Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Deputy, a global SaaS workforce management company, as a Software Engineer. You will collaborate with a team to build and improve products used by millions. This role requires strong problem-solving skills, experience with various technologies, and a passion for quality. You will work independently and collaboratively, contributing to the development of scalable and high-performance systems. The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant impact on a global platform. Deputy values diversity and inclusion, fostering a welcoming environment for team members from various backgrounds.

Requirements

• Be a skilful engineer with high standards and a passion for quality backed by 3+ years of related work experience
• Be customer obsessed, always working to deliver solutions that give the best possible experience for customers
• Show a bias for action, and have a demonstrated track record of delivering high quality, scalable, and fault tolerant software systems
• Have strong computer science fundamentals: algorithms and data structures
• Be programming language agnostic, but have some experience in Golang, PHP, Javascript
• Have expertise in API design (REST & RPC) and its frameworks. Including using protobuf, gRPC, OpenAPI
• Have experience with building service oriented architecture, microservices, and modern techniques and tools around it. Including using Docker, ECS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, etc
• Have experience in a few persistence, storage and caching mechanisms. Including MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, etc
• Have experience embedding 3rd party software solutions into other platforms, providing a seamless experience for users
• 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

Responsibilities

• Work 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

Benefits

• $108,000 - $121,500 a year
• Potential incentive programs, such as individual or organizational performance bonuses
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