Software Engineer

Ocho People is delighted to be working exclusively with a global SaaS technology leader whose platform helps some of the world's biggest brands and retailers create smarter digital shopping experiences.

This is an exciting opportunity to join their engineering team working on a large-scale content syndication platform that distributes ratings, reviews and user-generated content across billions of products globally.

The Opportunity

You'll join a high-performing engineering team solving complex challenges at scale, building modern cloud-native systems used by millions of consumers every day. This is a role for an engineer who enjoys ownership, strong engineering standards and real technical impact.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build and enhance scalable backend services and distributed systems
• Develop high-quality software using TDD and clean engineering practices
• Collaborate with senior, principal and cross-functional teams
• Own delivery of new features and technical improvements
• Support production systems, monitoring and incident resolution
• Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practice
• Contribute to cloud-native and event-driven architecture decisions

• 5+ years commercial software engineering experience
• Strong backend development skills in Java, JavaScript or TypeScript
• Experience building systems in cloud environments
• Exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or DynamoDB
• Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Strong communication skills and collaborative mindset

Desirable: AWS serverless, Kafka, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Terraform.

• Work on products used by global household-name brands
• Solve genuine scale and performance challenges
• Strong engineering culture focused on quality and innovation
• Hybrid working from Belfast office
• Clear progression opportunities within a global business
• Collaborative team with strong technical leadership

Package

• Highly competitive salary
• Bonus potential
• Private healthcare
• Pension contribution
• Flexible hybrid working
• Learning & development support