Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Employment Hero as a Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer and contribute to the reliability, scalability, and performance of our platform. You will lead initiatives to design, implement, and maintain robust infrastructure and systems, driving continuous improvement and innovation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize our technology stack, minimize downtime, and enhance user experience. Play a vital role in accelerating our product strategy by developing and maintaining applications using Ruby, analyzing systems for improvement, collaborating with product and architecture teams, contributing to technical strategy, ensuring high-quality code, and collaborating with other engineers. You will work on highly complex and technically challenging development projects and enhance features for our award-winning HR tech platform. Employment Hero offers a remote-first work environment with flexibility, cutting-edge tools, ambitious colleagues, ESOPs, and a wide range of benefits.

Requirements

• You are a highly skilled, senior-level Software Development Engineer (our Senior Engineers typically have 6+ years of experience in Software Development, but we grade based on technical expertise over years of experience)
• In previous roles, you’ve focused on Server-side and RESTful API Development and integration
• Proficiency in Ruby programming language and Ruby frameworks such as Rails or Sinatra
• You have proven experience implementing, maintaining and deploying full-stack web technologies
• You have a strong understanding of best practice 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 have good verbal and written English skills
• You’re passionate about learning, sharing your knowledge, and mentoring team mates

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain multiple applications using Ruby
• Analyse current systems to find areas of improvement for security, reliability and performance
• Collaborate with product and architecture teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Contribute to the technical strategy of engineering
• Ensure high-quality code by conducting testing and code reviews, both for yourself and your colleagues
• 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 features for our award-winning HR tech platform

Benefits

• You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
• You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs
• You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
• You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies
• You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes - a very generous paternity leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities