Principal Backend Engineer (Fully remote)

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 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 to their colleagues. If you’ve got the skills for the role and the passion for our mission then we want to hear from you!

Employment Hero celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences, we invite people of all backgrounds and identities to apply for this position.

About our Backend Software Engineering job

As a member of a product engineering team, you'll work closely with product owners, designers, and other engineers in other stacks to solve customer pain points. As a member of the backend team, you'll be responsible for system architecture, and writing code, API's and business logic.

Responsibilities
 

We have some high technical standards - are you up for the challenge?:

• Your architecture must be well-designed and thoughtful. Our system is complicated, but modern, and require a high level of architecture design to ensure hundreds of engineers can work together with confidence, and hundreds of features are delivered at the highest quality.
• Your code must be elegant, clean, and fast.
• Your deployment must pass a series of automatic tests and metrical checks.
• Our observability system and bot army help you responsible for any bugs, data integrity, and performance issues after.
• We know achieving all of this is hard, but don't worry, we have an excellent environment for you to learn, grow and share with other amazing engineers. Moreover, as a part of the engineering team, you'll become a leader, where you'll help build the technical foundations of our practices, and grow our engineering culture.