Intermediate Software Engineer

Summary

Join Employment Hero, a fast-growing SaaS unicorn, as a Backend Engineer. You will build and deploy innovative features for our Employment Operating System, collaborating with a global team. This role involves driving squad development, translating requirements into technical solutions, writing automated tests, and mentoring junior engineers. We require over 4 years of server-side and RESTful API development experience, proficiency in OOP languages, and strong software engineering skills. While a Computer Science degree is preferred, it's not essential. We offer a remote-first work environment, generous benefits, and a vibrant company culture.

Requirements

• Over 4 years of experience in Software Development, with a focus on Server-side and RESTful API Development and integration
• Proficiency in OOP languages such as Python, Java, PHP, etc., is highly desirable, with the expectation that you are willing to learn Ruby upon joining our team
• Demonstrated experience implementing, maintaining and deploying full-stack web technologies
• Strong skills in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Strong understanding of standard Software Engineering processes, Testing, and Agile methodology
• A team player that always puts colleagues ahead of yourself and has a highly adaptable and versatile approach to work
• You are passionate about learning and sharing your knowledge, and not afraid to challenge your peers, but also welcome being challenged
• You have experience in mentoring team mates, or even leading an Engineering squad
• English language abilities, both written and verbal - you’ll be working with people across the world, including from Australia

Responsibilities

• Drive your squad to develop critical features for our customers
• Collaborate closely with our global team of designers, product managers and UX specialists to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Write automated tests for your production codes
• Develop and maintain key components of web applications
• Conduct testing and code reviews for both yourself and your colleagues
• Mentor the Junior Engineers within your squad

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science of Software Engineering or an equivalent
• You have experience in mentoring team mates, or even leading an Engineering squad
• Experience in translating design wireframes into functioning UI components
• Experience in developing highly modular mobile applications and mobile application performance tuning
• Experience in functional programming
• Familiarity with AWS tooling and environments, including EC2, Kubernetes, etc

Benefits

• A generous budget for your home office
• Cutting-edge tools and technology
• 20 days Annual Leave, plus VN Public Holidays
• $500 USD for your professional development plan
• $500 USD for English learning courses
• Premium Healthcare Insurance Program for you and your loved ones, plus full gross salary paid social insurance
• Sports club funded by Employment Hero
• Monthly get-together event in the office for team bonding and VND 80,000 budget for lunch for day-in-office
• Reward and recognition programs - because great work should be recognised and rewarded
• Employee Share Option Program: be an owner of Employment Hero
• Annual Global Gathering - so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam, Bali and are excited to meet in Dubai in 2025