Senior Software Engineer in Manchester

Deputy is a global SaaS remote-first 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!

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work closely with peers across engineering, product, design and leadership to build high-quality products and features for the Deputy platform, delivering services to millions of users and businesses ranging from small and medium organisations to enterprise customers. This role can be worked predominantly remotely, however, you must be able to attend the office when required and support site visits as part of the role.

• Working independently to solve complex, highly ambiguous customer facing problems.
• Scope, specify, design, implement and deliver software solutions, applying modern industry best practices to deliver resilient, high performance, high-quality, and scalable systems and applications.
• Own the quality of your work by thoroughly testing your solutions, including writing automated tests.
• Collaborate with the engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to determine requirements and deliver complex problems.
• Write simple, efficient, self-documented modular high-quality code that follows best practices.
• Investigate debug and solve issues within a bounded context.
• Provide coaching to junior team members across the entire SDLC.
• Engage in technical discussion of solutions and process improvement through documentation, design reviews, pair programming, code review and technology discussions.

About you

• You are a skilful engineer with high standards and a passion for quality backed by 3+ years of related work experience.
• You are customer obsessed, always working to deliver solutions that give the best possible experience for customers.
• You show a bias for action, and have a demonstrated track record of delivering high quality, scalable, and fault tolerant software systems.
• You have strong computer science fundamentals: algorithms and data structures.
• You are programming language agnostic, but have some experience in Golang, PHP, Javascript.
• You have expertise in API design (REST & RPC) and its frameworks, including using protobuf, gRPC, OpenAPI.
• Experience with building service oriented architecture, microservices, and modern techniques and tools around it, including using Docker, ECS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, etc.
• Experience in a few persistence, storage and caching mechanisms, including MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, etc.
• You have experience embedding 3rd party software solutions into other platforms, providing a seamless experience for users.
• You build systems that include appropriate monitoring and observability; employing modern best practices for fault tolerance.

Employee Perks

• Enjoy a flexible and hybrid work policy, with a dedicated office 1 minute walk from Farringdon Station.
• Own a piece of Deputy through our Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP).
• Work from home stipend to help you get set up and succeed from home.
• Benefit from our employee pension matching programme.
• Access private health and dental insurance.
• Take paid parental leave to support you and your family.
• Enjoy additional leave days — including study assistance, celebration days and volunteering.
• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays.
• Feel secure with our income protection scheme for long-term absence due to illness or injury.
• Get involved with our global working groups; designed for collaboration, belonging and connection.
• Connect over weekly office lunches, social gatherings and industry events.

Deputy believes in equal opportunity and that inclusiveness and diversity promotes innovation. Our global team members are from a variety of cultures. And we welcome different perspectives and skills.