Staff Software Engineer - Back End

At Deputy, we empower businesses to build thriving workplaces - ones where staff are engaged, customers are served well, businesses are legally compliant, and companies’ profits thrive. Our reach extends across 100+ countries worldwide, serving more than 330,000 workplaces.

Deputy is a global SaaS workforce management company headquartered in Sydney, San Francisco, and London, backed by top investors and recently surpassed $100m in annual recurring revenue. We've helped millions of workers across industries and aim to empower 80% of the global workforce. If you're passionate about improving the world of work, one shift a time, join us at Deputy and help shape the future of hourly employment!

Here at Deputy, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

As a Staff Engineer (Back end), you will lead the build of key technical projects that further the companies products and platforms. In turn, you’ll be progressing our company mission of improving our customers business productivity, wage compliance and employee satisfaction. You will be working closely with your peers, product, design and leadership to build amazing products and features for the Deputy platform, delivering services and products to millions of users and businesses from small & medium to enterprise.

You wake up every morning knowing with confidence that the work you do, from the user facing experiences to the backend APIs are being used to power 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.
• 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.
• Distribute work to Sr, Mid and Jr. engineers
• Form a key member of the technical leadership team, driving standards, ways of working and platform decision-making
• This role is a player-coach

Skills & Experience

• 8+ years experience of software engineering experience - with proven experience in leading technical projects on building high-performing, architecturally complex consumer products, with a focus on backend development
• Deep understanding of backend technologies, including databases (SQL/NoSQL), micro services architecture, cloud platforms (AWS), and CI/CD pipelines
• Mastery of PHP, or Go would be highly advantageous
• 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