Software Engineer 3: Backend - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Overview 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! Role As a Backend Software Engineer, 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. Responsibilities Working independently to solve complex, highly ambiguous customer-facing problems. Scope, specify, design, implement and deliver software solutions, applying modern industry best practices to deliver resilient, high-performance, high-quality, and scalable systems and applications. Develop end-to-end solutions, writing clean and efficient code for front-end web applications and back-end services to deliver seamless user experiences. Own the quality of your work by thoroughly testing your solutions, including writing automated tests. Collaborate with the engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to determine requirements and deliver complex problems. Write simple, efficient, self-documented, modular, high-quality code that follows best practices. Investigate, debug and solve issues within a bounded context. Provide coaching to junior team members across the entire SDLC. Engage in technical discussions of solutions and process improvement through documentation, design reviews, pair programming, code review and technology discussions. Skills & Experience You are a skilful engineer with high standards and a passion for quality backed by 5+ years of related work experience. You are customer-obsessed, always working to deliver solutions that give the best possible experience for customers. You show a bias for action and have a demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality, scalable, and fault-tolerant software systems. You have strong computer science fundamentals: algorithms and data structures. You are programming language agnostic with proficiency in front-end (e.g. Javascript, modern frameworks like React/Vue) and back-end (e.g. PHP, Golang) development. You have expertise in API design (REST & RPC) and its frameworks. Including using protobuf, gRPC, OpenAPI Experience building service-oriented architecture, microservices, and modern techniques and tools. Including using Docker, ECS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, etc Experience in a few persistence, storage and caching mechanisms. Including MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, etc Experience implementing responsive designs into software by developing reusable components with JavaScript, HTML and CSS You have experience embedding 3rd party software solutions into other platforms, providing a seamless experience for users. You build systems that include appropriate monitoring and observability, employing modern best practices for fault tolerance, including but not limited to caching, eventual consistency, queues, load balancing, circuit breaking, etc. 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 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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