Lead Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

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 the Lead Software Engineer, Developer Productivity, you will be working closely with your peers, product, design and leadership to uplift the productivity and effectiveness of how software is built within the Deputy organisation, knowing that the work you do enables millions of users worldwide.

You have a knack for removing toil, optimising for people's time and maximising the capability of your peers. You’re able to provide the tooling and capabilities across all teams to provide them with the information they need to better understand how their work contributes to all aspects of the Deputy platform, and how they can look to improve. You have high agency, able to find opportunities where most time is spent and optimising for your peer’s happiness. You are a multiplier and have a knack for machinery and are a jack of all trades.

Responsibilities

• Digest & interpret qualitative and quantitative feedback from the team to inform the productivity roadmap and observe impact
• Ideate, architect and build tooling to unlock our engineering teams potential
• Be customer obsessed, where your customers are our engineers
• Own and improve the developer experience across the web stack, from dev tooling to CI/CD.
• Align with the Engineering cohort to improve and optimise the onboarding experience of software engineers, from zero-to-hero.
• Own and continue to modernise the developer tech stack to maximise productivity.
• Engage with product engineering squads to embed a culture of effectiveness and continue to improve their day to day operations.
• Build and own self-serve internal tooling that amplifies technical and non-technical teams while minimising toil for the product & engineering teams.

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in software development and 2+ years of experience as a senior engineer.
• Pragmatic engineer who can combine software and systems engineering to build and run developer tech stack for a large number of developers.
• Have a solid understanding of the nature of and common problems with distributed systems, especially when it comes to architecting, maintaining, and debugging them.
• Capable of working with multiple programming languages for multiple purposes. We primarily use Go, PHP, JS, with Terraform for our Infrastructure as code. You have knowledge of an array of cloud native technologies, such as Hashicorp Vault, Open Telemetry, OpenAPI, and gRPC.
• Experience with various CI/CD platforms & build tools, we use Jenkins, Github actions, CircleCI, Makefiles.
• Comfortable collaborating with multiple stakeholders of both technical and non-technical capabilities.
• Strong grasp and comfort level with containers and various virtualisation technologies, primarily Docker, ECS/ECR, and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Strong grasp of security and risk management to ensure a safe and secure development environment.
• Strong understanding and exposure to cloud environments, primarily AWS.
• Good understanding and experience with various storage and caching technologies, and their influence on the reliability within a complex system. We use Aurora MySQL, Redis, and RDS MySQL.
• Experience with low code and no-code systems to rapidly develop tooling and internal applications.