CONSUMER EDGE

Consumer Edge is a data and AI-driven company that equips global organizations with real-time, transaction-based insights. Our engineers work across domains—Data, AI, and application development—to build a platform that translates complex data into clear business intelligence.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER BACKEND, CLIENT PLATFORM TEAM

You’ll be joining Consumer Edge’s Client Platform Team — a distributed cross-disciplinary team located across Europe and the US.

Our mission is to build web-based products that empower our clients and transform how they make decisions. You’ll be joining a group of Software Engineers, Product Managers and UX Designers, working closely with stakeholders to use data to answer real-world business questions.

We believe in building a culture of autonomy, where enabling team members to make decisions independently leads to greater motivation, innovation and productivity.

TECHNOLOGIES

We work in a microservices, DevOps environment where teams own their code and infrastructure in production. We favour type-safe and functional programming styles — clean, composable code is something we care deeply about. Some of the technologies we use across Consumer Edge include Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Working on a distributed multi-discipline team in an Agile environment to build a best-in-class customer-facing platform that provides better insights into our data
• Participate in architecture and design discussions.
• Building maintainable and scalable services, performant APIs and infrastructure to serve data to our client-facing web platform
• Optimising system design for maximum performance and scalability
• Building cross-functional relationships within the team to enable meaningful impact

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE TEAM

• 4+ years of experience working as a Backend Engineer in a similar environment
• Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, with an appreciation for type safety and functional programming principles
• Excellent interpersonal skills for cross-team collaboration, with great communication ability to share knowledge and get your message across
• Experience building REST services
• Good understanding of SQL
• Experience working with a cloud service such as AWS or GCP

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience or interest in functional programming languages such as Scala.
• Experience building GraphQL services
• Familiarity with functional libraries and patterns in TypeScript (e.g. fp-ts, Effect)
• Experience of building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience building Data pipelines
• Some exposure to infrastructure as code practices
• Some frontend experience using Vue or React

WHAT TO EXPECT

• A strong tech community with training and support to develop your skills
• Ability to make an immediate impact on our products

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Distributed environment and flexible working arrangements
• Generous leave options
• In-country benefits related to health insurance and pension / 401K

Consumer Edge is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.

An overview of this role

As the first Engineering Manager embedded the Upstream Studios organization at GitLab, you'll lead a focused team of Engineers responsible for two foundational surfaces: the Pajamas Design System, which powers the coherence of the entire GitLab product, and docs.gitlab.com, the documentation platform serving millions of GitLab users and contributors worldwide. 

This is a rare opportunity to define what engineering leadership looks like inside a design organization. You’ll report to the Chief Design Officer and partner closely with Product Design, Technical Writing, Localization, Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering leaders across GitLab. Critically, the design system is a contribution-based, company-wide platform that engineers across the entire organization depend on and actively participate in. Building those partnerships and making it easier for engineers everywhere to contribute to Pajamas will be central to your success. 

You’ll be a hands-on technical leader and people manager in equal measure: guiding architecture decisions, shaping contribution workflows, and helping a small, high-impact team do some of the most leveraged work at GitLab.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor,and grow a high-performing team of engineers, working across the Pajamas Design System and the GitLab documentation site.
• Define and build the engineering practice within Upstream Studios–this is a new function and you’ll have real influence over how it takes shape.
• Guide architecture and technical decisions for the design system (components, tokens, patterns) and the docs site (performance, reliability, infrastructure, localization).
• Help others across the organization understand the strategic value of a well-maintained design system and documentation platform.
• Advocates for engineering quality: technical debt, accessibility standards, customer issues, security, and platform reliability.
• Collaborate with Product Design and Technical Writing to translate design and content needs into scalable technical solutions

What you'll bring

• Experience leading infrastructure, platform, or development teams, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams.
• Deep expertise in design systems–including design tokens, component architecture, accessibility standards, and contribution models.
• Excellent technical background, including professional experience with Git, docs-as-code, Hugo, accessibility and building and maintaining a design system.
• Experience of building and supporting multi-lingual sites and localization workflows at scale.
• Professional experience with JavaScript (Vue.js) and familiarity with Elasticsearch, Ruby/Go, AI tools, and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Strong expertise in running and scaling large, consumer-grade platforms, with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and scalability.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Passion for open source and developer tools, with a commitment to GitLab's values, inclusive culture, and high-performance expectations.

About the team

Upstream Studios is the full-stack experience organization for GitLab. We imagine it, we design it, we document it, we ship it—partnering across product, engineering, and marketing to deliver a continuous deployment of quality.

We integrate research, design, frontend engineering, documentation, and brand into a unified delivery pipeline, shaping how customers experience GitLab from first impression to final deployment. For more information on how we work, see the Upstream Studios section of the GitLab Handbook.

About CitySwift:
CitySwift is the world’s leading performance optimisation platform for public transport, enabling data-driven decision-making for some of the largest transport networks globally. Backed by over €15 million in venture capital funding, we partner with major public transport operators and government authorities, including Go-Ahead Group, Transport for London, and many more. CitySwift is experiencing accelerated growth, with 117% year-over-year revenue growth in 2025.

Our mission is to increase the adoption of sustainable public transport worldwide. Today, our platform optimises more than 3 billion passenger journeys annually, and our target is to reach 10 billion journeys by the end of 2026.

At CitySwift, you’ll have the opportunity to take ownership, make a measurable impact, and grow professionally as part of a collaborative, mission-driven team. Join us in shaping the future of public transport by driving the next phase of CitySwift’s growth.

How we work
CitySwift is headquartered in Ireland, with our second office hub in London. We also have team members based in Australia, Singapore and across parts of the EU.

Hybrid working is the default in Ireland (with some exceptions), with remote and hybrid options across the UK and beyond. All roles have core hours of 10am to 4pm, giving you flexibility around how you structure your day. Collaboration really matters to us, with quarterly and bi-monthly meet-ups depending on your department or area of work, but we’re sensible about it – we won’t ask you to come into the office to tick a box. Our offices are designed for proper collaboration (and are dog friendly!).

We also believe trust and rest matter. Annual leave starts at 25 days, and our work abroad programme gives you the option to work from another country for up to six weeks. We move fast, expect a lot from each other and back people to do their best work.

The role
This role exists because of growth. You’ll be stepping into real problems that matter now, not hypotheticals, and will be expected to make things better, faster and more scalable. This role requires someone who has a very strong understanding of JavaScript and can write clean, well-documented code but is not afraid to implement a quick fix when necessary. While you don't need to have prior experience with specific libraries or frameworks, you're comfortable diving into and learning new ones as needed. You're eager to share your opinions and ideas to help us continuously improve our processes and workflows. You're a quick learner and willing to embrace new technologies and approaches as we evolve.

What you’ll own
This is a role with real responsibility and autonomy. You’ll own outcomes, make decisions and help shape how we work as we scale, in an environment that values respect, directness and good intent. What is required:

• Previous software engineering experience
• Expert level knowledge of JavaScript / Typescript
• Strong understanding of modern CSS best practices and browser Web APIs
• Experience with a JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue, Svelte or Angular
• Demonstrated empathy for design and UX best practice.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Puppeteer, Cypress or Testcafe

Nice to have

• Good Back-end knowledge and coding experience in Python or Java
• Previous experience working with data visualisation libraries such as E-Charts, D3.js, HighCharts, Recharts
• Good experience working with smaller teams and proven project management skills
• Geo-visualization tools and mapping integrations
• Experience with Tanstack for URL routing and state management
• Previous experience working on dynamic and challenging dashboards
• Previous experience writing UI components with performance and accessibility in mind.
• Experience implementing design systems (Bonus point for Figma and Storybook experience)

What you’ll get at CitySwift

• A role with real scope, where your impact is visible, your salary is reviewed as we grow, and there are career progression opportunities as the company scales and internationalises.
• Comprehensive health and life insurance through Laya Healthcare in Ireland and Aviva in the UK.
• Flexible working with hybrid working as the default in Ireland, core hours of 10am to 4pm, remote options depending on role and a work abroad programme of up to 6 weeks.
• 25 days annual leave from day one, increasing by half a day per year of service, plus company days off, a half day before public holidays and an end of year shutdown.
• Enhanced family leave, including 6 months fully paid maternity leave and 3 weeks paid paternity leave after 18 months’ service (and wedding leave!)
• And on top of all of this, the usuals done well. A matching pension scheme that increases with service, paid sick leave, bike to work scheme, wellbeing supports, and an employee referral programme with rewards of up to €4,000 (or equivalent) per referral.