Software Engineer II - Backend

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 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.

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 100,000s of workplaces and the livelihood of millions of users worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and deliver software solutions for product features - with consideration to high performance, high-quality systems and applications using modern industry best practices.
• Own the quality of your work by thoroughly testing your solutions, including writing automated tests.
• Collaborate with the appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements for semi well-defined problems
• Write simple, efficient, self-documented modular high-quality code that follows best practices.
• Investigate debug and solve issues within a bounded context.
• Engage in technical discussion 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, a passion for quality, and 1+ years of related work experience.
• Solid computer science fundamentals: algorithms and data structures.
• Language agnostic, have experience in a few languages. We use Golang, PHP, Javascript
• Expertise in API design (REST & RPC) and its frameworks. We use protobuf, gRPC, OpenAPI
• Experience with building service oriented architecture, microservices, and modern techniques and tools around it. We use Docker, ECS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, etc
• Experience in a few persistence, storage and caching mechanisms. We use MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, etc
• Understanding of what it takes to build reliable, scalable and resilient systems using modern best practices, e.g: Caching, monitoring, tracing, eventual consistency, queues, load balancing, circuit breaking, etc.
  
  

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 promotes innovation. Our global team members are from a variety of cultures. And we welcome different perspective and skills.