Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Employment Hero, a fast-growing SaaS unicorn, as a Senior Backend Software Development Engineer. You will be a vital part of our engineering team, developing product features and collaborating with colleagues across different departments. This role involves developing and maintaining both frontend and backend components using Ruby and ReactJS, contributing to technical strategy, ensuring high-quality code through testing and code reviews, and mentoring junior developers. You will work on a diverse range of products and features, enhancing legacy features for our award-winning HR tech platform. The ideal candidate possesses over 6 years of software development experience, strong OOP skills, and a passion for working on complex projects. Employment Hero offers a remote-first work environment and numerous benefits.

Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience in Software Development, with a focus on Server-side and RESTful API Development and integration
• 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
• English language abilities, both written and verbal - you’ll be working with people across the world, including from Australia

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain both frontend and backend components of web applications using Ruby and ReactJS
• Collaborate with product team to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Contribute to the technical strategy and delivery of your squad and take part in scrum ceremonies
• Ensure high-quality code by conducting testing and code reviews, both for yourself and your colleagues
• Share your knowledge and mentor Junior Developers within your squad
• Collaborate with highly respected Software Development Engineers in a high performing and supportive environment
• Demonstrate your passion for working on highly complex and technically challenging development projects
• Enhance legacy features for our award-winning HR tech platform

Preferred Qualifications

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

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