You will be a Backend Engineer specializing in Node.js and TypeScript at Deel, an all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. You'll collaborate across disciplines to develop and enhance scalable, high-performance features and APIs, ensuring a customer-centric experience while working in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate in a cross-functional team with Frontend Engineers, Product Teams, Designers, and QA professionals to create seamless experiences.
- Participate in product planning from discovery to deployment, contributing throughout all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle.
- Develop and enhance robust new features, APIs, and continuously improve industry-leading products.
- Help find and fix bugs at 'Deel Speed'.
- Ensure top-tier products and services through quality engineering and attentive, customer-focused development.
What We're Looking For
- Expertise in Backend Development: Strong proficiency in Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript best practices, along with experience in at least one other server-side language.
- Database Mastery: You're a SQL guru, particularly with PostgreSQL, handling query optimization, data migrations, and database modeling.
- Solid Grasp of OOP and Design Patterns: Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns, with experience in building and extending classes.
- Scalability Focus: Experience in designing systems for scalability, ensuring they manage rapid growth and increasing demands efficiently.
- High-Volume Performance: Proven expertise in optimizing systems for large transaction volumes, handling concurrency, idempotency, and performance under load.
- API Development: Skilled in building APIs, including input validation, JWT tokens, and ensuring security & scalability through queue-based systems.
- Experience: at least 4 years of experience as a Software Engineer.
- Excel in Application Development: You thrive in designing, coding, testing, and maintaining applications using the tech stack mentioned above.
- Thrive in Remote Collaboration: Excel in a remote-first environment with proactive communication and strong asynchronous collaboration skills to ensure alignment and effective teamwork. You’ve successfully worked in distributed teams.
- Blending Autonomy and Collaboration: You take ownership of projects while excelling in team environments, driving shared success.
- Communicate Complex Ideas Easily: You can clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Solve Problems with Optimism: You’re passionate about solving customer problems with your coding superpowers, and approach challenges with Default Optimism whilst maintaining a balanced perspective.
- Business-Focused Development: You take a business-focused approach to software development, with a keen eye on delivering high-value outcomes for our clients.
- Genuine Care: You embody our core value of Genuine Care, understanding how your work impacts our customers.
Nice to Have
- Have SaaS experience: experience with SaaS products running 24/7 on major cloud vendors.
- Familiar with Serverless Architecture: experience with serverless architecture on AWS.
- Understand FinTech: knowledge of the Fintech Industry and its unique challenges.
Technical Stack
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- AWS
- Serverless Architecture
- APIs
- JWT tokens
- Queue-based systems
Team & Environment
- Team size: 7,000 employees across more than 100 countries
- Structure: Globally distributed, cross-functional teams including Frontend Engineers, Product Teams, Designers, and QA professionals
Benefits & Compensation
- Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
- Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
- The flexibility of remote work
- Optional WeWork access
- Equal-opportunity employer status
- Accommodations provided on request for applicants with disabilities
- AI-powered deepfake and fraud detection for identity verification during assessments and interviews
Work Mode
- Fully remote with optional WeWork access
Deel is an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Deel is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Accommodations are provided on request for applicants with disabilities. The hiring process uses Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT) and AI systems with human oversight, compliant with data protection and labor laws. Personal data is not used to train AI models.
