Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer opportunities!
Employment Hero’s Software Development team are growing lightning fast. We’re looking for experienced, skilled 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 Senior Software Development Engineer, your day could include:
- End-to-end (Fullstack) development for new and current cloud-based applications, for both web and mobile use
- Work on the technology roadmap with Product Owners, designing solutions with your squad, and new feature development, through to production, improving/optimizing and maintenance
- Debug and perform root cause analysis for application issues
- Perform tests and quality checks on your code - you own the quality and security of the code you create
- Take initiative in recommending improvements to the development process
- Proactively identify application pain points and suggest mitigation strategies
- Perform peer reviews of code changes
- Maintain documentation and help articles for new/updated features
- Provide training sessions for the support team for new features
- Work closely with business stakeholders within an agile environment
- Mentoring junior members of the squad
To be successful in joining Employment Hero, you’ll have:
- Extensive experience as a Senior Software Development Engineer, particularly for a cloud-based SaaS
- Experience in at least one Object-oriented programming (OOP) scripting language, such as Ruby on Rails, Python, Scala or other scripting language
- Experience with Typescript, Javascript and JS based frameworks like React
- Experience in developing software, using microservices or SOA architecture for deployment on public clouds, preferably AWS
- Good understanding of database concepts and experience working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL.
- Experience using Agile methodologies and working with Product teams
- Quality coding practices, including test-driven development, unit testing and secure coding awareness
- English language abilities, both written and verbal - you’ll be working with people across the world, including from Australia
Nice to have skills and experience (if you have these you’ll really stand out!):
- Proficiency in Ruby programming language and Ruby frameworks such as Rails or Sinatra
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- Have experience in mentoring team mates, or even leading a squad
- Experience in functional programming.
- Familiarity with AWS tooling and environments, including 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