Senior Backend Engineer - NodeJS (Remote Full-time)

Top 3 reasons to join us

• Remote First & Flexible Working Time
• 20 Annual leave Days & 1 Leisure Rules Day
• Top Compensation & Healthcare Package

Job description

Our mission and where you fit in:

At Employment Hero, we’re an ambitious bunch of people on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone.

Our world-class software is the easiest way for businesses to manage HR, payroll, employee engagement, and benefits.

Since our inception in 2014, we've had some pretty impressive growth (100% YoY), reached unicorn status in 2022, and now serve 300,000 businesses globally, with 2 million+ users on the platform. We have no plans to slow down. 

There’s never been a more exciting time to join one of the fastest-growing SaaS unicorns, so let’s see if we could be a match!

In your role, you'll be focused on:

As a growing team, we need innovative and passionate Senior Backend Software Development Engineers to join our squads who will be a vital part of our engineering team, responsible for developing product features and collaborating with colleagues in design, product, and engineering. You will take ownership of writing automated tests for your production codes and work with cutting-edge technologies, focusing on tech stacks such as NodeJS, Ruby on Rails, .Net ReactJS, React Native, AWS. In addition, you will have the opportunity to work on a diverse range of products and features.

You will join our amazing eBenefits & Fintech Team. They are a fast-scaling team within Employment Hero. It's focus is on building products that improve employee engagement, through reward and recognition products, and employee perks and benefits, including our discount marketplace, and finance products, like InstaPay. We are building brand new products for our end users (B2C), which complement and enhance our already broad range of Human Resource SaaS products. We're in the thick of developing a SuperApp, which encompasses our current offerings, with some new and first of their kind products within the Fintech and Careers/Lifestyle space.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain both frontend and backend components of web applications using NodeJS, ReactJS, React Native (We are ready to open up the opportunity for you to learn ReactJS, React Native if you have no prior experience with it)
• Collaborate with product team to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Contribute to the technical strategy and delivery of your squad and take part in scrum ceremonies.
• Ensure high-quality code by conducting testing and code reviews, both for yourself and your colleagues.
• Share your knowledge and mentor other Software Engineers within your squad.
• Collaborate with highly respected Software Development Engineers in a high performing and supportive environment.
• Demonstrate your passion for working on highly complex and technically challenging development projects.
• Enhance legacy features for our award-winning HR tech platform.

Your skills and experience

You’re the hero we’re looking for if you have:

• Over 6 years of experience in Software Development, with a focus on Server-side and RESTful API Development and integration particularly with NodeJS
• Demonstrated experience implementing, maintaining and deploying full-stack web technologies
• Strong skills in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
• Experience in translating design wireframes into functioning UI components
• Strong understanding of standard Software Engineering processes, Testing, and Agile methodology
• A team player that always puts colleagues ahead of yourself and has a highly adaptable and versatile approach to work
• You are passionate about learning and sharing your knowledge, and not afraid to challenge your peers, but also welcome being challenged
• You have experience in mentoring team mates, or even leading an Engineering squad
• English language abilities, both written and verbal - you’ll be working with people across the world, including from Australia
   

It’ll be great, but not essential, if you also have experience with:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science of Software Engineering or an equivalent.
• Frontend software development experience with ReactJS and/or React Native or a similar Javascript/Typescript based framework.
• Experience in developing highly modular mobile applications and mobile application performance tuning.
• Experience in functional programming.
• Familiarity with AWS tooling and environments, including EC2, Kubernetes, etc.

Why you'll love working here

Why you love working here?

The EH Way

The EH Way is how we describe our culture at Employment Hero and how we all operate. It is our DNA. You can read all about it on our careers page:  

In short, you’ll love working with us if:

• Revolutionising employment gets your heart racing.
• You thrive on the flexibility (and responsibility) of a remote-first business.
• Our values align, and shape how you show up every day.
• You love the dynamic pace of a startup, are driven by innovation, and enjoy working with other smart people.

We can make you wow-to-proud and enjoy our exclusive perks and benefits at Employment Hero, including:

• Remote-first and flexible working arrangements
• 20 days Annual Leave, plus VN Public Holidays
• Leisure Rules Days - an extra day to take leave whenever you are simply not feeling very “workie”
• A generous budget to spend on setting up your home office or WFH station
• $500 USD for books, conferences & courses for your professional development plan
• $500 USD for English learning courses
• VND 80,000 budget for lunch for day-in-office
• Best-in-class hardware, tools and tech - choose either a MacBook Pro or Windows laptop
• Premium Healthcare Insurance Program for you and your loved ones.
• Sports club funded by Employment Hero
• Monthly get-together event in the office for team bonding
• Learning and development opportunities, including MCI courses, Go1 Learning, external study policy and tailor-made individual development plans
• Reward and recognition programs - because great work should be recognised and rewarded
• Including Lightning Award for delivering quality work at speed and Values Champion Awards
• Annual Global Gathering to get to know your global colleagues - we’ve been to Thailand, Da Nang (Vietnam) and are excited to meet in Bali in September 2024
• Employee Share Option Program (ESOP): be an owner of Employment Hero

Are we a match? 

Think we're the right match for you? Fantastic! Click 'Apply' and our talent team will reach out with the next steps.

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

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