Senior Software Engineer - Backend

February 26

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Deputy

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Deputy is a comprehensive cloud-based workforce management platform that simplifies employee scheduling, timesheets, and HR management in one place. It is used by over 365,000 workplaces in more than 100 countries and is popular among shift workers for its ability to streamline labor management. The platform helps businesses manage labor costs, avoid payroll mistakes, and ensure compliance with labor laws. It offers features such as smart scheduling, shift swapping, time tracking, onboarding, and labor law compliance. Deputy is designed to enhance business efficiency and profitability with tools like AI-powered scheduling and labor forecasting.

Intelligent Scheduling • Accountability • Attendance • Integration with Payroll • Compliance

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2008

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

📋 Compliance

📋 Description

• 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 Senior Software Engineer (Back End), 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.

🎯 Requirements

• You are a skilful engineer with high standards and a passion for quality backed by 5+ years of related work experience. • You have expertise in API design (REST & RPC) and its frameworks. Including using protobuf, gRPC, OpenAPI • Experience with building service-oriented architecture, microservices, and modern techniques and tools around it. Including using Docker, ECS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, etc • Experience in a few persistence, storage and caching mechanisms. Including MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, etc. • Experience with Elasticsearch is desirable. • Mastery of PHP, or Go would be highly advantageous. • 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. • Strategic problem-solver who excels at tackling complex technical challenges and providing innovative solutions that enhance product performance and user experience. • Ability to lead by example, rolling up your sleeves to “show the way” • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and contribute to architectural decision-making. • Experience with mentoring junior and mid-level developers, promoting best practices, and contributing to architectural decisions. • Thrives under high levels of autonomy, takes initiative and ownership, and can navigate ambiguity. Has demonstrated ability to lead projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive project progress in a fast-paced environment. • Passionate about continuous learning, with a deep commitment to staying ahead of industry trends and experimenting with new tools, frameworks, and development practices.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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