Whom we are looking for

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 Intermediate Backend Engineer roles

Being the heartbeat of our engineering team, we are seeking a number of Fullstack and Backend Developers role who will be developing product features and collaborating with colleagues in design, product and engineering while taking ownership of writing automated tests for your production codes. You will be honing essentials tech stacks such as Ruby on Rails and ReactJS with our cutting-edge technologies and dabble in a wide array of products and features.

Responsibilities:

As a growing team, we need innovative and passionate Intermediate Backend Developers who will:

• Develop new product lines with new critical features, using our techstack which includes Ruby on Rails, NodeJS within an AWS Cloud environment using EC2 and Kubernetes

• Provide your input into our technical strategy with your squad, including participate in sprint planning

• Develop code for backend environments as an end-to-end backend developer,

• Ensure both your colleagues and yourself are producing high quality code through testing and code reviews

• Share your knowledge with your squad and mentor junior developers

• Collaborate with highly respected Senior Fullstack/Backend Developers, in a high performing and supportive squad

• Show your passion for working in highly complex and technically challenging development

• Enhance legacy features for our award-winning HR tech platform

It would be great if you have (nice to have)

• Experienced or willing to learn the Ruby programming language (we are open for candidates with any working experience of coding language who are willing to learn our technical stacks)

• Experience with microservices architecture, Kubernetes, and Amazon AWS.

• History of collaboration with teammates, mentorship, or technical leadership.