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 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
- Digest & interpret 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.
Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of experience in software development and 2+ years of experience as a senior engineer.
- 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.
- Experience with various CI/CD platforms & build tools, we use Jenkins, Github actions, CircleCI, Makefiles.
- 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
- 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 & LearnsDeputy 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. #LI-HybridApply for this job
