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