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 70+ countries worldwide, serving more than 320,000 workplaces.
Deputy is a global SaaS workforce management company headquartered in Sydney, San Francisco, and London, backed by top investors and recently surpassed 100m ARR. We've helped millions of workers across industries and aim to empower 60% 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!
You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. 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.
About your role
Reporting to the Director of Engineering, your key responsibilities will be to direct a team of dedicated engineers of varied experience levels.
The platform team looks after various system services, golden paths, cloud infrastructure and design patterns used by the wider product & engineering teams within Deputy. Your role will be to ensure the continuity, delivery and business alignment of the team’s roadmap.
Enabling your team as an inspiring Technical Manager, co-create the technical vision, strategy and technical roadmap planning and product definition for your team, alongside your technical leads and product managers/product designer.
What you'll do:
Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issuesAct as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as neededMaintain high quality standards for yourself and software engineering practices of your teamWork with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goalsDrive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capabilityAssist the team in a hands-on capacity as required, running agile ceremonies, helping people with self-organising skills, facilitating workshopsWork with your peers to improve the platform organisation and generate value to the rest of the company.Work closely with account and technical teams of our core vendors like AWS, Datadog, etcDrive high performance:
Bias towards value creation: guide the team to building innovative, elegant solutions by balancing trade-offs with the best interests of the company. Guide the team on important architectural and long-term engineering decisions, as well as shorter-term tradeoffs. Stay technical to provide meaningful guidance on engineering decisions.Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team membersCommunicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goalsLead the recruiting of new engineers within your team as we grow and build a world-class, sustainable and diverse engineering team.Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performanceOwn the Engineering Team Engagement score (quarterly measure of team engagement), by building upon our interactive, learning-oriented engineering communityTechnical leadership:
Become intimately familiar with our product, systems, and our tech stack to drive decisions about frameworks, architecture and decisionsDrive adoption of best practices and best in class technology, design best practices, enforce principles of workRemove single point of failures by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisionsExperience with working on legacy codebase and migrating to newer architecture including data migrationDeveloping subject matter technical expert in the domain you ownResponsible for the technical decision making and architecture across portfolio of squadsAccountability for 2-3 OKRs aligned to Company goalsCan clearly design and communicate a technical roadmap to the organisation with proof of value.Who you are:
2+ years of engineering management experience building highly performing, self-managing autonomous teamsBias to action and effecting organisational changeInfluential with engineering leadership and the engineer communityAbility to handle competing prioritiesGrowth mindset. We are an early stage company that hasn’t figured it all out yet!Humbitious. We are ambitious to aim to make a significant global impact, and build a generational company, while humble enough to know it’ll take lots of hard work, learning from mistakes, and great peopleHigh agency mindset. High Agency is about finding a way to get what you want, without waiting for conditions to be perfect or otherwise blaming the circumstances. High Agency people either “find a way” in the face of adverse conditions or navigate to reverse the adverse conditions to achieve goals.Passion for technology. A nerd at heart, you know the massive leverage and exponential ability innovative technical solutions can have in making an impact in the world.Techie in you:
Experience building distributed web based cloud native applications and services.Experience in various cloud computing/architecture - AWS with Multi-region, multi-tenant experienceExperience in deploying highly scalable systems with various techniques and design patternsExperience in the operations of large multi tenant storage deployments (we use MySQL & various no-SQL)Experience in system architecture patterns like SOA, micro services, EDA (event driven architecture)Experience in key cloud native technologies like Kubernetes (EKS), containerisation, Kafka, etcProgramming Languages - PHP, Golang, Terraform, PythonEmployee Perks
- Share Options
- Paternity/Maternity Leave Policies
- Personal Learning & Development Fund
- Flexible 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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