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Staff Engineer (Java) - Belfast
£30,000 - 60,000
Ocho
Callender Street, Belfast + Remote
£30,000 - 60,000
Requirements
Must:
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Deep expertise in Java and the Spring ecosystem
- Strong backend engineering background with solid experience in relational databases (ideally PostgreSQL)
- Experience navigating complex or legacy domains where architecture is continuously evolving
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams or product areas
- Ownership mindset across design, implementation, and operational support
- Comfortable collaborating across Product, Platform, SRE, Support, and Engineering leadership
- Excellent communication skills, able to build trust and alignment
- Pragmatic decision-maker balancing speed, quality, and long-term system health
- Experience with Angular or modern JavaScript frameworks (nice-to-have)
- Background working with data-heavy systems, analytics, or performance-critical workloads (nice-to-have)
- Familiarity with AWS, DevOps tooling, or SRE practices (nice-to-have)
- Exposure to regulated, compliance-driven, or operationally complex products (nice-to-have)
Responsibilities
- Operate as a Staff-level technical leader across a complex, multi-service product ecosystem
- Shape backend architecture and system-level designs across Java and Spring-based services
- Lead high-impact engineering initiatives focused on scalability, performance, and operational resilience
- Act as a trusted authority for complex technical decisions and domain-wide challenges
- Partner with Product to translate workflows and requirements into robust distributed systems
- Collaborate with Platform, DevOps, and Reliability functions to strengthen observability and operational maturity
- Reduce legacy complexity by addressing architectural gaps, bottlenecks, and technical debt
- Raise engineering standards through pairing, design reviews, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing
Description
We are a US-based software provider serving major Academic and Sporting organizations, where technology is integral to daily operations at scale. Our remote-first environment features a Belfast engineering hub for collaboration and team events. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a senior technical leader in our core product area. This role offers a deep backend focus on Java-based distributed systems and offers benefits such as the ability to work from home and bonus opportunities.
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