Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

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!

As a Senior Software Engineer (Front End) in our HR Squad, you will leverage your experience to make a meaningful impact on initiatives and influence your peers. You will drive quality outcomes for our customers by combining strategic thinking and problem-solving skills to identify problems, research and tackle complex challenges, and lead the solution design and development of key projects that advance our mission and align with our broader engineering goals.

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 with the confidence that your work, from user-facing experiences to backend APIs, powers and improves the livelihood of millions of users worldwide.

• Own the design and delivery of software solutions for product features - with consideration to high-performance, high-quality systems and applications using modern industry best practices.
• Engage in project estimation and task breakdown of complex projects, proactively identify risk and raise issues to ensure alignment with goals and delivery dates.
• Collaborate with the appropriate stakeholders to refine the acceptance criteria given loosely defined requirements.
• Drive technical discussion of solutions and process improvement through documentation, design reviews, pair programming, code review and technology discussions.
• Solve large complex problems by writing simple, efficient, self-documented, modular, high-quality code that follows best practices.
• Own the quality of your work by thoroughly testing your solutions, including writing automated tests.
• Mentor other team members and ensuring best practices and standards are consistently applied.

• You are a skilful engineer with high standards, passion for quality and 5+ years of experience delivering quality software.
• Solid computer science fundamentals: algorithms and data structures.
• Experience implementing responsive designs into software by developing reusable components with JavaScript, HTML and CSS 
• Experience with JavaScript libraries/frameworks such as jQuery, Backbone, React, Vue or Angular.
• Experience utilising various APIs and handling large datasets.
• Thoughtful approach to leading and mentoring other engineers. Ability to lead by example, rolling up your sleeves to “show the way”
• Collaborative approach to working with other teams.
• Proactive and effective communication style.

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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