Full Stack Engineer

Deputy is a global SaaS remote-first 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.

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!

In this role as a back-end focused Fullstack 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.

In this role you'll work with out integrations team working between Deputy and partners (Payroll, POS, HR etc.) on some exciting new initiatives such as embedded Payroll product.

Please note, while this role is remote, candidates the successful candidate will be required to be based in or relocate to British Columbia for the duration of the role.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and deliver software solutions for product features - with consideration to high performance, high-quality systems and applications using modern industry best practices.
• Write code for both the front end web application and backend services (though the focus will be weighted to the backend).
• Ensure the quality of your work through comprehensive testing, including writing automated tests. Aim for high test coverage and proactively address security and performance concerns..
• Work independently to gather requirements for ambiguous problems, and collaborate with the appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements for semi well-defined problems
• Write simple, efficient, self-documented modular high-quality code that follows best practices and improves the overall codebase. Apply advanced knowledge of programming languages and frameworks used in your domain.
• Investigate debug and solve issues within a broader context.
• Engage confidently in technical discussions, contributing to decision-making sessions and influencing the team with your expertise. Contribute to process improvement through documentation, design reviews, pair programming, code review and discussions

Skills & Experience

• You are a skilful engineer with high standards and a passion for quality backed by 3+ years of related work experience.
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals: algorithms and data structures, with the ability to understand when to apply them to complex problems.
• Experience implementing responsive designs into software by developing reusable components with JavaScript, HTML and CSS. 
• Proficiency in a tech stack that includes backend technologies (tech agnostic but we use PHP/Golang) and JavaScript libraries/frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular. Advanced knowledge of CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience in working with various APIs, understanding how systems and microservices integrate with each other.

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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