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From OSS transformation to rApp development and network intelligence, our teams simplify complexity and turn it into competitive advantage. Based in Ireland and operating across the EU, UK, and US, Zinkworks combines deep domain expertise with delivery excellence to help clients modernize faster and operate smarter.\nAbout the Project\nWe're forming a dedicated delivery squad for a high-growth international technology client. The goal is to move customer support from reactive to proactive. The new platform will detect service issues from the client's operational data, assess their business impact, trigger remediation, and let affected customers know before they have to ask.\nIt's a greenfield, data- and AI-driven build on Google Cloud, delivered in phases. It starts with incident detection and human-approved remediation, then adds more granular detection and broader automated actions, and ends with a closed-loop system that acts autonomously within defined safety limits. You'll join a squad of around nine people, including a Solution Architect, data, ML, backend, frontend, UX, QA and platform engineers, working in the client's own tooling (Jira, Git, CI/CD).\nThe Role\nYou'll build the services that turn a detected incident into action: the impact scoring engine, the incident workflow, remediation through the client's systems, and the communications that go out to operators and customers. This is backend engineering where correctness matters, because the system takes real actions on customer accounts, and eventually does so without a human in the loop.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild a prioritisation and impact scoring engine that ranks incidents by affected customers, revenue at risk, likely refunds and the cost of the remedy.\n\nIntegrate with internal and third-party APIs through discovery, sandbox integration and contract tests, then build batch remediation actions behind an approval gate.\n\nImplement cohort assembly with eligibility rules, guardrails and idempotency so remediation is safe to retry.\n\nBuild the incident workflow state machine with full logging and an audit trail, plus automated recovery verification that closes incidents once service is restored.\n\nIntegrate Slack for the internal incident lifecycle and Intercom for targeted proactive customer messaging.\n\nExtend remediation capabilities with cost caps, blast-radius limits and operator preview.\n\nBuild the safety controls for autonomous operation: rate limits, circuit breakers, a global kill switch and escalation logic.\n\nExpose clean APIs for the incident console and dashboards, and contribute to code review and engineering standards across the squad.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\nStrong commercial experience building production backend services in Python (e.g. FastAPI, Flask or Django).\n\nSolid API design and integration experience with third-party systems, including contract testing.\n\nExperience designing workflow or state-machine driven systems with auditability.\n\nA good grasp of reliability patterns: idempotency, retries, rate limiting and circuit breakers.\n\nExperience deploying and operating services on a cloud platform, ideally Google Cloud, with CI/CD and infrastructure as code.\n\nStrong testing discipline across unit, integration and end-to-end levels.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience building feature pipelines for ML models.\n\nTools such as dbt, or experience working with high-volume device or telemetry data.\n\nBackground in telecoms or telemetry data.\n\nExperience in client-facing consultancy or managed delivery environments.\n\nInclusion & Diversity at Zinkworks\nAt Zinkworks, we are deeply committed to fostering a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. 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