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Deputy

Engineering Manager

Deputy

Software Engineering Manager leading a high-performing engineering team at Deputy, a global SaaS workforce management company. Driving innovation and mentoring engineers for optimal performance.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeSydney • 🇦🇺 AustraliaJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudGoKafkaKubernetesMySQLPHPPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Reporting to the Senior Manager of Engineering, your key responsibilities will be to direct a team of dedicated engineers of varied experience levels.
  • Engineering innovation is the fuel that powers Deputy. As a Software Engineering Manager, your mission is to take our high-performing team to new heights, building a world-class engineering team.
  • As we are a growth company, you’ll have a strong bias to innovation, growth and adapting to change.
  • You’ll be a technical mentor and people coach to a team of software engineers, unleashing and inspiring our teams to solve real-world problems with innovative, elegant solutions with balanced tradeoffs.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • You have 2+ years of software engineering management experience building productive, high functioning teams. You can describe why these teams were high functioning and what you specifically did to ensure engineers felt productive.
  • Technical acumen. Ability to converse deeply with engineers and technical executives
  • Experience in a fast growing scale-up environment, with a bias to innovation and growth. Bonus points for a multi-tenant SaaS org.
  • 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.
  • 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

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Enjoy a flexible work policy (with a work-from-home stipend to set you up for success!)
  • Own A piece of Deputy via our Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP)
  • Take paid parental leave to support you and your family
  • Stay protected with Group Salary Continuance Insurance
  • Access support through our Employee Assistance Program
  • Enjoy additional leave days — including study assistance, celebration days and volunteering
  • Join our global working groups focused on collaboration, belonging and connection
  • Get creative at our annual Hackathons
  • Take advantage of our novated leasing for electric vehicles, internet reimbursement and more!

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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineering managementcloud native applicationsAWSMySQLno-SQLKubernetescontainerisationKafkaPHPGolang
Soft Skills
technical mentorpeople coachgrowth mindsethumbitioushigh agency mindsetinnovationadaptabilityproblem solvingteam buildingcommunication