Software Engineer

Flipdish

full-time

Posted on: 9/3/2025

Origin: • 🇮🇪 Ireland

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Mid-LevelSenior

AWSCloudDynamoDB

About the role

Join Flipdish’s Platform Enablement Team to build a modern serverless, event-driven platform for thousands of restaurants
Develop and maintain opinionated patterns and libraries using SST + CDK to support high-quality application development on AWS
Define and codify best practices for AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB and Cloudflare Rules and Workers
Partner with teams to adopt architectural patterns (multi-account guardrails, observability, testing)
Create reusable IaC components (CDK constructs and aspects) and extend GitHub Actions pipeline tooling
Build guardrails into the developer experience to ensure quality, cost-effectiveness, and safety by default
Work product-centrically with engineers using automation, templates and Gen-AI rules; measure impact and prioritise platform investments
Build, evolve and own shared platform services and extract shared capabilities from monolithic systems
Participate in Product-Engineering-wide hack and build days and collaborate within a small high-ownership team

Solid software engineering skills and experience building cloud-native, production-grade systems
Experience using AWS serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, S3, SQS) and hands-on experience using CDK or SST
Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Dynatrace, Honeycomb, AWS CloudWatch) and incident response practices
A pragmatic approach to infrastructure: know when to abstract, when to standardise, and when to get out of the way
Understanding of CI/CD and experience with GitHub Actions or similar pipeline frameworks
Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with product and engineering teams
Bonus: experience running workshops and learning initiatives
Bonus: experience with Cloudflare (Workers, Rules, Durable Objects), Cursor AI or similar AI copilots, and platform product thinking