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# Senior Staff Software Engineer (Exclusive)

- **Company:** Ocho People
- **Location:** Belfast, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £90,000.0 - £120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Audit Trail, C++ (Programming Language), D3.Js, Data Visualization, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Open Source Technology, Ruby, Standard Sql, Tableau (Software), Scripting, Spring-boot, Electronic Medical Records, Cloudformation, Looker Analytics
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5834447640

## About the Role

* 7+ years building and supporting scalable, distributed systems with open-source tools
 * Hands-on OOP experience (Java/C++) plus a scripting language (Python/Ruby)
 * Experience writing complex SQL (PostgreSQL a plus)
 * Experience with an API framework such as Spring Boot
 * Experience with a public cloud provider, AWS preferred
 * Prior technical leadership or mentoring experience

Desirable:

 * Deeper AWS experience: CloudFormation, EMR, S3, EC2, CloudTrail
 * Experience with data visualisation tools such as D3.js, Tableau or Looker

## Description

As Lead Engineer for the Portal Reports and Insights application team, you'll design and implement distributed, fault-tolerant systems powering reporting and analytics used by clients worldwide, systems that run nearly 10,000 reports every week. You'll lead software initiatives from concept to delivery, set the technical bar for the team, and mentor engineers as you go., * Design and implement distributed, fault-tolerant reporting and insights systems

 * Lead software initiatives end-to-end, from conception through to delivery
 * Drive engineering best practice across the wider team
 * Build analytical dashboards and data visualisations used directly by clients
 * Mentor engineers and support their technical growth
 * Partner cross-team to keep performance and reliability high at scale


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