Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Employment Hero is an Australian tech unicorn - valued at over $2 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 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/intermediate members of the squad