Employment Hero is an Australian tech unicorn - valued at over $1 billion. Our world-class software is the easiest way for small to medium-sized businesses to manage HR, payroll, employee engagement, and benefits. We've grown 100% year on year since inception, and expanded globally in late 2020. We now service over 80,000 businesses and we will continue to grow rapidly in 2022 and beyond.

We believe in distributed employment and take a ‘Remote First' approach with our team. Employment Hero can hire across the globe, assuming that candidates have eligible working rights and are in a suitable timezone. If you've got the skills for the role and the passion for our mission then we want to hear from you!

We’re on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer (Mobile) to work closely with our engineering and product teams to deliver the first iteration of a novel embedded Fintech platform within Employment Hero. The eBenefits + Fintech squad is a new team within Employment Hero, focused on building products that improve employment outcomes for employees. To achieve this, we're creating a new fintech platform and infrastructure, which is separate and distinct to the existing infrastructure that Employment Hero has in place.

Reporting to our Lead Engineer, you will form an integral component of our payments technical council and, together with the Solution Architect & Lead Engineer, accelerate the development of the payments platform. This is a pivotal new role in framing and scaling the next phase of our Employment Hero journey, as we integrate nextgen fintech capabilities into our employee Payments and Benefits offers.

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

Responsibilities

Hands-on design + delivery of our Mobile and Web applications - Plan, Test, Build and Release (you gotta love writing code)

Champion of agile, presenting and communicating effectively with stakeholders, senior management and 3rd party vendors

Provide technical guidance and support best practice within our engineering team, spearheading the development our new employment and fintech SuperApp

Work across the full technology stack, accelerating the design of our new payment solutions

Participate in strategic product and technical fintech decision processes

Assist ongoing integration by subsequent squads back into platform

Design + lead technical best practices (git flow, code reviews, etc.)

Requirements

5+ years designing and building highly scalable distributed software systems

3+ years experience with React Native

Advocate of engineering best practices such as CI/CD, clean code, automated testing etc.

Pragmatism - Ability to assess the situation before taking decisions

Highly collaborative and a team player

Strong product mindset - Keeping a customer focus when making decisions

Strong opinions, loosely held. An ability to evolve with the platform as it grows and scales

These things aren't required, but they'd be an added bonus!

Experience in fintech, particularly w/r/t card / payment processing or consumer finance

Experience defining test, build, and deploy strategies for payments products

Understanding of financial system security requirements and standards compliance

Experience integrating with banking systems and protocols

Experience in implementing cloud SaaS product (backend)

Benefits

Self, health, wealth and happiness programs

Remote-first and flexible working arrangements

Our Sydney office is dog friendly and remains open for team meetings, collaboration days and those who need a day away from their home office (we are a COVID-safe workspace for those who choose to use it!)

A generous budget to spend on setting up your home office (if you need a desk, chair, screen? You name it!)

We set you up for success with the latest and greatest hardware, tools and tech

Continuing education / post-graduate assistance program

Virtual yoga classesWeekly virtual happy-hour and social events to get to know your new colleagues

Quarterly & yearly team celebrations

Access to the EH Employee Benefits Program and Hero Rewards Shop, of course!

Employee Share Option Program: be an owner of Employment Hero!

Why join Employment Hero?

Raised $181M achieving unicorn status February 2022

LinkedIn Top 25 Startups 2021, ranked #2 in Australia

The Australian Top 100 Innovators List 2021

Raised $140M Series E round led by Insight Partners July 2021

Raised $45M Series D round led by Seek 2021

Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2020, ranked #42 in Australia

LinkedIn Top 10 Startups 2020

Raised $22M Series C Round led by Seek July 2019

Raised $8 mill series B round led by Seek and OneVentures

Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2019, ranked #20 in Australia

GetApp Category Leader Q1 2019

Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2018, ranked #12 in Australia

HRD Gold Medalist - Human Capital Management Systems 2018

HRD Gold Medalist - Rewards and Recognition Service Provider 2018

HRD Rewards and Recognition Employer of Choice 2018

LinkedIn Top 25 Startups 2018

EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Finalist 2018