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 at 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. This is a key hands-on role within our Foundations squad, which involves building and maintaining the core foundational components that support our product and internal squads. 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 delivering 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 - Ownership in the company via Share Options. - Paternity/Maternity Leave Policies. - Flexible Remote-First Work Policy. - Company wide Development & Coaching. - Hackathons. - Awards - "Your Time to Shine & Celebrate Success." - Social Events & variety of social clubs (Books, LGBT, Games, Sports). - Mental Health Support. - Munch & Learns. Deputy believes in equal opportunity and that inclusiveness and diversity promote innovation. Our global team members are from a variety of cultures. And we welcome different perspectives and skills. #LI-Hybrid
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