330 Software Lead jobs in Ireland

At Flipdish, we're turning the tables in favour of independent restaurant and takeaway owners by providing them with the tools they need to make their lives easier. We provide our customers with a suite of powerful, but straightforward tech along with (real human) support, so they can thrive on their own terms.

Everything we do is designed to make running a restaurant satisfyingly simple, in a world that's anything but.

About this role

As part of our continued growth, we're looking for a Tech Lead to join our Client Experience team - creating stand out experiences that allow our clients to self serve across our platforms.

The client experience team has a particular focus on the self service and maintenance of our products, through their online portal. Our main goal is to provide our clients with a standout management platform for all their Flipdish services. We are also responsible for creating an efficient and exciting onboarding flow, allowing the clients to start earning money fast

This role is ideal for someone with previous experience as a tech lead, or as a senior developer responsible for creating new and standout products. You should have previous experience working in the cloud, preferably using serverless architecture. You should have a passion for technology and be willing to take on new challenges and input to the company's growth. This is a front-end leaning role with the focus being on React and Typescript, although the expectation is that you are able and willing to work across the entire vertical for the team.

In this job, you'll…

• Work with a PM and EM to help manage and run the team
• Deeply understand our customers and their problems, ensuring that the team is always focused on the right thing
• Lead architectural decisions and help evolve our Golden Path - shaping how we build, deploy, observe, and scale services across Flipdish in AWS
• Be hands on developing our client platforms
• Act as a multiplier by mentoring engineers, driving best practices, and fostering knowledge-sharing across teams
• Advocate for, and implement automation wherever possible
• Help the team adopt AI tools and capabilities – identifying valuable use cases and making it easier for others to explore, prototype, and safely integrate AI into their workflows

We're looking for…

• 2+ years experience as a technical leader
  , with real-world experience setting direction and influencing teams
• 8+ years of development experience
  , working with React, Typescript and C#, using Domain Driven Design and Event Driven Architectures
• Proven ability to work across the full stack
  , owning your own vertical slice of the product
• Solid experience in AWS
  , particularly with core serverless technologies (e.g. Lambda, DynamoDB), and a track record of building reliable, scalable systems. Azure experience is a bonus
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  – the ability to build trust across teams and explain technical concepts clearly
• Experience mentoring engineers
  and helping grow a strong engineering culture
• A proactive problem-solver
  who thrives in ambiguity and can distil complexity into pragmatic, scalable solutions

What you get

We're a growing startup and we understand that amazing incentives will attract amazing talent. As well as the perks, we provide unparalleled opportunities for career growth. If you're smart, ambitious, and hard-working, we'll do whatever it takes to make you a Flipdisher

Some of our incentives include:

Hub Model:
We encourage a healthy blend of hub and home working.

25 Days Holiday:
Enjoy 25 days of holidays per year plus plenty of company get-togethers

Healthcare Coverage:
Comprehensive healthcare coverage for UK, Ireland, and US-based employees.

Team Meet-Ups:
Regular social events and team meet-ups.

About Flipdish

We're Flipdish, an Irish unicorn (valued at over $1bn), serving independent restaurants in a world transformed by tech. No matter how fast Flipdish has grown, we've evolved around our customers and their needs. We're not just an end-to-end ecosystem of technology, but a team committed to supporting people in the food industry.

We go to great lengths to understand our customers (check out our C-suite on work experience). We're food industry natives. We've worked in busy kitchens and run busy restaurant franchises. We don't just help our customers deal with real life problems, we give them a way of competing with the big chains, growing on their own terms, and falling back in love with what they do.

About Your New Employer

• An Irish digital commerce solutions company is looking to hire a Tech Lead for their existing Engineering function to work with a large codebase.

About Your New Job

• Design, document, implement and test large features.
• Take part in technical and business discussions both internally and externally.
• Assist the team in delivering a high quality product.
• Mentor, motivate and train developers.
• Bring your way of thinking to the organisation.

What Skills You Need

• 5+ years' experience in Software Engineering.
• 2+ years managing a Software Engineering Team.
• Strong Java 8 experience.
• Experience with REST and SOAP APIs.
• Ability to work with a large codebase.
• Experience in release management.

What's on Offer

• Salary of €95k - €105k based on relevant experience.
• Hybrid working model with 1-2 days a week on-site.
• Benefits including Healthcare, Pension, Bonus and more.
• A chance to help shape the future of the company.

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Job Title:
UAT Lead – SAP & Retail Domain

Location:
Ireland

Contract Duration:
12 months

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced
UAT Lead
to join our team. The ideal candidate has a strong background in
manual and automation testing
, with hands-on
SAP
experience and a
Retail / Online Store
domain background.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and oversee the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase of projects.
• Ensure the final product meets business requirements.
• Host status meetings and ad hoc working sessions.
• Work independently under pressure and in a dynamic environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and deliver projects.

Mandatory Skills:

• UAT Lead capabilities.
• SAP experience.
• Stakeholder management.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Good to Have:

• Negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of Retail / Online Store domain.

Experience:

5+ years.

The Company

CoolPlanet is a global leader in industrial-scale decarbonisation. Our SaaS platform, CPOS, helps organisations reduce their energy spend and therefore reach Net Zero faster by optimising operations across industrial, manufacturing and commercial environments.

We engage in developing and designing innovative energy-efficient solutions through examining and modelling our customers' existing processes and equipment in order to identify and implement energy conservation measures. We dramatically reduce carbon emissions and bring the world closer to solving climate change.

Our people are the driving force behind our success. We have a high-performance, fast-paced, growth culture that attracts and fosters highly talented and driven individuals.

The Software

Cool Planet Operating System (CPOS) is a cutting-edge industrial energy optimisation platform leading the industry in the reduction of energy spend and emissions.

CPOS empowers smarter business operations by connecting equipment, software, and services to protect, control, and optimise assets and processes within manufacturing, industrial and commercial building environments. Across multiple energy-intensive verticals, the business provides customers with end-to-end product and service solutions that help ensure the optimisation of their resource consumption.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a hands-on Tech Lead to strengthen our development team. You'll bring deep expertise in building RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot, and integrating them seamlessly into a React single-page application.

In this role, you'll support our engineers with technical leadership and mentoring and act as a key bridge between our back-end and front-end teams, contributing to the end-to-end delivery of features. Experience with React and an interest in AI/ML and Generative AI will set you apart.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, performant, and testable REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Integrate APIs into a React single-page application, ensuring smooth user experiences.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, UX designers, and front-end/back-end engineers to deliver complete, high-impact features.
• Contribute to and refine engineering best practices, coding standards, and development processes, as well as mentoring and upskilling engineers.
• Contribute in shaping technical direction, ensuring robustness, scalability, and innovation. Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.
• Help integrate AI/ML and GenAI features into the platform.

Skills & Experience Required

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, 2+ years in a lead/mentorship role.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and REST API design and implementation.
• Hands-on experience building single-page applications (SPAs) using React or a similar framework.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, SQL, and entity relationship design.
• Experience with version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work collaboratively in an agile environment.

About You

• You're passionate about using technology to tackle climate change.
• You enjoy leading by example, mentoring others, and raising technical standards.
• You thrive in fast-paced, agile environments and bring curiosity, adaptability, and problem-solving to everything you do.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Company pension
• Employee Share Option Scheme
• Company social events
• Career growth with dedicated upskilling time.
• Bike to work scheme
• Lunch provided on site
• Gym on site
• Refer A Friend Incentive: Earn €2,000 per referral
• Devices: Company phone and laptop
• Be part of a mission-driven company tackling climate change with technology.

Location
: Our office is based in Powerscourt House, Co. Wicklow. We offer a hybrid working model of 3 days on-site with the opportunity to work flexibly.

At CoolPlanet, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace culture where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We believe in equal opportunities for all, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other characteristic. We are committed to creating an environment that celebrates diversity and encourages collaboration, innovation, and personal growth. Together, we strive to build a CoolPlanet where every individual can thrive.

Job Description
We're looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services.Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc. As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.

• Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment.
• Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel.
• BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
• 8 years of software engineering or related experience.

Responsibilities
At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.Values are OCI's foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.If you are interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud, then this is your team Oracle is aggressively investing in the Oracle Cloud to provide the broadest, most comprehensive cloud in the industry. Only Oracle offers a complete suite of integrated services that include applications as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service – eliminating the data and business process fragmentation that come with cloud silos. A critical part of these silos is the Infrastructure Services include Compute, Storage, and Messaging service.

Department Description:

Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure team is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best in class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever expanding set of foundational cloud-based services.

Position Overview:
We're looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. At Oracle you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact.

Job Responsibilities:
As a Senior Principal Member of Technical Staff you will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.
Candidate
Profile:

• 15+ years experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of C, C++ or Java, and experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, etc.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies.
• Strong understanding of Linux or desire to learn
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus.

Top 3 skill sets / technologies in the ideal candidate:

• Software Engineering experience with distributed systems within large scale environments
• 15+ years experience working on challenging issues with a self-starter / self-motivated attitude (Will vary based on level)
• Virtualization experience would be a huge plusCareer Level - IC5

Responsibilities
As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Qualifications
Career Level - IC5

About Us
As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow's technology to tackle today's challenges. We've partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.

We know that true innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer competitive benefits based on parity and consistency and support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We're committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing accommodation- or by calling in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Software Architect – Data Products, Contract, Hybrid

The Company

Our end-user customer is one of the world's leading firms in their field, providing professional services across global industry and with revenues of around €1 billion.

The Team

The Data Product team is a dedicated, globally distributed internal support group that focuses on managing data sources and ensuring their integrity. You will lead a team of three data software engineers, managing tasks, output, and peer reviewing code.

The Opportunity

This Software Architecture role involves establishing an efficient, modern data management system utilising AWS. The system is being built on scalable patterns for data ingestion, processing, development, testing, deployment, and operations. The role requires adherence to a managed and collaborative process for evolving these patterns, with a strong focus on automation. Additionally, the candidate must lead and mentor other team members in all technical aspects.

Minimum Qualifications

• AWS Solution Architect or Developer certification, with working knowledge of the well-architected framework

• 5+ years' experience in a similar role as a Software Architect in the Data domain

Culture and Team

Their culture emphasises strong communication and collaboration, where team members enjoy working together and sharing ideas to create efficient solutions. The team values clear knowledge management practices and embraces collaboration with business users, engineers, and designers.

AI Adoption

• Enhance productivity and quality by effectively utilising CoPilot.
• Collaborate closely with CoPilot to shape innovative solutions.
• Embrace and integrate CoPilot seamlessly into daily tasks.

Ownership and Continual Improvement

• Architecture through Operations
• Adopt and contribute to standard practices, minimising variations
• Automates well-established processes and building blocks with cost optimisation
• Strive for elegance and simplicity by reducing complexity
• Drives change through team engagement & collaboration in an orderly manner

Responsibilities

The Software Architect role involves defining and driving the technical vision for the data product team, making high-impact decisions, and championing best practices in architecture. The role also includes leading and mentoring a team of software developers, managing team priorities, and delivering data solutions.

Strategic Vision and Technical Leadership

• Defines and drives the long-term technical vision, strategy and roadmap for the product portfolio of the data team, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Makes high-impact architecture decisions on the technology stack, frameworks, design patterns and development methodologies.
• Champions best practices in code quality, scalability, security, performance and maintainability.

Software Design

• High-level understanding and practical application of Object-Oriented (OO) design principles. You should be able to articulate and implement designs that are modular, reusable and maintainable.
• A deep understanding of the SOLID principles as a standard for writing clean, scalable and testable code. You will be expected to review code with these principles in mind.
• Experience with data-specific architectural patterns and principles for building scalable and reliable data pipelines (e.g. Medallion Architecture)

Data Architecting

• Familiarity with architectures such as data lakes, lake houses, and data warehousing.
• Experience with processes for data pipeline execution and managing changes. Ability to maintain metadata specifications.
• Experience specifying data models at a conceptual and schema level.

Development Methodologies

• Experience working in an Agile environment. You should be comfortable with iterative development, sprint planning, retrospectives, and associated tools (JIRA, Confluence, UML modeling tools).
• Advocate for and practitioner for Test-Driven Development (TDD) or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Proficiency with CI/CD principles and pipelines. You understand the value of automated testing, building and deploying and have experience implementing these processes.

Programming Languages

• Core Language:
  Expert proficiency in Python, Deep knowledge of the standard library, best practices and writing "Pythonic" code
• Data Ecosystem:
  Strong experience with the Python data stack libraries (Pandas, PySpark) for data manipulation and Jupyter notebooks
• Database and Querying:
  Ability to write complex, optimized queries and understand data performance

AWS Experience

• Excellent knowledge of the AWS Data tooling eco-system
• AWS Glue, Managed Airflow (MWAA), Athena, Redshift, RDS, S3
• Proficient with AWS development and deployment tools such as AWS CodeCommit, CloudFormation, and CodePipeline, and CodeBuild

This is a long-term day rate contract opportunity. You must be eligible to live and work in Ireland and be willing to be on-site in Dublin city centre two days each week.

Barden is proud to partner with a global SaaS company in their search for a GenAI Software Architect. This fully remote role, open to talent across Europe, offers a rare opportunity to shape the future of our client's solutions through cutting-edge Generative AI.

Reporting to the Head of AI, you'll own the design and delivery of intelligent agentic systems that will help redefine the company's SaaS platform. You'll work cross-functionally across engineering, architecture, and product teams to turn ambitious GenAI concepts into real-world impact.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Lead the design and implementation of GenAI-powered features with a strong focus on agentic systems.
• Architect and own the full lifecycle of LLM solutions, from POC through to scalable, production-grade software.
• Build and orchestrate advanced pipelines using tools like LangChain, AutoGen, and vector databases.
• Collaborate with senior leaders across architecture, engineering, and product to drive strategic GenAI initiatives.
• Ensure performance, security, and maintainability across AI components integrated into a complex SaaS environment.
• Guide best practices in LLMOps and scalable AI system deployment.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Strong software architecture background, ideally transitioned into GenAI in the last 3-4 years.
• End-to-end experience with production-grade GenAI projects, from research to deployment.
• Skilled in LLM Ops frameworks (LangChain, AutoGen) and classic NLP techniques.
• Experience deploying LLM systems in production SaaS environments.

OTHER DETAILS

• Remote role, with occasional travel to our client's HQ office in Ireland.
• Talent-led on salary plus company benefits such as bonus, healthcare, pension, flexible working hours, etc.

Are you a seasoned Software Architect with hands-on experience delivering production-grade GenAI projects?
Apply now or reach out to for more details.

Rate:
€ per day

Client:
Market-leading Irish-owned business

Location:
Hybrid, Dublin based (one day on-site a week)

Start Date:
ASAP

Contract Length:
12 months (very likely to extend)

A
market-leading Irish-owned business
is seeking a highly skilled and motivated
Software Architect
to join its growing architecture and engineering team. This is a hybrid contract role, offering the opportunity to shape technical direction and influence high-performing product development teams.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead software architecture for one of Ireland's most visited customer platforms, supporting large-scale digital transformation and complex system evolution.

The Role

As
Software Architect
, you will be responsible for guiding the overall technical direction, design standards, and development strategy across a key domain within the organisation.

You will play a leadership role in mentoring engineering teams, driving architectural excellence, and ensuring high-quality software delivery aligned to business goals.

This role requires strong hands-on technical expertise, leadership capability, and a clear vision for designing modern, scalable, service-oriented platforms.

What You'll Get

• Hybrid working with flexible contract arrangements (1 day on-site a week)
• Key role in a long-term digital transformation programme
• High-impact work on a major Irish digital platform
• Collaboration with forward-thinking engineering and product teams
• A culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical ownership

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive architecture strategy across software domains, including integration, APIs, event-driven systems, and service-oriented architecture
• Take ownership of architectural direction for your assigned domain, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals
• Lead technical teams across multi-phase projects, ensuring high standards in design, development, and governance
• Mentor developers and promote clean, testable, and scalable code practices
• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish CI/CD best practices and improve delivery pipelines
• Review code, create proof of concepts (POCs), and introduce innovative approaches to problem-solving
• Influence technology strategy, development standards, and governance processes
• Contribute to API governance, architecture forums, and enterprise-wide standards
• Partner closely with product managers to align architecture with business priorities and roadmap delivery

Ideal Candidate Profile

Essential Skills & Experience:

• 6+ years' experience across multiple technology domains in high-performing environments
• Expertise in Java, Spring Framework, RESTful services, and service-oriented architecture
• Strong knowledge of API design, SOA, and event-driven design patterns
• Solid understanding of web-based and enterprise application architectures
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, Gradle
• Strong leadership, mentorship, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Fluent English speaker with excellent communication skills
• Eligible to live and work in Ireland
• Able to pass a standard 5-year background/security check
• Holds a valid, unrestricted worldwide passport

Desirable Skills:

• AWS certification and/or cloud solutioning experience
• Knowledge of architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, IASA, or ArchiMate
• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban)
• Exposure to microservices and high-volume e-commerce or digital platforms
• Familiarity with emerging technologies including AI and cloud-native architectures

Additional Requirements

• Non-Irish citizens must provide a valid police clearance from their home country
• Candidates who have lived outside Ireland for more than 6 months in the past 5 years will also require police clearance certificates for those countries

How to Apply

If you are an experienced Software Architect with strong technical leadership skills and a passion for delivering modern, scalable solutions, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and availability to be considered for this opportunity.

MCS Group is thrilled to be partnering alongside an exceptional client in Dublin as they a seek a talented Software Architect to join them on a contract basis for a minimum of 12 months.

As the Software Architect you will lead the architecture of a modern, automated data platform on AWS. You'll set technical direction, champion engineering best practice, and guide a small team to build reliable, scalable data pipelines and services.

(Hybrid 2 days office - Dublin)

Responsibilities:

• Architecture leadership: Define roadmaps, set standards, choose tools, review designs.
• Hands-on engineering: Still coding in Python/PySpark, designing pipelines, embedding CI/CD.
• Mentorship: Guide and review other engineers' work.
• Security ownership: Especially around AWS IAM roles and least privilege access.
• Governance: Data models, metadata, documentation, and standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with global colleagues; communicate designs clearly.

Requirements:

• AWS data stack, hands on experience: Glue, Airflow/MWAA, Athena, Redshift, RDS, S3.
• Strong coding skills in Python & PySpark/Pandas & SQL. Ideally software engineering background prior to architecture work
• CI/CD automation: AWS CodePipeline, CloudFormation (infrastructure as code).
• Architect-level experience: At least 5 years in a senior/lead role.
• Security-first mindset: Solid understanding of IAM roles/policies and AWS security best practice.
• Happy to be work on-site as required in Dublin (2 days per week)
• Full right to work in Ireland

Strong daily rate DOE and strong chances of extension after 12 months. Not to be missed for those in this field

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity, please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Calum Omand Specialist Recruitment Consultant at MCS Group on

Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit MCS Group to view a wide selection of our current and exclusive roles