Software Engineer

The Software Engineer is a key member of the Core Product Team responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining our Domains Product across both the legacy platform and the new v2 application. This role spans PHP/Laravel and Python/Django and extends to various backend Python services and applications that form part of the wider product ecosystem.

You will deliver high-quality, production ready features while understanding the business impact of engineering decisions, specially how they influence product revenue, customer satisfaction, and time-to-market. This role requires someone who can work collaboratively across departments to improve product stability, service reliability, and technical capability. What you'll do Product Engineering & Feature Delivery

• Work closely with the Product Owner to refine requirements and optimise time-to-market for business-critical features.
• Design, develop, and maintain product features using PHP/Laravel, Python/Django, and other backend Python services within the ecosystem.
• Contribute to both the new v2 platform and selective enhancements on the v1 platform.
• Build and evolve backend components that integrate across the ecosystem (APIs, services, data flows).
• Deliver high-quality features that support commercial objectives and revenue growth.

Quality Engineering & Testing

• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following modern software standards.
• Conduct and participate in code reviews, pair programming, and technical design discussions.
• Support automated testing across PHP and Python-based services (unit, integration, contract, functional).
• Validate end-to-end flows across the multi-application ecosystem to ensure robustness and stability.
• Integrate, triage, and remediate findings from Application Security Testing tools such as SonarQube.

Deployment, DevOps & Operational Readiness

• Collaborate with DevOps to integrate build pipelines, versioning, environment configuration, and secure deployment workflows.
• Ensure observability, logging, metrics, and alerting are built into every feature.
• Participate in performance tuning, scaling improvements, and operational hardening of backend services.
• Contribute to runbooks, monitoring dashboards, and operational readiness documentation.

Collaboration & Team Culture

• Work as part of a unified cross-functional team with Product, DevOps, QA, and Support Services.
• Engage in continuous feedback loops to reduce rework and accelerate delivery.
• Participate in monthly Show & Tells, alignment ceremonies, and planning sessions.
• Help capture, document, and improve currently undocumented business and technical flows across the ecosystem.

• Strong hands-on experience in PHP/Laravel and Python/Django (both required or strong willingness to cross-skill).
• Experience with backend Python services (APIs, microservices, scripts, integrations).
• Solid understanding of authentication, session management, API design, and backend architecture patterns.
• Experience working with SAST/DAST tools including interpreting, prioritising, and remediating security findings.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Docker, Git, automated testing frameworks, and cloud deployment patterns.
• Ability to debug complex issues across distributed systems and multi-application ecosystems.
• Strong product mindset able to balance engineering quality with commercial urgency and time-to-market.
• Clear communicator who collaborates well across technical and non-technical domains.
• Proactive, pragmatic, and solution-focused with a high sense of ownership.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, evolving environment with shifting priorities.

Experience

• 2-4 years of software development experience in a product or platform environment.
• Experience working across multiple backend technologies and services.
• Exposure to platform migrations, legacy modernisation, or multi-system integration is a strong plus.
• Exposure to production operations, incident management, or product support environments is beneficial.

• Four weeks per year to work from anywhere for eligible employees.
• Gym reimbursement.
• Company bus applicable for employees based in Málaga city.
• Learning Pocket for personal development.
• A hybrid working model with flexible hours.
• 3 volunteering paid days each year.
• Generous referral bonus programme.

Ilkari is a privately-held start-up based in Dublin, Ireland. We deliver hyper-private scale innovation and technology to safeguard and secure data, enabling true data sovereignty even as the pace of change accelerates. Our best-in-breed sovereign technology delivers privacy and control over where companies' data resides, where it flows, and how it's accessed.