Staff Engineer

About Us

Role Overview

Keelvar has an exciting opportunity to join our Engineering Team as a Staff Engineer. This role is remotely based in Ireland. We are unable to consider applications seeking to work from any other locations at this point in time. 

Reporting to our Chief Architect, you will be part of a cross functional team responsible for building and supporting new and existing products and features, and will be setting the technical direction of our products. The successful candidate will join a group of engineers from different backgrounds including Software Dev, Data Science, UI and Product design. 

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions for our products, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with business goals.
• Champion best practices in software engineering (scalability, security, reliability), ensuring code quality, performance, and maintainability across the organization.
• Drive innovation through experimentation and rapid prototyping, bringing forwardnew ideasto improve both product and process.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of features and services, from development to production, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving service resilience.
• Guide and mentor engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Influence the technical roadmap, working closely with leadership to define and prioritize long-term strategic initiatives.
• Serve as a go-to technical expert across multiple domains, helping solve the toughest technical challenges the team faces.
• Continuously evaluate and improve engineering processes and practices, ensuring they evolve to meet the growing and changing demands of the product and the business.
• Understand and deliver on our customer’s needs and goals.

Your profile

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience building and delivering large-scale, high-performance distributed systems. Experience in building SaaS solutions is a strong bonus.
• Proven track record of driving technical direction and delivering high-quality software at scale in a collaborative, agile environment.
• Advanced experience with CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and modern development practices. Strong advocate for continuous improvement in engineering processes.
• Expert Python knowledge with a passion for clean, testable, and maintainable code. Familiarity with other programming languages is a plus.
• Expertise in designing distributed, fault-tolerant services using both RESTful and message-driven APIs.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS is preferred), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and event-driven systems.
• Strong understanding of system performance, scalability, and reliability, with experience in performance tuning and optimizing complex distributed applications.
• You’re not just an executor –you’re a visionary who enjoys thinking deeply about long-term technical strategy, and you have a track record of successfully leading and executing complex projects.
• An outstanding mentor and leader who thrives on elevating the performance of the entire team. You enjoy coaching engineers, encouraging a growth mindset, and leading by example.
• You have a  strong sense of ownership, initiative, and responsibility. You take pride in seeing projects through from ideation to production.

Why Us

Here at Keelvar, we are proud to be a remote-first organisation and we offer some great perks including: 

• Competitive salary with a Series B backed, fast growing organisation.
• Pension 7.5%
• Health Insurance 
• 25 days PTO increasing to 26 after 3 years and increasing to 27 after 5 years.Plus a day off for your birthday.
• Flexible working hours with a positive approach to work - life balance.
• An inclusive, collaborative, innovative culture.
• Generous leave offerings including 2 CSR days.
• Technology that enables you to perform to your best

If you really like the sound of the role but don't match every listed criteria exactly, we still want to hear from you. You could be the exact fit for this or any of our other roles. 
We are a diverse group and we intend to continue to attract and retain diverse talent in our organisation. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse Keelvar. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.