The Role

Inflight Dublin is looking for a highly talented full-stack Software Engineer to build the innovative web and mobile entertainment applications that run on our on-board Inflight Entertainment systems and in cloud-hosted environments. Your work will be seen by millions of passengers across more than 40 airlines worldwide.

As a full-stack developer, you have excellent typescript experience and have used it within both front-end and back-end projects.

You are comfortable working on green field projects building structures from the ground up using back-end and front-end best practices. You also possess a strong sense of the entire software cycle development, including CI/CD and containerised applications, and a genuine passion for what you do. You are also comfortable with modern AI-assisted development tools and use them thoughtfully to ship higher-quality software faster, while applying sound engineering judgement to everything you commit.

If successful, you will play a key role in the design and development of our advanced web applications which are used by millions of users.

Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Development Manager, the Candidate will have the following responsibilities:

• Write and maintain quality code for a variety of web applications

• Aid in architectural discussion and technology selection of green field projects

• Testing, trouble shooting and bug fixing issues

• Review pull requests, giving constructive and actionable feedback

• Assist dev-ops team to write CI/CD pipelines

• Contribute in kick off, grooming and planning sessions for new and existing projects

• Investigating and breaking down larger bodies of work into tasks

• Mentoring junior members of the team in best practices

• Documentation and unit tests of work

• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, while reviewing and testing all generated code to the same standard as hand-written work

• Share good practices for AI-assisted development with the team and help shape how we adopt these tools responsibly

The Candidate

Must have experience

• Bachelor’s degree in related field

• Up to 5 years of full-stack web development experience producing a broad range of applications

• Excellent working knowledge of typescript

• Excellent understanding of React and its core principles

• Previous experience building RESTful web services ideally with Node.js and Express.js

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases ideally MongoDB

• Experience building styled components

• Experience with CSS3, LESS or SASS or similar

• Understanding of version control systems ideally Git and GitHub

• A good understanding of web protocols and HTML5 APIs

• Understanding of microservices architecture

• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted coding tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar) in day-to-day development, with the judgement to know when to rely on them and when not to

• Familiarity with AWS services such as S3 and EC2

• Experience in Linux administration.

• Knowledge of Docker containerisation

• Deployment of containerised application using docker compose

• Experience with Elastic Search and Kibana

• Familiar with creating unit tests using Jest for front-end and back-end

• Previous experience with Jenkins or GitHub actions pipelines

• Experience interfacing with third-party APIs

• Experience building product features powered by LLM APIs (such as OpenAI or Anthropic), including prompt design.

• Awareness of the cost, latency, security and data-privacy considerations of working with AI tools and services in a production environment

Bonus Experience

• Familiarity with AWS services such as S3 and EC2

• Experience in Linux administration.

• Knowledge of Docker containerisation

• Deployment of containerised application using docker compose

• Experience with Elastic Search and Kibana

• Familiar with creating unit tests using Jest for front-end and back-end

• Previous experience with Jenkins or GitHub actions pipelines

• Experience interfacing with third-party APIs

• Experience building product features powered by LLM APIs (such as OpenAI or Anthropic), including prompt design.

• Awareness of the cost, latency, security and data-privacy considerations of working with AI tools and services in a production environment

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment using tools like JIRA