Software Engineer II - Backend

Deputy is a global SaaS workforce management company headquartered in Sydney, San Francisco, and London. 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.

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!

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. 

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