Lead R&D Engineer (Hybrid)
Nitro
| Company | Nitro |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Dublin |
| Remote | Hybrid |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Lead |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 26 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
About Us:
A global SaaS leader for seamless digital document workflows, Nitro offers a suite of solutions for PDF, eSigning, identity verification and analytics supported by a best-in-class customer success and change management team. With more than 3 million licensed users and 13,000+ business customers across 157 countries, we serve 67% of the Fortune 500.
How We Work:
We aim to create an environment where talented individuals are empowered to excel. How we collaborate, innovate, and engage with one another is important to us. Our work is driven by 5 key principles:
One team, One mission Our collective dedication to Nitro's mission defines us. Together, we are building an environment where everyone feels like a valued part of something bigger than themselves.
Own it We take full ownership of our actions and decisions. We empower one another to lead with confidence, creativity, and a solutions-focused mindset.
Accountable to our customers We are dedicated to our customers and take our commitments seriously. We do what we say we are going to do.
Excellence in execution Driven by passion and precision, we exemplify excellence in our delivery with innovative, top-quality results.
Be bold, fail fast, learn faster We learn as we grow, dare to try, and bravely question. We are not chasing perfection but forever iterating towards it.
These guiding values shape our approach to work, fostering a culture where everyone is inspired to contribute their best.
The Role:
We’re looking for a Lead R&D Engineer who thrives on building and experimenting, someone who’d rather have a working prototype by Friday than a perfect plan by next quarter.
You will help lead a small, high-autonomy team focused on rapid experimentation at the intersection of AI and document workflows. Your job is to explore what’s possible through building proof-of-concept products, putting them in front of users, learn from the feedback, and iterate relentlessly. Some things will work and will ship, and some won’t. The point is to move fast enough to find the ones that matter and the ones that stick. The learning and the iteration is as important as the outcome.
To be clear, this isn’t a role for someone who wants to polish requirements docs or have the perfect architecture. It’s for someone who can leverage AI to build at pace, who has deep user empathy, who questions the status quo, and who thrives on the ambiguity of figuring out what the right thing to build even is.
Your work will span building new web and desktop applications, AI assistants, intelligent document processing, workflow automation, MCP servers, and AI services that integrate with Nitro’s API platform and existing products.
What you’ll be doing:
Helping lead a small R&D team focused on building experimental document workflow solutions, from concept to working prototype
Rethinking how people work with documents, building and shipping proof-of-concept products fast, gathering real user feedback, and iterating based on what you learn
Designing and building cloud AI services using modern frameworks and generative AI technologies
Building solutions including AI assistants, intelligent document processing pipelines, automation workflows, and MCP servers
Using AI-assisted development tools aggressively to dramatically accelerate how the team builds
Setting technical direction for the team while staying deeply hands-on
Collaborating with other engineering teams, product, design, and customer teams to identify high-impact problems worth solving
Evaluating emerging technologies and pulling them into Nitro’s platform where they create real value
Championing new ideas across the organisation and helping successful experiments and prototypes get to production
What we’re looking for:
A builder first mentality
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