Senior Staff Software Engineer Belfast | Hybrid | Permanent At a Glance Senior technical leadership role with real influence on architecture and delivery Distributed systems focus powering reporting, analytics, and client-facing dashboards High data volumes and complex, performance-critical applications Hybrid working from Belfast Salary: £90,000 Who You'll Work For Our client is a technology organisation building sophisticated data and analytics products at scale. Their engineering team operates with a strong culture of quality and innovation, and this role sits at the heart of how they design, deliver, and evolve the systems their clients depend on every day. What You'll Be Doing This is a hands-on technical leadership role with broad ownership across distributed systems and data platforms. Your remit covers: Leading the design and development of distributed, fault-tolerant systems Building and scaling reporting and analytics platforms that handle high data volumes Owning technical delivery from concept through to production Driving architectural decisions across backend and data systems Ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability across applications Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven features Mentoring engineers and raising engineering best practices across the team Your Impact At this level, your decisions shape the systems that power client-facing insights and reporting. You will be the person others look to on the hardest architectural questions, and your influence will be felt across teams, not just in your own delivery. What We're Looking For Essential 7 years building scalable, distributed systems Strong experience with object-oriented programming languages Experience with backend frameworks and API development Strong SQL skills and proven ability working with large datasets Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure Experience with CI/CD tooling and modern development practices Prior technical leadership and mentoring experience Desirable Exposure to data analytics or visualisation tools Experience with reporting platform design or client-facing analytics products Background working in cross-functional, globally distributed teams What's In It For You Competitive salary of up to £90,000 Private healthcare Pension scheme Hybrid working from Belfast Senior leadership role with genuine architectural influence Work on large-scale, high-impact data and analytics systems If you're interested or have any further questions on the role, please feel free to reach out to Eve Geddis directly on LinkedIn. Skills: Distributed Systems Platform Engineering API Development SQL Data Handling Benefits: Medical Aid / Health Care Pension Fund ADZN1_NI