Isla supports the health and care system to evolve and use new types of media within the medical record.
Lead Backend Engineer
Location
Ireland
Posted
115 days ago
Salary
€92K - €110K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Lead Backend Engineer
Islacare
• Own the platform & infrastructure: Lead the architecture, security, and stability of our GCP platform, ensuring it is built for 100% YoY growth. • Lead the backend team: Manage and inspire a high-performance team of senior and mid-level backend engineers (3-5 people), fostering a culture of engineering excellence that balances pace with uncompromising quality. • Drive platform efficiency: Act as the primary steward for technical cost-optimisation and resource management, ensuring the platform scales efficiently as our user base grows. • Architect complex integrations: Design robust systems to handle deep integrations with external partner APIs, managing diverse authentication mechanisms and resilient data patterns. • Drive technical strategy: Act as a key partner to the CTO and Director of Engineering (currently also being hired), aligning technical execution with business objectives. • Embed operational excellence: Refine best-in-class engineering practices - including IaC via Terraform, CI/CD, and security audit readiness - to prevent major production incidents. • Lead AI workflows: Act as an authority to drive agentic workflows forwards across the team
Job Requirements
- Proven technical leadership: Experience as a Lead or Senior Engineer, ideally having managed scaling challenges in a high-growth startup.
- GCP & platform mastery: Deep hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
- Backend expertise: Expert-level understanding of Node.js and TypeScript.
- Integration experience: Comfortable architecting platforms that interact with diverse third-party APIs and robust authentication protocols.
- People management: A passion for mentoring and managing engineers.
Benefits
- Flexible working times
- Work abroad for up to 90 days per year
- 25 days annual leave (on top of public holidays)
- Take your birthday off
- Take Christmas Eve off too
- Generous well-being perks
- An annual learning budget to support your growth
- Delivering social impact through improved patient healthcare
- Working at a well funded and rapidly growing start up, solving a global problem in a new way
- A whole lot of fun on an exciting journey
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