Summary
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Join a small, highly skilled engineering group focused on turning ambitious ideas into proofs of concept and first-of-a-kind products. You’ll design, build, deploy, and test cloud and backend solutions, tackle challenging technical problems, and collaborate closely with architecture, engineering, and product teams.
Highlights
Work in a small, highly talented team on proofs of concept and first-of-a-kind products that can shape future technology direction. The role offers challenging technical problems, modern tools, and close collaboration with architecture, engineering, and product teams.
Description
About the Role
This is a key role within the MCO Labs teams based in Dublin.
The role is responsible for the implementation of technology proofs of concept and first of a kind new product.
In this role, you will be working with a small, highly talented and driven group to build the POCs and first of a kind solution that will shape the future direction of the MCO product technology.
Cloud & backend technology will form a key part of your toolkit, both for building solutions and powering them.
In this position, you will design, build, deploy and test software, using the best tools and technologies in the market.
You’ll be challenged to do things you’ve never done before, building solutions to problems that appear impossible to solve (if they turn out to be impossible, identifying and highlighting this in a timely manner will be key).
Working closely with the architecture, engineering and product management teams to ensure solutions match future needs and working within the constraints of our business and available technology.
This is a hybrid role; you should expect to spend 2 days a week in the MCO offices in Dublin city centre.
Responsibilities
Prototype & Build
Rapidly prototype and build cloud-native solutions and backend services using Python and frameworks such as Django, Flask or FastAPI.
Leverage multiple DB type(relational or non-relational) in developing efficient solutions.
Use AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EC2and other appropriate services to solve engineering problems effectively.Evaluate new technologies and approaches to improve solution quality and engineering productivity.
End-to-End Delivery & Ownership
Take solutions from prototype through deployment and operational readiness.
Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
Design and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated application and infrastructure delivery.
Apply best practices for security, scalability, reliability, performance and cost optimisation in cloud.
Integrate security and quality checks into development and deployment pipelines.
Contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, engineering standards, reusable components, and technical knowledge sharing.
Experience and Skills
Overall 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.3+ years of hands-on experience in AWS cloud engineering.3+ years of hands-on experience developing backend systems using Python, Flask/Django/FastAPI.Hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB or similar.3+ years of hands-on experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines, using GitLab or similar.Strong understanding of AWS cloud architecture and AWS best practices.Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
About MCO (MyComplianceOffice)
MCO is a global leader dedicated to empowering Financial Services firms to manage compliance programs with ease and efficiency.
Our mission is to foster a fair, transparent, and trusted financial environment worldwide by helping organizations meet their regulatory obligations to society.
At the heart of MCO’s offering is our unique, unified platform, which seamlessly integrates compliance monitoring and data into a single, comprehensive view.
This holistic approach enables firms to maintain compliance across all internal systems, structures, and processes—ensuring peace of mind in an ever-evolving regulatory landscape.
Headquartered in Dublin, MCO has an international footprint, with offices in London, Singapore, Hyderabad, New York, Chicago, Fort Worth, Switzerland, South Africa, Slovenia, and the UAE.
Since our founding in 2008, we have evolved from a specialist provider of “best of breed” employee compliance solutions to a pioneer in integrated compliance technology.
Today, our team of over 400 professionals supports more than 1.5 million users in 128 countries.
Our diverse customer base includes small businesses, large enterprises, four of the world’s top ten asset managers, twenty of the top seventy-five global banks, and three of the top five investment banks for global M&A transactions.
