Deputy
SaaS workforce management
EngineeringManager
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“Engineering Manager at Deputy. Skills: software engineering management, technical leadership, architectural decision making, people leadership, AI tools and thinking. writing code and contributing as an individual contributor. Co-create the technical vision, strategy and technical roadmap planning and product definition for your team”
What You'll Achieve.
improving the world of work, one shift at a time; businesses use Deputy, their workplaces thrive – the business is more profitable, compliant, and productive, while the workers are more engaged and happier at work; Accountability for 2-3 OKRs aligned to Company goals; make an impact where it matters most
Industry & Context.
solve problems faster; balancing trade-offs
AI-native company commitment
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2+ years of software engineering management experience building productive, high functioning teams, Experience building distributed web based cloud native applications and services, Experience in various cloud computing/architecture - AWS with Multi-region, multi-tenant experience, Experience in deploying highly scalable systems with various techniques and design patterns, Experience in the operations of large multi tenant storage deployments (we use MySQL & various no-SQL), Experience in system architecture patterns like SOA, micro services, EDA (event driven architecture), Experience in key cloud native technologies like Kubernetes (EKS), containerisation, Kafka, etc, Programming Languages - PHP, Golang, Terraform, Python
Nice to Have
multi-tenant SaaS org experience
What You'll Do.
writing code and contributing as an individual contributor
Co-create the technical vision
strategy and technical roadmap planning and product definition for your team
Become intimately familiar with our product
and our tech stack to drive decisions about frameworks
architecture and decisions
guide the team to building innovative
elegant solutions by balancing trade-offs with the best interests of the company
Guide the team on important architectural and long-term engineering decisions
as well as shorter-term tradeoffs
Stay technical to provide meaningful guidance on engineering decisions
Drive the scalability and reliability of your squads offering
writing architecture designs
working with infrastructure and quality on tooling for your team
and guide a team of software engineers
Lead the recruiting of new engineers within your team
Own the Engineering Team Engagement score
Provide one on one feedback
career advice and coaching for your team members
Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team
Mentor team members to create a highly motivated
and cohesive culture which rewards high performance
Drive adoption of best practices and best in class technology
design best practices
enforce principles of work
Remove single point of failures by cross-skilling staff and making sensible
strategic resourcing decisions
Experience with working on legacy codebase and migrating to newer architecture including data migration
Developing subject matter technical expert in the domain you own
Responsible for the technical decision making and architecture across portfolio of squads
Accountability for 2-3 OKRs aligned to Company goals
Can clearly design and communicate a technical roadmap to the organisation with proof of value
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Co-create the technical vision, strategy and technical roadmap planning and product definition for your team, alongside your technical leads and PM/product designer; working with infrastructure and quality on tooling for your team; building upon our interactive, learning-oriented engineering community; Join our global working groups focused on collaboration, belonging and connection
Communication Scope
Communicate openly; Can clearly design and communicate a technical roadmap to the organisation
Process & Methodology
roadmap planning, product definition, OKRs
Full Job Description
## Description Deputy is a global SaaS workforce management company with hubs in Sydney, Melbourne, San Francisco and London, plus team members working remotely across the United States. Our platform serves over 1.5 million workers and 375,000 workplaces across 100+ countries. We are backed by top global investors and recently achieved Unicorn status. At Deputy, we’re improving the world of work, one shift at a time, for 80% of the world’s workforce: hourly workers. These are the dedicated employees who keep our world running – from baristas to nurses, cleaners to delivery drivers, florists to factory workers. Despite their vital role in society, most workplace technology has focused on those workers who sit behind a desk, but at Deputy, we transform the frontline. When businesses use Deputy, their workplaces thrive – the business is more profitable, compliant, and productive, while the workers are more engaged and happier at work. We're becoming an AI-native company, a commitment that means you'll be empowered (and expected) to use AI tools and thinking in your day-to-day work. You'll have the training, support, and freedom to use AI responsibly and creatively to spark ideas, solve problems faster, and unlock new ways of working. If you’re passionate about creating solutions that put people first and helping businesses and their teams thrive, join us at Deputy and make an impact where it matters most! ## Responsibilities Inspiring Technical Manager This is a highly technical role. You will be expected to lead from a place of understanding and to do so you will develop an intimate understanding of the underlying technical architecture as well as contributing to the future direction of the platform. Your first months will see you writing code and contributing as an individual contributor. Co-create the technical vision, strategy and technical roadmap planning and product definition for your team, alongside your technical leads and PM/product designer Become in
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