Senior Software Engineer (Frontend Security)

Employment Hero is an Australian tech unicorn - valued at over $1.25 billion.

Our world-class software is the easiest way for small and medium-sized businesses to manage HR, payroll, employee engagement, and benefits. We’ve grown 100% year-on-year since our inception in 2014, and now service over 200,000 businesses and over 1 Million active users globally. We have exciting growth plans for 2023 and beyond, powered by our mission of making employment easier and more valuable for everyone.

We take a Remote First approach with our team. Employment Hero can hire across the world, so long as candidates have eligible working rights and are in a suitable timezone to their colleagues. If you’ve got the skills for the role and the passion for our mission then we want to hear from you!

About the Software Development Engineer Job:

As our Software Development Engineer focused on Security you will sit within our Security and Core Platform team, working closely with Infrastructure, engineering and product teams across the business.

As a core member of our Security Engineering function, this role will see you being a critical part of the team helping to design and develop our infrastructure and its security standards.

This is a hands-on role that requires experience and expertise in managing projects and processes related to the security of our networks, AWS cloud-based systems and applications.

To be a success in this role you’ll relish the challenge of working in a business that has scaled rapidly over the last few years, and are ambitious to find elegant and simple solutions to complex security challenges at scale.

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our security engineering team who will:

• Develop, implement and maintain security protocols and practices in software applications
• Perform security audits and identify potential vulnerabilities in software products,
• Remedying and patching vulnerabilities
• Collaborate with other developers and engineers to evangelise security in building software
• Have a passion for and demonstrated experience in quality coding, through testing and test automation tools/frameworks
• Learn and collaborate with our highly respected and amazing Full-stack Developers

This position is ideally suited to someone who is passionate about complex frontend security challenges and is excited to join a high performing and supportive team as we move into our next period of major growth.