Job Description
Deputy is a global SaaS workforce management company with hubs in Sydney, Melbourne, San Francisco and London, plus team members working remotely across the United States. Our platform serves over 1.5 million workers and 375,000 workplaces across 100+ countries. We are backed by top global investors and recently achieved Unicorn status.
At Deputy, we’re improving the world of work, one shift at a time, for 80% of the world’s workforce: hourly workers. These are the dedicated employees who keep our world running – from baristas to nurses, cleaners to delivery drivers, florists to factory workers. Despite their vital role in society, most workplace technology has focused on those workers who sit behind a desk, but at Deputy, we transform the frontline. When businesses use Deputy, their workplaces thrive – the business is more profitable, compliant, and productive, while the workers are more engaged and happier at work.
We’re becoming an AI-native company, a commitment that means you’ll be empowered (and expected) to use AI tools and thinking in your day-to-day work. You’ll have the training, support, and freedom to use AI responsibly and creatively to spark ideas, solve problems faster, and unlock new ways of working.
If you’re passionate about creating solutions that put people first and helping businesses and their teams thrive, join us at Deputy and make an impact where it matters most!
This is a key hands-on role within our Pay Rates domain, which involves helping shape and build the next generation of bleeding-edge pay interpretation and compliance features to automate complex award and agreement logic, offer exceptional user experiences, and utilise data-driven insights to ensure scalability and efficiency
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you will leverage your experience to make a meaningful impact on initiatives and influence your peers. You will drive quality outcomes for our customers by combining strategic thinking and problem-solving skills to identify problems, research and tackle complex challenges, and lead the solution design and development of key projects that advance our mission and align with our broader engineering goals.
You will collaborate closely with peers, product, design, and leadership to build outstanding products and features for the Deputy platform, delivering services to millions of users and businesses, from small and medium-sized enterprises to large corporations.
You wake up every morning with the confidence that your work, from user-facing experiences to backend APIs, powers and improves the livelihood of millions of users worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Make technical decisions, and deliver technical solutions. Use hands-on, technical expertise to drive solutions for a range of challenges. You will be writing code in this role.
- Research, create POCs and introduce new technologies to the team. Advocate and adopt the latest trends, and enhance developer experience.
- Uphold a high bar of engineering standards and co-ordinate with Infrastructure and Quality
- Collaborate with Product and Design to discover and estimate solution options to key strategic initiatives
- Accountability for delivering technical solutions within estimated timeframes
- Operate in a get-things-done, value demonstrating, iterative manner
- Influence and problem solve with Sr, Mid and Jr. engineers to deliver high quality outcomes. This role may not have direct reports, but your leadership and mentorship will be key to driving the squads to successful outcomes.
- Mentoring and distribute work to Mid and Jr. engineers
- Participate in team leadership activities, drive standards, ways of working and platform decision making
Skills & Experience
- 5+ years experience delivery quality software
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- 2+ years experience as a Senior software engineer on high-performing, architecturally complex consumer products
- Mastery of PHP, or Go would be highly advantageous
- Experience with Elasticsearch is desirable.
- Ability to lead by example, rolling up your sleeves to “show the way”
- Outstanding problem solving skills, finding elegant solutions to complex problems
- Collaborative approach to working with other teams
- Thoughtful approach to leading and mentoring other engineers
- Proactive and effective communication style
- Strong contributor to the maintenance of an open and transparent culture
Employee Perks
- Enjoy a flexible work policy (with a work-from-home stipend to set you up for success!)
- Own A piece of Deputy via our Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Take paid parental leave to support you and your family
- Stay protected with Group Salary Continuance Insurance
- Access support through our Employee Assistance Program
- Enjoy additional leave days — including study assistance, celebration days and volunteering
- Join our global working groups focused on collaboration, belonging and connection
- Get creative at our annual Hackathons
- Take advantage of our novated leasing for electric vehicles, internet reimbursement and more!
Learn more about our Design, Engineering & Product teams here
Deputy believes in equal opportunity and that inclusiveness and diversity promotes innovation. Our global team members are from a variety of cultures. And we welcome different perspective and skills.
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