Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Workrise; Belfast; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000

Job description

Workrise is the source-to-pay solution built for energy. By combining purpose-built software with expert teams, we empower the world’s leading energy companies and their suppliers to work better, together.

Learn more about how Workrise is equipping everyone in the energy ecosystem to operate with greater speed and efficiency at workrise.com.

At Workrise, our Engineering teams build the technology powering our next-generation marketplace. We operate in agile, cross-functional teams, working collaboratively to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-impact solutions.

We invest in our people, encouraging career growth and empowering you to shape your own path.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help evolve our platform within a service-oriented architecture. You’ll work alongside engineers, product managers, and designers to build and deliver high-value features that drive our business forward.

What you'll be doing

We’ll support you as you get up to speed with our teams, product domains, tech stack, and processes—helping you understand how we collaborate and deliver together.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Design, build, and refine the services and domains that power our platform, shaping the core capabilities that enable our product.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to take ideas from concept to delivery—balancing the need for speed with the responsibility to build robust, scalable solutions.
• Contribute to our engineering culture by continuously improving how we work—helping streamline processes, enhance collaboration, and ensure we leave things better than we found them.
• Mentor and support other engineers, sharing your expertise and experience to foster growth within the team.

This role is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact—not just on the codebase, but on how we build, collaborate, and grow as a team.

Our main tech stack includes: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes & Docker, Kotlin, Temporal, SpringBoot, React.js, Typescript, Material-UI, Next.js Node.js, MongoD, PostgreS and Kafka. If you have production scale experience in a different stack (Go, Java, Python, Scala, C#, etc.) and are interested in moving to a new stack, we should chat!

Who you are

You're a hands-on developer who gets stuck in, you enjoy solving complex problems & building impactful solutions - importantly, you care about making a difference.

• Take the initiative to own outcomes from start to finish - knowing what needs to be done within your domain and how we work together to deliver the best solution.
• You’ve a passion for developing your craft - you get what it takes to build quality, robust, and scalable solutions.
• You’ll see the learning when things don’t quite go to plan - not just for you, but how we continuously improve as a team.

So, what is important to us

Above all, you’ll get stuff done, more importantly, you’ll collaborate to do the right things, in the right way to achieve the right outcomes.

• Proficient with a JVM Language (open to Kotlin or Java, Scala, Groovy etc.)
• 5+ years of relevant development experience building production grade solutions.
• Delivery focused with solid exposure to SOA and/or Microservices environment.
• Practical exposure of CI/CD pipelines for your production services.
• Familiarity with cloud service platforms (GCP, or AWS, Azure etc.)
• Experience partnering and collaborating with remote teams (across different time zones).
• Proven track record in learning new technologies and applying that learning quickly.

Some of the things that would be nice to have, a plus but not required:

• Familiar with containerisation and Kubernetes.
• Experience with pub/sub messaging technology like Kafka.

Note - all candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK and a satisfactory basic access NI background check.

Workrise are an equal opportunities employer and all appointments will be made on merit.

More than a job:

Between now and 2050, global energy demand is forecasted to rise nearly 50%, which is a staggering number. With every step forward - AI, electrification, you name it - that bar may still get higher. Workrise is uniquely positioned to empower the biggest industry in the world to work smarter - and move faster - in the race to rise to this challenge. The world depends on it.

We recognize that making an impact matters to you and we believe in providing an environment that fosters your growth. We use data to drive our decisions and improve the experience of the workers and clients we serve. With mutual respect for each other, we continually collaborate to find the best solution.

We support you with:

• Talented peers who can help bring out your best.
• The opportunity to significantly impact the lives of skilled laborers.
• Competitive base salary & market-leading equity package (pre-IPO).
• Annual performance-related bonus opportunity.
• 25 days of annual leave plus 11+ statutory days.
• Group Critical Illness & Life Cover.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Flexible approach to working.
• Excellent new hire WFH office contribution.
• Generous Family Friendly policies.
• Wellness allowance.

Workrise is committed to providing an environment where all people feel belonging, mutual respect, and the freedom to be their authentic selves. We welcome applicants of all gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, educational background, religion, ethnicity, disability, age, veteran status, and citizenship. We’d love to learn what you can add to our team.

Who we are:

What began as a workforce management platform for Oil & Gas has since grown to serve the biggest companies in energy across both workforce and vendor management, absorbing much of the supply chain complexity these energy companies face and making it easier, faster, and safer to get work done. To date, Workrise has raised over $750M in funding from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Brookfield, Baillie Gifford, along with others, and will continue to use these investments for strategic growth.

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