About MessageGears LLC

MessageGears is the first and only customer marketing platform that connects directly to our customer’s enterprise data warehouse. By combining the power and security of on-premises software with the efficiency and scalability of cloud delivery, we enable marketers to capitalize on every message opportunity. We’re disrupting an industry by providing a solution that gives marketers complete control over their multi-channel programs through advanced technology. Our product is solving marketing challenges for Enterprise customers that undoubtedly reach every candidate applying for this position. 

About the role (Located in Ireland - Remote)

For background, the Software Engineering department at MessageGears is involved in the entire software development lifecycle from requirements definition, design and implementation, as well as promotion and support. The Full Stack Software Engineer role develops the entire Customer facing user experience. As mentioned, the platform connects directly to Customer data sets and enables the user to design full marketing campaigns including audience filtering, segmentation, content recommendations, campaign scheduling across multiple messaging channels. The platform is heavily integrated with cloud services to elastically scale delivery for billions of messages a day.

What you'll do

• Work with your Scrum Team and Product to break down Epics into User Stories and Stories into Developer Tasks 
• Implement the functionality, test automation, and Data persistence tasks
• Perform peer reviews on Scrum Team code changes
• Validate and Test your code changes in the QA environment
• Collaborate with our support team on customer escalations
• Monitor and troubleshoot application performance 
• Identify challenges and opportunities for improvement of team delivery
• Conduct all business in accordance with MessageGears policies and procedures
• All other duties as assigned

Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Agile Software Development
• 2+ years of experience in a SaaS or on-premise product-based software business
• 2+ years of experience developing in an Object Oriented Code Base (Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience in Front-end development using React/Angular
• Experience developing in a TypeScript Framework
• Experience with Testing Tools (JUnit, Cypress, etc.)
• Experience in environments where engineers have visibility into customer use cases.

COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION:

• Ability to communicate clearly in English, both written and verbal.  Can explain complex technical concepts to technical stakeholders.
• Comfort working with distributed teams across large time zone differences
• Ability to plan work and raise blockers without waiting for meetings.
• Proactive about status updates and using asynchronous collaboration 
• Culturally aware and adaptable in cross-border work environments.

DESIRED EXPOSURE TO:

• Java/Spring/Springboot Framework
• Ruby on Rails Framework
• React JS/Angular Frameworks
• Test Driven Development or test centric methodologies
• Front End Testing Tools (Cypress, Playwright, etc.)
• Reactive Forms and State Management
• Athena / Snowflake
• AWS services such as ECS, EKS, EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, Fargate
• Experience with large scale events and data processing
• Marketing Technologies - Email, Mobile, Social, Search, Video, etc.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE DESIRED:

• 2 - 5 years of experience in a product company
• BA/BS degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field