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Hybrid Role | 3 days per week in the office | Cork City Centre
Barden is delighted to partner with a tech company in Cork in their search for a Principal Software Engineer to join their team. This person will work closely with engineering leadership to evolve legacy systems into modern, cloud-native architectures.
ABOUT THE ROLE (.NET | C#)
- Leading the technical execution of large-scale platform modernisation initiatives
- Writing production code and leading complex engineering work across the team
- Decomposing legacy systems and introducing modern architectural patterns
- Partnering with architecture, platform and product teams to define service boundaries and integration patterns
- Establishing engineering standards, testing practices and design principles across the team
- Leading technical design discussions and mentoring engineers at different experience levels
- Driving incremental modernisation approaches that avoid large-scale rewrites
- Identifying opportunities to leverage AI-assisted development tools and intelligent capabilities within the platform
ABOUT YOU
- Deep expertise with .NET / C# and modern engineering practices: 10+ years of hands-on experience
- Active daily user of AI development tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) – these are how you work, not tools you’ve tried once
- Significant experience modernising legacy systems into modern architectures
- Strong TypeScript / Angular experience, with the ability to own features end-to-end across the full stack
- Strong experience designing and building distributed or service-oriented systems
- Cloud-native development experience (Azure preferred)
- Experience working across the full development lifecycle including CI/CD and automated testing
- Strong database and performance optimisation experience
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and influence engineering standards across teams
OTHER DETAILS
- Opportunity to play a key role in the modernisation of a large-scale production platform
- Work alongside senior engineering leadership and architecture teams
- Modern engineering environment with strong focus on cloud and AI-enabled development tools
- Opportunity to influence engineering practices and technical direction across multiple teams
Permanent position: salary + benefits (pension, full family healthcare, etc.)
If suitable, please apply here or contact rachel.mcguckian@Barden.ie for more information.
