At Deputy we’re on a mission to change the way the world works & we are looking for fantastic people to help us do that. Our mission is to simplify shift work, with a future state vision to enable thriving workplaces in every community.

Deputy is a SaaS Workforce Management Product company. HQ'd in Sydney (AU), with offices also in Melbourne, London (UK), Atlanta and San Francisco (USA). We’ve helped hundreds of thousands of people across all industries in 70 countries save time and money managing their hourly workforce so they can focus on what they do best, and be amazing.

We have a hybrid working environment. #LI-Remote #LI-Hybrid

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Deputy, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

About your role

Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, your key responsibilities will be to direct a team of dedicated engineers, Engineering Manager and Technical Lead of varied experience levels. 

Own the design and architecture of your Product domain consisting of multiple squads which will deliver services & products to millions of users and businesses across the globe from small, medium to enterprise customers.

Enabling your team:

• Inspiring Technical Manager, Co-create the technical vision, strategy and technical roadmap planning and product definition for your team, alongside your technical leads and PM/product designer
• Work with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issues
• Act as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as needed
• Maintain high quality standards for yourself and software engineering practices of your team
• Work with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goals
• Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capability
• Assist the team in a hands-on capacity as required

• Bias towards value creation: 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.
• 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, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
• Lead the recruiting of new engineers within your team as we grow and build a world-class, sustainable and diverse engineering team.
• Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance
• Own the Engineering Team Engagement score (quarterly measure of team engagement), by building upon our interactive, learning-oriented engineering community

• Become intimately familiar with our product, languages, and our tech stack to drive decisions about frameworks, architecture and decisions
• Drive adoption of best practice and best in class technology, Design best practices, enforce principles of work
• Remove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
• Subject matter technical expert
• Responsible for the technical decision making and architecture across portfolio of squads
• Accountability for 3-5 OKRs aligned to Company goals
• Can clearly design and communicate a technical roadmap to the organisation with proof of value.
• Engineering Capability - Ensuring teams are operating effectively within the guardrails, evolving new technologies, design patterns, auditability, ISO/SOC certifications. 

• 5 years of engineering management experience building high performance, autonomous teams.
• Bias to action and effecting organisational change
• Influential with engineering leadership and the engineer community
• Ability to handle competing priorities
• Growth mindset. We are an early stage company that hasn’t figured it all out yet!
• Humbitious. We are ambitious to aim to make a significant global impact, and build a generational company, while humble enough to know it’ll take lots of hard work, learning from mistakes, and great people
• High agency mindset. High Agency is about finding a way to get what you want, without waiting for conditions to be perfect or otherwise blaming the circumstances. High Agency people either “find a way” in the face of adverse conditions or navigate to reverse the adverse conditions to achieve goals.
• Passion for technology. A nerd at heart, you know the massive leverage and exponential ability innovative technical solutions can have in making an impact in the world.
• Commercial and business acumen is nice to have

• Experience in Cloud computing/architecture - AWS with Multi-region, multi-tenant experience
• Web Technologies - HTML5, Javascript - Vuejs/Reactjs, Typescript
• Programming Languages - PHP, Python, Golang
• Test Automation tools - eg. Selenium, Cypress, Locust, Cucumber, etc
• CI/CD tools - Jenkins, Circle CI, Containers - EKS, ECS, Docker, etc

Why join? 🤔

- Australian Hyper-Growth Startup - Head Office in Sydney

- Why IVP Invested in Deputy

- Deloitte's #21 Fastest Growing Technology Startups in Aus 2018

- Raised $111M Series B Round led by IVP, OpenView (our Series A investor), Square Peg Capital and EVP.

- Global Growth across APAC, America and EMEA.

Perks 🙌

- Share Options

- Paternity/Maternity Leave Policies

- Personal Learning & Development Fund

- Flexible Work Policy

- Company wide Development & Coaching

- Hackathons

- Awards - "Your Time to Shine & Celebrate Success"

- Social Events & variety of social clubs (Books, LGBT, Games, Sports)

- Mental Health Support

- Munch & Learns

Our mission 🚀

At Deputy we’re on a mission to change the way the world works. Since 2008 over 200 million shifts have been rostered on Deputy, in over 90 countries, and across 245 different industries.

We’re making it easier for businesses and teams to roster staff, manage leave, complete payroll and take the admin out of work so that our customers can focus on doing what they love. We hire amazing people to do what they’re best at, and work with some incredible businesses all around the world.

Check out this video: Deputy Explained

Check out why our customers love us: GetApp and G2Crowd. 

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 perspective and skills. 

Interested? Apply now