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Lead Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Deputy

Deputy

Software Engineering
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted 6+ months ago
At Deputy we’re on a mission to change the way the world of hourly work “works”. Businesses that use Deputy unlock thriving workplaces – one where staff are engaged and empowered, customers are served well, businesses are legally compliant, and companies profits thrive. For decades, software has primarily driven innovation in knowledge work businesses (Slack, Zoom, Asana, Notion), rather than hourly work businesses (think cafes, retail, manufacturing, medical clinics) – we are here to change that!
Deputy is a global cloud SaaS workforce management software company, HQ'd in Sydney (AU), San Francisco, and London (UK). We’ve helped 10s of millions of people across all industries in 70+ countries save time and money managing their hourly workforce so they can focus on what they do best, run thriving businesses.
We have crossed $100m ARR, with strong financial stability and backed by leading US/Global investors. Our Target Market is about 60% of the world’s workforce, an ambitious vision, matched with an incredible values-led culture. Come join us!
MISSION? “THE WHY”
As the Lead Software Engineer, Developer Productivity, you will be working closely with your peers, product, design and leadership to uplift the productivity and effectiveness of how software is built within the Deputy organisation, knowing that the work you do enables millions of users worldwide.
You have a knack for removing toil, optimising for people's time and maximising the capability of your peers. You’re able to provide the tooling and capabilities across all teams to provide them with the information they need to better understand how their work contributes to all aspects of the Deputy platform, and how they can look to improve. You have high agency, able to find opportunities where most time is spent and optimising for your peer’s happiness. You are a multiplier and have a knack for machinery and are a jack of all trades.

Responsibilities:

  • Collect qualitative and quantitative feedback from the team to inform the productivity roadmap and observe impact
  • Ideate, architect and build tooling to unlock our engineering teams potential
  • Be customer obsessed, where your customers are our engineers
  • Own and improve the developer experience across the web stack, from dev tooling to CI/CD.
  • Align with the Engineering cohort to improve and optimise the onboarding experience of software engineers, from zero-to-hero.
  • Own and continue to modernise the developer tech stack to maximise productivity.
  • Engage with product engineering squads to embed a culture of effectiveness and continue to improve their day to day operations.
  • Build and own self-serve internal tooling that amplifies technical and non-technical teams while minimising toil for the product & engineering teams.

About you:

  • Pragmatic engineer who can combine software and systems engineering to build and run developer tech stack for a large number of developers.
  • Have a solid understanding of the nature of and common problems with distributed systems, especially when it comes to architecting, maintaining, and debugging them.
  • Capable of working with multiple programming languages for multiple purposes. We primarily use Go, PHP, JS, with Terraform for our Infrastructure as code. You have knowledge of an array of cloud native technologies, such as Hashicorp Vault, Open Telemetry, OpenAPI, and gRPC.
  • Comfortable collaborating with multiple stakeholders of both technical and non-technical capabilities.
  • Strong grasp and comfort level with containers and various virtualisation technologies, primarily Docker, ECS/ECR, and Kubernetes (EKS).
  • Strong grasp of security and risk management to ensure a safe and secure development environment.
  • Strong understanding and exposure to cloud environments, primarily AWS.
  • Good understanding and experience with various storage and caching technologies, and their influence on the reliability within a complex system. We use Aurora MySQL, Redis, and RDS MySQL.
  • Experience with low code and no-code systems to rapidly develop tooling and internal applications.
Employee Perks
- Share Options
- Paternity/Maternity Leave Policies
- Flexible 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
Learn More About Deputy
Customer Reviews - GetApp and G2Crowd
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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