Introduction:

Are you searching for an opportunity to play a key role in driving the dramatic growth of a highly successful software company?

At Poppulo, we’re working on what’s next in communications and workplace technology. As a pioneer in this industry, we understand that meaningfully reaching every employee is hard. And so is managing office space in a hybrid world. And so is improving the customer and guest experience. We exist to make each of these things easier. We exist to bring harmony to our customers.

And we do that at enterprise scale. Our omnichannel employee communications, customer communications, and workplace experience platform is trusted by over 6,000 organisations today, reaching more than 35M employees and delivering content to 500,000+ digital signs.

We know there’s no such thing as a “perfect" candidate - we’re all a work in progress and are growing new skills and capabilities all the time. We encourage you to apply for a position with Poppulo even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We believe in fostering an environment where there is a diversity of perspectives, in hopes that we can all thrive.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Test Architect to lead the design and evolution of our quality engineering and test automation strategy across our SaaS Employee Experience platform. You will act as a technical leader in test architecture, driving automation-first practices, improving system quality at scale, and enabling teams to deliver reliable, high-performing software.

This role operates across multiple engineering teams, defining and standardising testing strategies, frameworks, and tooling. You will work closely with engineers, architects, and DevOps to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD integration, and scalable test solutions.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium), strong programming skills (Java, TypeScript, or similar), and hands-on experience with distributed systems, cloud environments (AWS), and modern engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities  

• Define and drive the overall test architecture and automation strategy across multiple teams and services.
• Design, build, and evolve scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, and modern testing libraries.
• Establish best practices for automated testing across all layers (unit, integration, API, UI, performance, and end-to-end).
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed testing into the development lifecycle, ensuring high test coverage and fast feedback cycles.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and reliable deployments.
• Partner with Architects and Engineering Leads to ensure test strategies align with system architecture, including microservices and monolithic applications.
• Define and implement strategies for testing distributed systems, including event-driven and asynchronous architectures.
• Leverage AWS services and cloud-native patterns to support scalable and efficient test execution.
• Drive improvements in test reliability, execution time, and maintainability.
• Establish observability and reporting standards for test results, quality metrics and release readiness.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and QE professionals on automation best practices.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and approaches to improve quality engineering capabilities.
• Ensure testing approaches align with security, compliance, and data protection requirements (e.g., GDPR, PII handling).
• Identify quality risks, gaps, and areas of technical debt, and drive remediation strategies.
• Promote a culture of quality ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence across teams.

Education & Experience 

• 10+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, or test automation, with significant experience in an architectural or leadership role.
• Strong programming skills in Java, TypeScript, Python or similar languages used for building automation frameworks.
• Deep experience with modern test automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Robot Framework or similar.
• Strong understanding of performance testing with tools such as locust, k6, Jmeter.
• Proven experience designing and implementing scalable automation frameworks across multiple teams or products.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing into build and deployment workflows.
• Hands-on experience testing distributed systems, including microservices and monolithic architectures.
• Experience working with AWS and cloud-native environments.
• Strong knowledge of API testing, UI testing, performance testing, and test data management strategies.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with event-driven systems and messaging platforms (Kafka, SNS/SQS, etc.) is a plus.
• Strong understanding of observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing) as they relate to testing and quality.
• Experience with security and compliance considerations in testing (GDPR, PII, etc.).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across teams.
• Passion for automation, quality engineering, and continuous improvement.

Who We Are

We are a values-driven organisation that encourages our employees to bring their authentic selves to work every day and empowers everyone to make a tangible impact on our products, clients, and culture. We offer a dynamic environment with driven, fun, and flexible individuals who thrive on challenge and responsibility. This is an opportunity to contribute to our culture and join a company that’s on the move.

We live the Poppulo values each day, as they are key to everything we do.

• Bring Your Best Self
  We show up authentically, are self-aware and always strive to be better.
• See it. Own it. Solve it.
  We proactively innovate and solve for our customers and each other. We set an example with high standards for our work. We foster a culture of learning, acknowledging our successes and our failures.
• Together We’re Better
  We value and celebrate our diversity. We learn from others, respecting their expertise, and focus on building trust. That's what makes us a team.

Named a Great Place to Work in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, we are a fast-growing global technology company, with offices in Ireland, the US, the UK. and India.

Poppulo is an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. For details on how we collect, use, and protect your personal information, please refer to our Job Applicant Privacy Policy.

Introduction:

Are you searching for an opportunity to play a key role in driving the dramatic growth of a highly successful software company? 

At Poppulo, we’re working on what’s next in communications and workplace technology. As a pioneer in this industry, we understand that meaningfully reaching every employee is hard. And so is managing office space in a hybrid world. And so is improving the customer and guest experience. We exist to make each of these things easier. We exist to bring harmony to our customers. 

And we do that at enterprise scale. Our omnichannel employee communications, customer communications, and workplace experience platform is trusted by over 6,000 organizations today, reaching more than 35M employees and delivering content to 500,000+ digital signs.

We know there’s no such thing as a “perfect" candidate - we’re all a work in progress and are growing new skills and capabilities all the time. We encourage you to apply for a position with Poppulo even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We believe in fostering an environment where there is a diversity of perspectives, in hopes that we can all thrive. 

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the technical excellence and scalability of our SaaS Employee Experience platform. You will serve as a senior hands-on engineer within your team - designing and implementing complex features, improving system performance and reliability, and supporting the growth of other engineers.

This role is a key technical contributor within the engineering team. You will translate architectural guidance into robust, maintainable implementations and contribute to architectural discussions through strong technical execution and domain expertise.

The ideal candidate brings solid SaaS experience, hands-on exposure to AWS managed & serverless technologies, and a strong understanding of distributed systems and modern software engineering best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-quality, scalable systems and services aligned with architectural standards and product requirements.
• Implement microservices and APIs with strong emphasis on maintainability, performance, observability, and reliability.
• Own complex features or components from design through deployment, including testing, monitoring, and operational support.
• Collaborate closely with Principal Engineers, Architects, Product Managers, and DevOps to ensure high-quality and consistent delivery.
• Build and enhance services leveraging AWS serverless, event-driven, and container-based technologies (Lambda, ECS, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, Event-Bridge, RDS, etc.).
• Ensure solutions adhere to authentication, authorization, and security best practices (OAuth2, OIDC, RBAC, etc.).
• Participate in code reviews and uphold best practices in coding, design, testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Support observability initiatives by contributing to metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting improvements.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, reliability risks, and areas for continuous improvement.
• Contribute to compliance and data protection requirements including GDPR and PII handling best practices.
• Participate actively in agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement of engineering processes.
• Demonstrate alignment with company values and promote an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture.

Experience Required:

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience building distributed or SaaS-based systems using Node.js (TypeScript) or Java (Spring Boot)
• Strong hands-on experience designing and developing microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures on AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, including multi-tenancy, RBAC, OAuth2/OIDC, and SaaS security best practices
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability/monitoring
• Proven ability to design and build scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant backend systems
• Working knowledge of React or Angular

Nice to Have

• Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized environments
• Knowledge of Terraform or AWS CDK (Infrastructure as Code)
• Exposure to GDPR, PII handling, and security/compliance best practices

Why Us? 

• An excellent workplace culture 
• Competitive salary 
• Company performance-related bonus
• Medical insurance 
• Flexible working hours 
• Educational assistance 
• In-house soft skills training 

Who We Are

We are a values-driven organization that encourages our employees to bring their authentic selves to work every day and empowers everyone to make a tangible impact on our products, clients, and culture. We offer a dynamic environment with driven, fun, and flexible individuals who thrive on challenge and responsibility. This is an opportunity to contribute to our culture and join a company that’s on the move.

We live the Poppulo values each day, as they are key to everything we do.

• Bring Your Best Self

We show up authentically, are self-aware and always strive to be better.

• See it. Own it. Solve it.

We proactively innovate and solve for our customers and each other. We set an example with high standards for our work. We foster a culture of learning, acknowledging our successes and our failures.

• Together We’re Better

We value and celebrate our diversity. We learn from others, respecting their expertise, and focus on building trust. That's what makes us a team.

Named a Great Place to Work in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, we are a fast-growing global technology company, with offices in Ireland, the US, and the UK.

Poppulo is an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. For details on how we collect, use, and protect your personal information, please refer to our Job Applicant Privacy Policy.

About Your Role

Tigera is seeking a Senior UI Engineer to join our existing team in Cork, building the frontend of our new SaaS product, Calico Cloud.

You Will

You will work closely with other software engineers, DevOps engineers, and product managers to deliver products and features on time and to quality while managing and communicating risks. To do this, you will design and build the user interface related to the Calico products.

Deliverables related to these activities will include code and UI artifacts, along with their associated automated tests, which constitute the Calico Cloud user interface. Depending on the feature being built, deliverables may also include wireframes and/or mockups to enable efficient design sessions with our Product Management team.

You Have

• 5+ years of product-oriented UI development experience (SaaS is a plus)
• Deep expertise in modern web application development, including:
• React and frameworks such as Next.js
• TypeScript / modern JavaScript (ES6+)
• Semantic HTML and modern CSS (including component-driven styling approaches)
• Strong experience building and maintaining scalable single-page applications (SPAs) and/or hybrid SSR applications
• Experience working with design systems and component libraries
• Experience with modern testing practices and tools such as:
• Cypress
• Playwright
• Jest / React Testing Library
• Experience mentoring developers, reviewing code, and improving engineering standards
• Experience collaborating with product managers and designers to scope, estimate, and deliver work
• Familiarity with design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma)

Nice-to- Have

• Experience with technical leadership
• Experience working in an open source company with a focus on cloud, networking and/or network security
• Experience working with AI coding assistants such as:
• GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code