Software Engineer - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Deputy USA; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Deputy is hiring a Software Engineer to join our Sydney-based team. You will work closely with product, design and leadership to build features for the Deputy platform, delivering services to millions of workers and workplaces worldwide.

You'll contribute across the stack, from front-end interfaces to robust back-end services, and apply modern practices to ensure scalable, fault-tolerant systems. This role supports ongoing modernization and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Customer-obsessed, focused on delivering great UX.
• Bias for action with a track record of shipping quality software.
• Strong CS fundamentals: algorithms and data structures.
• Proficient in front-end (JavaScript, React/Vue) and back-end (PHP, Golang).
• Expertise in API design (REST & RPC) and related tooling.

Responsibilities

• Work with peers, product, design and leadership to build features for the Deputy platform.
• Deliver services to millions of users and businesses from small to enterprise.
• Write clean, well-tested code and maintain high quality standards.
• Own testing, including automated tests, and ensure reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and scope.
• Engage in design reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Coach junior team members across the SDLC.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and process improvements.

Skills

3+ years in software engineering

Frontend: JavaScript React/Vue

Backend: PHP Golang

API design REST gRPC OpenAPI

Docker Cloud services

Microservices architecture

Tools

Docker

OpenAPI

protobuf gRPC

AWS

Job description

Software Engineer - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Deputy is a global SaaS 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.

We're becoming an AI-native company, a commitment that means you'll be empowered (and expected) to use AI tools and thinking in your day-to-day work. You'll have the training, support, and freedom to use AI responsibly and creatively to spark ideas, solve problems faster, and unlock new ways of working.

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!

The Role

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.
• Develop end-to-end solutions, writing clean and efficient code for front-end web applications and back-end services to deliver seamless user experiences.
• 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 discussions 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 with proficiency in front-end (e.g. Javascript, modern frameworks like React/Vue) and back-end (e.g. PHP, Golang) development.
• You have expertise in API design (REST & RPC) and its frameworks. Including using protobuf, gRPC, OpenAPI
• Experience building service-oriented architecture, microservices, and modern techniques and tools. Including using Docker, ECS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, etc
• Experience in a few persistence, storage and caching mechanisms. Including MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, etc
• Experience implementing responsive designs into software by developing reusable components with JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• 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.