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With over 3,000 people across 20+ countries, we power the technology behind the moments that matter, at global scale.\n\nTechnology & Digital\nSoftware Engineer (Backend / Platform)\nFull-time Hybrid (role-dependent) Dublin / London\nBuild resilient services that support global trading and supply chain operations across our commodity businesses. You’ll ship high-quality software, own it in production, and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable solutions for key initiatives.\nRole in a nutshell\nYou’ll design, build, and operate backend services and platform capabilities that enable colleagues across multiple regions to move faster with confidence. Working in an agile engineering team, you’ll turn complex workflows into simple, reliable software - with a strong focus on quality, security, observability, and continuous improvement.\nWhat you’ll do\nDesign and build backend services and APIs that support trading, risk, operations, and finance workflows.\nOwn work end-to-end: discovery → design → implementation → testing → deployment → monitoring in production.\nImprove reliability and performance through observability, automation, and pragmatic engineering practices.\nWrite clean, testable code; participate in code reviews and collaborate closely with other engineers.\nTroubleshoot complex issues across services, infrastructure, and integrations; run root-cause analysis and implement durable fixes.\nContribute to technical direction: architecture decisions, tech debt prioritisation, and platform evolution.\nDesired experience\n3-6 years’ experience building and supporting production software (backend and/or platform engineering).\nStrong proficiency in at least one language (e.g., Java, Python, Go, C#, Node.js).\nExperience designing and consuming APIs (REST and/or event-driven patterns).\nSolid knowledge of data stores (SQL and/or NoSQL) and data modelling for scale and performance.\nFamiliarity with cloud environments, CI/CD, and modern deployment approaches (containers, Kubernetes, or similar).\nComfortable with logging/metrics/tracing and production support (on-call or incident response).\nClear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders; ownership mindset aligned to our values.\nNice to have\nExperience in high-availability or regulated environments; security-minded development; data pipelines/analytics platforms.\nHow we work\nRespect\nCollaborate with empathy\nIntegrity\nDo what’s right\nEntrepreneurship\nOwn outcomes\nClient Focus\nDeliver real value\nMeritocracy\nGrow through impact\nBenefits\nFinal benefits vary by location and role.\nHealth & coverage\nComprehensive medical cover (where applicable) and wellbeing support.\nTime & wellbeing\nCompetitive annual leave, flexible working options (role-dependent), and time to recharge.\nLearning & growth\nMentoring, continuous improvement culture, and opportunities to work on global-scale systems.\nAbout the team\nYou’ll join a collaborative engineering team building dependable systems that support a fast-moving, global business. We value curiosity, practical problem-solving, and engineers who take ownership from idea to production.\nInclusion & belonging\nWe believe diverse teams build better products. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work.\nReady to apply? Use the “Apply” button on this page. We’ll be in touch if your experience aligns.\n\nWhy join us\n\n◆ Global reach, local teams\n\n◆ NASDAQ-listed, global scale\n\n◆ Real-time data at the heart of every product\n\n◆ Work behind the world's biggest sporting moments\n\n◆ 1,600+ partners & clients worldwide\n\n◆ Entrepreneurial culture, backed by scale","description_format":"text","description_chars":3891,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T00:19:15Z"}],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.229,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":236,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:10","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nikkansports-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nikkansports-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T03:37:28Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3156,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1844,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}