Engineering Manager

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.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering, your key responsibilities will be to direct a team of dedicated engineers of varied experience levels. 

Engineering innovation is the fuel that powers Deputy. As a Software Engineering Manager your mission is to take our high performing team to new heights, building a world-class engineering team. 

As we are a growth company, you’ll have a strong bias to innovation, growth and adapting to change.

You’ll be a technical mentor and people coach to a team of 10+ software engineers, unleashing and inspiring our teams to solve real-world problems with innovative, elegant solutions with balanced tradeoffs. 

Responsibilities: Inspiring Technical Manager

• This is a highly technical role. You will be expected to lead from a place of understanding and to do so you will develop an intimate understanding of the underlying technical architecture as well as contributing to the future direction of the platform. Your first months will see you writing code and contributing as an individual contributor.
• Co-create the technical vision, strategy and technical roadmap planning and product definition for your team, alongside your technical leads and PM/product designer
• Become intimately familiar with our product, languages, and our tech stack to drive decisions about frameworks, architecture and decisions
• Bias towards value creation: guide the team to building innovative, elegant solutions by balancing trade-offs with the best interests of the company. Guide the team on important architectural and long-term engineering decisions, as well as shorter-term tradeoffs. Stay technical to provide meaningful guidance on engineering decisions.
• Drive the scalability and reliability of your squads offering as we grow
• Keep your pulse on the craft: writing architecture designs, working with infrastructure and quality on tooling for your team, and/or exploring POCs

People Leader:

• Mentor, develop, and guide 10 software engineers so they can do their best work.
• Lead the recruiting of new engineers within your team as we grow and build a world-class, sustainable and diverse engineering team.
• Own the Engineering Team Engagement score (quarterly measure of team engagement), by building upon our interactive, learning-oriented engineering community

Drive high performance:

• Bias towards value creation: guide the team to building innovative, elegant solutions by balancing trade-offs with the best interests of the company. Guide the team on important architectural and long-term engineering decisions, as well as shorter-term tradeoffs. Stay technical to provide meaningful guidance on engineering decisions.
• Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
• Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
• Lead the recruiting of new engineers within your team as we grow and build a world-class, sustainable and diverse engineering team.
• Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance
• Own the Engineering Team Engagement score (quarterly measure of team engagement), by building upon our interactive, learning-oriented engineering community

Technical leadership:

• Become intimately familiar with our product, systems, and our tech stack to drive decisions about frameworks, architecture and decisions
• Drive adoption of best practices and best in class technology, design best practices, enforce principles of work
• Remove single point of failures by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
• Experience with working on legacy codebase and migrating to newer architecture including data migration
• Developing subject matter technical expert in the domain you own
• Responsible for the technical decision making and architecture across portfolio of squads
• Accountability for 2-3 OKRs aligned to Company goals
• Can clearly design and communicate a technical roadmap to the organisation with proof of value.

Skills & Experience

• You have 2+ years of software engineering management experience building productive, high functioning teams. You can describe why these teams were high functioning and what you specifically did to ensure engineers felt productive.
• Technical acumen. Ability to converse deeply with engineers and technical executives
• Experience in a fast growing scale-up environment, with a bias to innovation and growth. Bonus points for a multi-tenant SaaS org.
• Growth mindset. We are an early stage company that hasn’t figured it all out yet!
• Humbitious. We are ambitious to aim to make a significant global impact, and build a generational company, while humble enough to know it’ll take lots of hard work, learning from mistakes, and great people
• High agency mindset. High Agency is about finding a way to get what you want, without waiting for conditions to be perfect or otherwise blaming the circumstances. High Agency people either “find a way” in the face of adverse conditions or navigate to reverse the adverse conditions to achieve goals.
• Passion for technology. A nerd at heart, you know the massive leverage and exponential ability innovative technical solutions can have in making an impact in the world.
• Experience building distributed web based cloud native applications and services.
• Experience in various cloud computing/architecture - AWS with Multi-region, multi-tenant experience
• Experience in deploying highly scalable systems with various techniques and design patterns
• Experience in the operations of large multi tenant storage deployments (we use MySQL & various no-SQL)
• Experience in system architecture patterns like SOA, micro services, EDA (event driven architecture)
• Experience in key cloud native technologies like Kubernetes (EKS), containerisation, Kafka, etc
• Programming Languages - PHP, Golang, Terraform, Python

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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