Senior Front End Engineer

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer (Front 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.

Responsibilities

• Make technical decisions and deliver technical solutions, with consideration for high-performance, high-quality systems and applications. Use hands-on technical expertise to drive solutions for a range of challenges. 
• Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement.
• Design, implement, and deliver software solutions for product features, with consideration for high-performance, high-quality systems and applications.
• Write simple, efficient, self-documented modular, high-quality code that follows best practices and improves the overall codebase. 
• Align with our Design, Engineering and Product principles to build product & technical solutions that drive customer value with quality and performance.
• Uphold a high bar of engineering standards and co-ordinate with Infrastructure and Quality.
• Accountability for delivering technical solutions within estimated timeframes
• Influence and problem-solve with senior, mid, and junior engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes. This role may not have direct reports, but your leadership and mentorship will drive the squads to successful outcomes.
• Mentor and guide more junior engineers in an impactful and meaningful way to their growth trajectory.

Skills & Experience

• You are a skilful engineer with high standards and a passion for quality backed by 5+ years of related work experience.
• Strategic problem-solver who excels at tackling complex technical challenges and providing innovative solutions that enhance product performance and user experience.
• 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.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless integration and deployment workflows that accelerate development cycles and ensure high-quality releases.
• Extensive experience implementing responsive designs into software by developing reusable components with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• In-depth knowledge of CSS and JavaScript libraries/frameworks. We use Vue.
• Extensive experience working with various APIs (REST, GraphQL) and understanding how systems and microservices integrate.

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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