Principal Software 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 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
• 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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