Engineering Manager at Deputy

At Deputy, we are dedicated to helping businesses create thriving workplaces where staff feel engaged, customers receive excellent service, and companies remain both compliant and profitable. With a presence in over 100 countries and support for more than 330,000 workplaces, we have established ourselves as a global leader in SaaS workforce management. Headquartered across Sydney, San Francisco, and London, we have recently surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue. Our mission is to empower 80% of the global workforce, one shift at a time. We believe that diverse perspectives are the foundation of our innovation, and we are actively building a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.

Key outcomes

• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of 10 or more software engineers to ensure they perform at their best while fostering a collaborative and learning-oriented culture.
• Collaborate with product managers and technical leads to define the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for your squads.
• Maintain a strong technical presence by contributing to code, writing architecture designs, and guiding the team through complex trade-offs and long-term architectural decisions.
• Drive the scalability and reliability of our platform, ensuring we leverage best-in-class technologies and design practices.
• Manage the recruitment process to build a sustainable, diverse, and world-class engineering team.
• Take ownership of team engagement scores and ensure clear communication regarding business goals and company vision.
• Oversee technical decision-making and architecture across your portfolio, including managing legacy code migrations and domain-specific technical expertise.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in software engineering management, with a proven track record of building and maintaining high-functioning, productive teams.
• Strong technical acumen with the ability to engage in deep discussions with engineers and technical leadership.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth scale-up environment, ideally within a multi-tenant SaaS organization.
• A high-agency mindset, characterized by a proactive approach to overcoming challenges and achieving goals.
• Demonstrated expertise in building distributed, cloud-native applications and services.
• Proficiency with AWS, including multi-region and multi-tenant architectures.
• Experience with system architecture patterns such as microservices, SOA, and event-driven architecture.
• Practical knowledge of cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes, containerization, and Kafka.
• Experience with programming languages such as PHP, Golang, Python, and infrastructure tools like Terraform.
• Familiarity with operating large-scale multi-tenant storage deployments, including MySQL and various NoSQL databases.
• Fluency in English.

Compensation

We offer a competitive package designed to support your professional and personal well-being. Benefits include:

• Equity compensation through share options.
• Comprehensive maternity and paternity leave policies.
• A flexible, hybrid work environment.
• Dedicated budgets for professional development and mental wellness.

How to apply

If you are passionate about technology and eager to help shape the future of hourly employment, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your application to join our team and help us continue our mission of empowering the global workforce.