Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead

Summary

Join Employment Hero, a rapidly growing company with a $2 billion valuation, as a Senior Software Engineer. You will be a key member of a new fintech product squad, building backend systems for financial automation workflows related to payroll. This role demands expertise in backend architecture, system design, and cloud-native environments. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, ensuring the product meets high standards of security, performance, and reliability. The position offers a remote-first work environment, cutting-edge tools, and opportunities for professional development. Employment Hero values a strong engineering culture and provides a generous benefits package.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a Senior Backend Engineer, including delivering complex systems in fintech, payments, banking, or compliance-sensitive domains
• Strong capabilities in backend architecture, system design, and simplifying complex requirements into scalable solutions
• Comfort working in cloud-native environments, ideally AWS
• Proficiency in one or more modern backend languages such as Ruby, Go, Java, Node, or Python
• Ownership mindset and confidence in debugging and maintaining systems in production
• Clear communication and async collaboration skills, especially when working across distributed teams and time zones

Responsibilities

• Designing and building backend systems that power financial automation workflows for payroll-related use cases
• Translating business and compliance requirements into reliable, secure engineering solutions
• Owning the design and implementation of distributed systems, internal APIs, and key integrations
• Collaborating with stakeholders from product, engineering, and compliance to balance innovation with regulatory standards
• Championing technical quality and maintainability through best practices, documentation, and knowledge sharing
• Helping shape a strong, remote-first engineering culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with payroll systems, payment gateways, or integrations with financial institutions
• Familiarity with security standards, AML/KYC practices, or working with external compliance partners
• Experience launching greenfield products or being an early engineer in a new team

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