Senior Software Engineer - Daft.ie

What’s the Opportunity

Daft.ie is Ireland’s largest property portal, with a mission to make buying and selling property simple for everyone across the country. With over 3 million users visiting our website and apps every month, we’re driven by the opportunity to enhance the home buying and selling experience. If you’re excited to do impactful work that reaches hundreds of thousands of people daily, this could be the perfect role for you.

We are seeking to recruit a Backend focused Senior Software Engineer to join one of our Daft.ie development teams. The successful candidate must have a passion for building phenomenal software and will thrive in a fun, fast paced and challenging environment. 

You’ll be part of one of our multi-functional delivery teams and work closely with product owners, and like minded software engineers. We encourage everyone for their input and rely on people’s experience to further improve our process and products.

You will be able to work with the latest technologies and help build some of the most well-known and visited websites in the country. You’ll get to use your experience to develop our engineering process, influence decisions when building new features and ensure the scalability and availability of the platforms.

* This is a remote-first position within Ireland.

What will I be doing

Software Engineers at Distilled build the core services to support our different products, websites and apps. We strive to use the best technologies for a job and are continuously upgrading our technology stack.

Here’s just some of the things you’ll work on:

• Take responsibility for defining and delivering the solutions for complex features for the Daft platform

• Work independently and mentor junior team members successfully

• Always strive to ensure our codebase is clean, scalable and secure

• Be an advocate for coding standards within the team

• Keep abreast of new technologies and ways of working. Exploring generative AI opportunities to help build better products faster

• Work with other like minded developers as part of an Agile team.

• Work closely with our product and site reliability teams. 

Requirements

What skills and experience do I need

• At least 8 years proven ability in a similar role.

• Excellent knowledge of Java and Object Oriented design principles.

• Experience and understanding of IoC and ORM frameworks.

• Solid understanding of databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB.

• Experience building RESTful APIs using Spring

• Very familiar with and a daily user of AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Cursor

• A self-starter with an analytical approach who is comfortable working on their own initiative and handling their time effectively.

• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork and collaboration skills.

• A passion for technology and a hunger to adopt new industry trends.

Advantage if you have:

• Experience using ElasticSearch, AWS, Docker and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.

• Experience using Jenkins or GitHub Actions for CI/CD.

• Experience building microservices and working with messaging queues.

• Experience of Prometheus / Grafana for monitoring/alarming of services.

• A degree or masters in Computer Science/Engineering or a related field.

What’s it like to work here

You will have the opportunity to work with one of Ireland's fastest growing Internet companies. You will get the chance to create a significant contribution to our strategic direction. Projects are exciting and employees are given wide scope for creativity and innovation

Benefits - what you can expect

• Our goal is to maintain a culture where people look forward to work – wheth