Software Engineer - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

The Role

As a Software Engineer, you will be working closely with your peers, product, design and leadership to build amazing products and features for the Deputy platform, delivering services and products to millions of users and businesses from small & medium to enterprise.

Responsibilities

• 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.

• Develop end-to-end solutions, writing clean and efficient code for front-end web applications and back-end services to deliver seamless user experiences.

• 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 discussions of solutions and process improvement through documentation, design reviews, pair programming, code review and technology discussions.

Skills & Experience

• 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 with proficiency in front-end (e.g. Javascript, modern frameworks like React/Vue) and back-end (e.g. PHP, Golang) development.

• You have expertise in API design (REST & RPC) and its frameworks. Including using protobuf, gRPC, OpenAPI

• Experience building service-oriented architecture, microservices, and modern techniques and tools. Including using Docker, ECS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, etc

• Experience in a few persistence, storage and caching mechanisms. Including MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, S3, etc

• Experience implementing responsive designs into software by developing reusable components with JavaScript, HTML and CSS

• 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, including but not limited to caching, eventual consistency, queues, load balancing, circuit breaking, etc.