This is a Software Engineer III - Backend role with one of the leading companies in AU right now Deputy with an amazing team. They are continuing to grow rapidly. This is the chance to join right as the takes off. More About the Role at Deputy 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 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. - 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 discussion 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, but have some experience in Golang, PHP, Javascript. - You have expertise in API design (REST & RPC) and its frameworks. Including using protobuf, gRPC, OpenAPI - Experience with building service oriented architecture, microservices, and modern techniques and tools around it. Including using Docker, ECS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, etc - Experience in a few persistence, storage and caching mechanisms. Including MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, etc - 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. 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 If you don’t think you're a perfect fit, you should still sign up to Hatch and create a profile, we'll match you to other roles that suit your profile. Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that’s right for them. We model this in our hiring process for our partners like Deputy. ✅ Applying here is the first step in the hiring process for this role at Deputy. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, cultural identity, disability, age, or any other non-merit factors. To put it simply, Hatch is for everyone.