Senior Software Engineer - Contract

Senior Software Engineer - Daily rate Contract (6-12 months initially with strong view to extend) - Hybrid (1-2 days per week in Dublin office) **About the Role** You'll build and operate the data pipelines powering the Intelligence Platform, transforming data into reliable, anonymized insights for web experiences, internal tools, and AI-powered products. **Responsibilities** * Build and maintain scalable data pipelines using JVM technologies and modern data lake tools. * Prototype data products quickly, gather stakeholder feedback, and iterate. * Ensure data quality, freshness, privacy, and reliability through automated tests, monitoring, and alerts. * Define data models and contracts for downstream teams and applications. * Publish trusted data to internal tools and customer-facing products. * Monitor pipeline performance, support on-call operations, and contribute to technical design and code reviews. * Incorporate AI tools into your daily engineering workflow. **Requirements** * 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with data-intensive or distributed systems. * Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, or another object-oriented language. * Strong SQL, data modeling, testing, and data quality skills. * Experience turning complex, large-scale datasets into reliable data products. * Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS. * Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. **Nice to have:** Experience with Apache Spark, Iceberg, Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, or Pulsar. No visa sponsorship is provided.