work with our customers compliance and security teams to ensure our products meet their standards

• Build API's to allow customers to integrate with our platform
• Work with other senior engineers, tech leads and delivery leads to review and improve our internal processes.

What will you be working with?

Our technology stack is constantly evolving but at its core we work with:

• Java, Spring MVC, JPA, Spring Security

• React JS, Jest
• Postgres RDMS, and pgvector
• Ubuntu, RHEL, AWS, Windows
• Jenkins
• GIT
• Ollama and Mistral LLM

• Gradle

Requirements

We don't expect our engineers to know everything however we do ask that they want to learn. Key skills would include:

• 6+ years building web applications with Java Spring and related technologies working in an Agile team
• Strong background in clean code, test driven development and code quality
• Experience decomposing product requirements into incremental deliverable units
• Experience profiling web applications to identify opportunities to improve performance
• Relational Database schema design, preferably with Postgres

• Secure programming experience, knowledge of OWASP top 10 
• Experience working with Linux
• Familiarity with Jenkins CI pipelines
• Famliarity with React JS
• Experience working with Spring MVC, JPA, Spring Security, Tomcat

Benefits

• Remote work first
• Agile development philosophy
• Unlimited access to training

• A supportive place to work with incredible teams worldwide
• Genuine career progression opportunities
• Attractive remuneration package
• 100% paid private medical insurance
• Monthly “all hands” and other team-building events

• Competitive annual leave entitlement