Principal Software Engineer - 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 Principal Engineer (Backend), you will play a key role in progressing our company mission of improving the world of work, one shift at a time. You will be responsible for making strategic technical decisions that are sustainable, robust, and highly likely to succeed, accelerating the company's business, growth and innovation trajectory.

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 knowing with confidence that your work is being used to power 365,000 workplaces and the livelihood of millions of users worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Define, lead, and document the long-term technical direction that enables the engineering team's long-term scaling, aligned with our business goals.
• Promote innovation, efficiency, scalability and a culture of excellence within the organisation.
• Serve as a technical authority, providing guidance and mentorship to our engineering teams.
• Form a key member of the technical leadership team, driving standards, ways of working and platform decision-making at an organisational level. 
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Infrastructure, Platform Quality, Product and Design teams to ensure high-quality solutions and practices are employed.
• Drive discussions on new solutions, architectural choices, and emerging technologies that enable operational scalability and enhance the developer experience.
• Ensure that our technical decisions uphold the highest standards of quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security.
• Advocate for and implement advanced testing methodologies and CI/CD practices.

Skills & Experience

• 10+ years in software development including significant time in a leadership or principal role
• Deep SaaS experience across multiple domains or problem spaces
• Have created a multi-year technical vision and seen it through to fruition through the deployment of solid communication skills
• Mastery of PHP, Go or other large scale tech stack would be highly advantageous
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to introduce new technologies or practices to a large engineering function and ensure successful take-up through advocacy, education and governance
• Possess excellent problem-solving skills, and have used these to have an outsized impact on a technical project
• Proven ability to shape architectural strategies and drive technical innovation.
• Execute on strategic direction including shifts in technology and paradigms.
• Have built a deep strength in at least one contemporary area of software technology, such but not limited to ML, search engines, or event-based architectures.

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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