Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Deputy, a global SaaS remote-first workforce management company, as a Principal Engineer (Backend) and play a key role in advancing our mission of improving the world of work. You will make strategic technical decisions, collaborate with various teams, build outstanding products, and deliver services to millions of users. This role involves defining long-term technical direction, promoting innovation, serving as a technical authority, and driving standards. You will collaborate cross-functionally, drive discussions on new solutions, and ensure high-quality solutions and practices. The position requires significant experience in software development and leadership, deep SaaS experience, and excellent communication and collaboration skills. Deputy offers various employee perks, including share options, parental leave policies, flexible remote work, development opportunities, and social events.

Requirements

• 10+ years in software development including significant time in a leadership or principal role
• Deep SaaS experience across multiple domains or problem spaces
• Have created a multi-year technical vision and seen it through to fruition through the deployment of solid communication skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and contribute to architectural decision-making
• Demonstrated ability to introduce new technologies or practices to a large engineering function and ensure successful take-up through advocacy, education and governance
• Possess excellent problem-solving skills, and have used these to have an outsized impact on a technical project
• Proven ability to shape architectural strategies and drive technical innovation
• Execute on strategic direction including shifts in technology and paradigms
• Have built a deep strength in at least one contemporary area of software technology, such but not limited to ML, search engines, or event-based architectures

Responsibilities

• Define, lead, and document the long-term technical direction that enables the engineering team's long-term scaling, aligned with our business goals
• Promote innovation, efficiency, scalability and a culture of excellence within the organization
• Serve as a technical authority, providing guidance and mentorship to our engineering teams
• Form a key member of the technical leadership team, driving standards, ways of working and platform decision-making at an organisational level
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Infrastructure, Platform Quality, Product and Design teams to ensure high-quality solutions and practices are employed
• Drive discussions on new solutions, architectural choices, and emerging technologies that enable operational scalability and enhance the developer experience
• Ensure that our technical decisions uphold the highest standards of quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security
• Advocate for and implement advanced testing methodologies and CI/CD practices

Benefits

• 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