• Do you have a passion for a career in Tech and a genuine interest in working for an organisation tackling online harms - from violent extremism and gender-based violence to disinformation and child online exploitation. • We have a rare and exciting opportunity for a Software Developer to join Moonshot, supporting the Director of Engineering. We are building our Ireland-based development team from the ground up, and we’re looking for an experienced individual to help with this effort and take our software to the next phase of its evolution. • You are someone who: - Is passionate about producing high-quality user-focussed software systems, and keeping them that way. - Understands how to work with large-scale data collection, processing and analysis. - Loves to work in a high-performance team and operating environment, built on mutual trust, and continuous improvement. - Wants to grow their technical and non-technical skills and responsibilities in a unique organization. - Deeply cares about using your skills to solve the complex problems to which your software applies. • Your responsibilities will include: - Developing high-quality user-focused products at pace in an environment that promotes agile methodologies and continuous collaboration. - Advocating for operational excellence (such as high unit test coverage, good code quality practices, establishing and achieving SLAs, programming for resiliency, performance and scalability, anticipation/handling of failure scenarios, improving cybersecurity practices). - Regular refactoring to keep the codebase well-maintained and with low technical debt and impediments. - Participating in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback. - Ensuring the software is well-instrumented for monitoring, logging, and alerting.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of data-oriented commercial software development. • Excellent working knowledge of Python. • Strong working knowledge of large-scale data collection, processing and analysis. • You are comfortable working with various data management and storage systems. • Experience with third-party integrations and scraping tools. • Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred). • Ability to learn quickly in technical and business problem spaces. • Ability to understand, build, and maintain complex systems. • You’re resilient and open-minded in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives. • Has worked in a culture of high-trust where ideas can be freely shared and discussed and where the team makes outcome-oriented decisions together for the benefit of the mission. • Excellent problem-solving and strong communication skills. • Desirable: Familiarity with and passion for ending online harms including violent extremism, disinformation, gender-based violence, etc. • Desirable: Experience with text and multimedia data processing and analysis algorithms. • Desirable: In-depth, demonstrable experience with serverless ETL processes, e.g. AWS Glue. • Desirable: Well-versed in Scrum and/or Kanban. • Desirable: Comfort with responsibility, decision-making, ownership, and autonomy. • Desirable: You are conscious about security and data protection when contributing to all aspects of software delivery. • Desirable: You keep up to date on progress on the tools and processes you work with and apply new things you have learned. • Desirable: You have worked in a fast-paced, agile environment with dynamic priorities and you know how to balance this without affecting the reliability and robustness of your software.

Benefits

• 30 days' paid leave per annum • Dental and Vision package • Private healthcare package, including coverage for partners and children • Employee Assistance Programme providing access to mental health support • Generous maternity and paternity package

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