Back End Engineer

Back End Engineer @The Dock

The Dock is Accenture’s flagship R&D and Global Innovation Center, based in Dublin’s Grand Canal Dock. As an incubation hub for the next generation of AI and GenAI agentic solutions, The Dock brings together a global community of business strategists, designers, engineers, data scientists, and entrepreneurs.

Our mission is to solve some of the world’s hardest problems and create transformational products and services that help industries thrive in the face of unprecedented change. From shaping the future of work with intelligent systems to building breakthrough digital platforms, our team operates across the entire innovation spectrum, from exploration to real-world deployment.

At The Dock, we experiment boldly, collaborate openly, and build the future in real time.

We’re looking for a Backend Engineering Lead to join our Technology Engineering & Analytics practice. At The Dock, you’ll be part of an innovation-driven team helping to design, build and deliver next-generation solutions—from early prototypes and MVPs to scalable, production-ready systems.

As a Backend Engineering Lead, you’ll take a prominent role in technical discussions and contribute to designing, developing, and maintaining robust, secure, and scalable products. You’ll be responsible for building the APIs, databases and business logic that underpin new applications, ensuring they are performant and reliable.

You will act as a technical mentor, supporting junior developers and raising technical quality across the team through PR code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.

By engaging directly with clients and stakeholders, you’ll translate functional and technical requirements into practical solutions. You’ll document key technical decisions, architectural patterns, and reusable components to accelerate delivery and define technical epics with clear workload estimations.

Collaboration is central to the role—you’ll work closely with Design, Product, Data, and DevOps teams to deliver compelling, user-focused products that balance innovation with long-term scalability.

Education: B.Sc./B.Eng./M.Sc./M.Eng./PhD degree(s) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, related fields or relevant professional experience.

What does Accenture, The Dock offer you?

Working at Accenture means joining a company that prides itself on being Truly Human. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package that includes:

Please note that with all our roles, you should expect some in-person time for collaboration, learning and building relationships with client, peers, leaders and communities. As an employer, we will be flexible as soon as possible to support your specific work/life needs.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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