Junior Backend Software Engineer
Employment Hero, Vietnam
Job Description
Employment Hero is an Australian tech unicorn - valued at over $1.25 billion. Our world-class software is the easiest way for small and medium-sized businesses to manage HR, payroll, employee engagement, and benefits. We’ve grown 100% year-on-year since our inception in 2014, and now service over 200,000 businesses and over 1 Million + active users globally. We have exciting growth plans for 2023 and beyond, powered by our mission of making employment easier and more valuable for everyone.
We take a Remote First approach with our team. Employment Hero can hire across the world, so long as candidates have eligible working rights and are in a suitable timezone for their colleagues. If you’ve got the skills for the role and the passion for our mission then we want to hear from you!
We have multiple Junior Software Engineer opportunities!
Employment Hero’s Software Development team are growing lightning fast. We’re looking for driven, ambitious and innovative Software Developers to join our team and help us build the next generation of Human Resource and Employee Lifecycle Management systems.
In this role, you will help us to create new products and continuously enhance existing products and features, where you’ll get to use unique and new technologies. You will use your experience to help design and architect complex software, for consumption by millions of users around the world.
You have a flexible / growth mindset, with a strong desire to continuously learn - our software roles require you to be able to work autonomously as well as a member of a team.
You'll accelerate your career quickly, working with smart people across the APAC and UK regions, in a fully remote, flexible, and casual environment. We also encourage our teams to work smart, leveraging Github Copilot and other generative AI tech.
We have multiple opportunities where you could work dynamically across our Talent, HR, Platform, Security, Integrations, Growth, AI or other streams/squads.
As our Junior Software Development Engineer, your day could include:
- Developing new product lines with new critical features, using our techstack which includes Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, React Native within an AWS Cloud environment using EC2 and Kubernetes
- Provide your input into our technical strategy with your squad, including participate in sprint planning
- Develop code for the frontend, mobile and backends environments as an end-to-end fullstack developer,
- Ensure both your colleagues and yourself are producing high quality code through testing and code reviews
- Share your knowledge with your squad and mentor junior developers
- Learn and collaborate with highly respected Senior Fullstack Developers, in a high performing and supportive squad
- Show your passion for working in highly complex and technically challenging development
- Enhance legacy features for our award-winning HR tech platform
To be a success in this role you'll have:
- Exposure to Backend Software Development, Server-side and API Development (GraphQL), particularly with scripting languages like Ruby on Rails, Python, Scala, PHP etc
- High-level Object Oriented Programming (OOP) skills
- Demonstrated experience implementing, maintaining and deploying full-stack web technologies
- Experience in translating design wireframes into functioning UI components
- Strong English communication skills (both verbal amp; written)
- 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
Nice to have skills/experiences (but not required to be considered):
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science of Software Engineering or an equivalent
- Frontend software development experience with ReactJS and/or React Native or a similar Javascript/Typescript based framework like AngularJS
- Experience in developing highly modular mobile applications and mobile application performance tuning
- Experience with AWS tooling and environments, EC2, Kubernetes etc
Some of the benefits of working with Employment Hero include:
- Self, health, wealth, and happiness programs
- Remote-first and flexible working arrangements
- A generous budget to spend on setting up your home office (if you need a desk, chair, or screen? We’ve got you covered!)
- We set you up for success with the latest and greate