Software Engineering Manager - Platform, Application Architecture

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 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 or remote environment at Deputy. We do have an office in Melbourne, should you wish to use it.
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 to the Director of Engineering, your key responsibilities will be to direct a team of dedicated engineers of varied experience levels.
The platform team looks after various system services, golden paths, cloud infrastructure and design patterns used by the wider product & engineering teams within Deputy. Your role will be to ensure the continuity, delivery and business alignment of the team's roadmap.
Enabling your team as an inspiring Technical Manager, co-create the technical vision, strategy and technical roadmap planning and product definition for your team, alongside your technical leads and product managers/product designer.
You are a player coach who can roll up your sleeves and be hands on to help the team achieve their goals.
What you'll do:

• 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, running agile ceremonies, helping people with self-organising skills, facilitating workshops
• Work with your peers to improve the platform organisation and generate value to the rest of the company.
• Work closely with account and technical teams of our core vendors like AWS, Datadog, etc

Drive high performance:

• 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

Technical leadership:

• Become intimately familiar with our product, systems, and our tech stack to drive decisions about frameworks, architecture and decisions
• Drive adoption of best practices and best in class technology, design best practices, enforce principles of work
• Remove single point of failures by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
• Experience with working on legacy codebase and migrating to newer architecture including data migration
• Developing subject matter technical expert in the domain you own
• Responsible for the technical decision making and architecture across portfolio of squads
• Accountability for 2-3 OKRs aligned to Company goals
• Can clearly design and communicate a technical roadmap to the organisation with proof of value.

Who you are:

• 2+ years of engineering management experience building highly performing, self-managing 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.

Techie in you:

• Experience building distributed web based cloud native applications and services.
• Experience in various cloud computing/architecture - AWS with Multi-region, multi-tenant experience
• Experience in deploying highly scalable systems with various techniques and design patterns
• Experience in the operations of large multi tenant storage deployments (we use MySQL & various no-SQL)
• Experience in system architecture patterns like SOA, micro services, EDA (event driven architecture)
• Experience in key cloud native technologies like Kubernetes (EKS), containerisation, Kafka, etc
• Programming Languages - PHP, Golang, Terraform, Python

Employee 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
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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.