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 contributor you will:
- Collaborate with colleagues from the Data Science, Feature Engineering and Product teams to build end-to-end ai powered capability that scales.
- Monitor, Maintain and Support the solutions you build including being part of an on-call roster should an urgent issue come up.
- From ideation to production enable the development of easy-to-use infrastructure, tooling and monitoring for AI applications and reproducible data science workflows
- Stay current with emerging practices, techniques and frameworks in the fields
- of applied machine learning and artificial intelligence at scale
- Support the development of your team, increasing our capability to build and
- operate intelligent, data-driven, products and services in our core customer offerings
- Champion the ethical development of data processing systems which include ML/AI components and ensure your teams are always working with the best interests of our users in mind
As a Leader you will:
- Participate in hiring and team building efforts.
- Carry out evaluation and line management and coaching activities for your direct reports.
- Actively contribute to improvement in our standards, processes, and guidelines to accelerate our maturity, both within your team and across shared services of the data and engineering groups.
- Champion and guide the successful delivery of substantial outcomes through your teams.
- Have broad engineering experience to be able to share your insight with others to unblock and guide as well as ask questions to help us make good technical decisions.
- Be the go to specialist in at least one area of relevant technology or functionally in our products.
- Form and lead cross-functional teams to conceive, design, build and operate web-scale, data driven solutions to internal and customer facing EH challenges.
- Across multiple teams, drive adoption of software-engineering best practice
- adapted to modern data-driven products including peer-review, data testing, documentation, reproducibility and agile processes.
- Seek out and quantify cross-cutting problems that hinder development teams ability to deliver AI solutions at Employment Hero.
- Work closely with Data Science and Engineering to uplift ML/AI knowledge and capabilities in squads across Employment Hero.
- Cultivates a fun, rewarding, agile and results-driven culture that lives the Employment Hero values.
Requirements
You’re the hero we’re looking for if you:
- Have proven experience as an Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager or in a similar leadership role, with a strong background in software engineering, including experience as a Back-End or Full-Stack Software Development Engineer.
- Have experience with highly available, reliable, production-grade systems at scale.
- Are a polyglot with the ability to cross over different technical stacks and manage teams working across stacks.
- Possess excellent problem-solving skills and can navigate complex technical challenges.
- Have strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Are passionate about building and leading high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence, and mentoring engineers to achieve their career goals.
- Respect and challenge your peers and team members while welcoming being challenged.
- Have experience with software development methodologies, including Agile and Scrum.
- Possess strong time management skills and the ability to balance multiple initiatives.
- Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions, viewing changes as opportunities to add structure and order when necessary.
It’ll be great, but not essential, if you also have experience with:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience working with LLM (Large Language Model) technologies.
- Experience in or willingness to learn Ruby, Python, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, AWS.
- Experience in database design and performance tuning.
- Experience working in modular monoliths and microservice architectures.
- Experience in cloud-native architectures.
Benefits
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.
But don’t just take it from us, hear from your local heroes: Thao Ta, Head of People and Culture & Hung Pham, Group Engineer Manager: Life at Employment Hero
Plus, you’ll get to enjoy a number of great perks, including:
- A generous budget for your home office.
- Cutting-edge tools and technology.
- 20 days Annual Leave, plus VN Public Holidays.
- $500 USD for your professional development plan.
- $500 USD for English learning courses.
- Premium Healthcare Insurance Program for you and your loved ones, plus full gross salary paid social insurance.
- Sports club funded by Employment Hero.
- Monthly get-together event in the office for team bonding and VND 80,000 budget for lunch for day-in-office.
- Reward and recognition programs - because great work should be recognised and rewarded.
- Employee Share Option Program: be an owner of Employment Hero.
- Annual Global Gathering - so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam and are excited to meet in Bali in September 2024.
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.
