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Software Engineer 3 - backend

Make a difference to Millions of Hourly Workers. We are transforming the hourly paid workforce landscape, over 60% of the global workforce.

Deputy

Employee count: 201-500

Australia only
Deputy is a global SaaS remote-first 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.
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.

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.
  • 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 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 and a passion for quality backed by 3+ 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, but have some experience in Golang, PHP, Javascript.
  • 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
  • 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

- 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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Full Time

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Senior

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Australia +/- 0 hours

About Deputy

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Make a difference to Millions of Hourly Workers.

We are transforming the hourly paid workforce landscape, over 60% of the global workforce.

Want to help us drive change?

Our mission

At Deputy, we believe that life was made for living — not scheduling.

Deputy takes the admin out of work out of the day-to-day so that our customers can focus on doing what they love. Whether it's surfing, cooking, or spending time with family, we believe that's where people should spend their time.

Why join Deputy

  • High-growth Australian company with millions of global customers and massive addressable market

  • Customer love us! (4.9 star app ratings, 60+ NPS)

  • World class global software investors such as OpenView, IVP, Square Peg, evp, validated by largest Series B Round investment round of $111M

  • Remote-friendly, collaborative, customer-first culture

  • Make a meaningful difference in the lives of hourly workers

  • And we're just getting started!

And that's not all...

  • Share Options

  • Maternity and paternity leave policies

  • Flexible work policy

  • Pro-Diversity Workforce

  • Company Hackathons for Good

  • Social events

  • Awards

  • Pro-Diversity

Employee benefits

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Maternity and paternity leave

So you can be with your family without having to think about work.

Employee stock ownership

So you can own part of the Deputy legacy — and truly own your shift.

Flexible work

We all work best in our own ways, and we trust Deputies to get their shift done.

Social events and clubs

Because we don’t just come to work to work: we come for community and connection.

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