Full-Time

Principal Engineer

Posted on 9/12/2025

Workhuman

Workhuman

1,001-5,000 employees

Global SaaS for employee recognition

No salary listed

Dublin, Ireland

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Agile
UI/UX Design
Requirements
  • You have hands-on experience in agile software development, with a track record of delivering high quality, scalable, performant and secure client-facing applications.
Responsibilities
  • Guide our productivity integrations squads across a wide eco-system from Microsoft to Workday and Slack and more.
  • Shape the future of Productivity Integrations features and communicate its overall technical strategy.
  • Be central to laying the foundations to the path ahead, working with Product Managers to Understand business objectives, identify potential solutions and reduce uncertainty.
  • Collaborate with highly skilled, passionate, collaborative and fun individuals across the Platform, Architecture, and Product Engineering groups.
  • Collaborate with distributed teams across Dublin and remote locations, bringing diverse perspectives together.
  • Collaborate with our award winning UX, Product and Engineering teams to build the framework and deliver responsive experiences.
  • Drive technical excellence of delivery of new capabilities, which meet market needs, and support our rapidly growing business.
  • Support other Senior Software Engineers as required as they both learn from you and challenge you to succeed.
  • Involved in influencing the direction of our integration's product strategy.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL) is required; non-relational databases (Redis, DynamoDB, etc.) is a plus.
  • Strong background in Java or Python.
  • Hands-on experience with some of the following AWS services - ECS Fargate, ECR, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, AWS Batch, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeArtifact.
  • Extensive experience with automated unit and integration testing.
  • Ideally, knowledge and experience with Infrastructure Automation and working with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines.
  • Knowledge of architectures styles and patterns (REST, Microservices, Event-Driven Architectures, Domain-Driven Design, etc.).
  • Keen interest in emerging technology trends and ability to embrace new technologies quickly and help others understand them.
  • Excellent communication across the business to align on key topics and business strategy, to ensure teams are working toward shared goals.
  • Ability to listen attentively, consider others' opinions, and use candor when expressing your own opinions.
  • Fostering a culture of Innovation and curiosity within the team, empowering everyone to contribute.

Workhuman offers a secure SaaS platform for human-centric workplaces, delivering employee recognition, engagement, performance insights, work-life harmony, and inclusion across global teams. Workhuman Cloud enables ongoing recognition, feedback, and connection for millions of users in 180 countries and 30+ languages, while Workhuman IQ provides proactive business insights to spot issues early and align actions with goals. The company differentiates itself through its global scale, broad, people-focused modules, and a strong emphasis on belonging and culture that drive measurable ROI for HR and business leaders. Its goal is to transform workplaces into more engaged and appreciative environments that boost performance and business outcomes through consistent, data-informed human connections.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$15M

Headquarters

Framingham, Massachusetts

Founded

1999

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Employee recognition market grows 19.4% CAGR to $12.4B by 2032.
  • Peer recognition boosts retention 15-20% and productivity 12% in Fortune 500.
  • AI-driven succession planning reduces executive hire failure rates from 40% to 20%.

What critics are saying

  • Microsoft Viva Glint bundles recognition into Microsoft 365, eroding Workhuman's market share.
  • EU AI Act enforcement targets Workhuman's data processing, halting Ascend AI features.
  • High Court litigation with ICG over failed Achievers acquisition deters enterprise contracts.

What makes Workhuman unique

  • Ascend AI analyzes peer recognition and collaboration patterns, not generic HR data.
  • Future Leaders identifies high-potential employees 3-5 years before promotion using behavioral signals.
  • Frontline Recognition Experience connects 80% of global workforce previously excluded from recognition.

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Benefits

Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

1%
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