[Hiring] Software Engineer @Safeguard Global

Role Description

As our Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and enhancing the core user-facing capabilities owned by the Connected Experiences team, including:

• Home page
• Mobile app
• Account setup
• Permissions

This work is central to delivering a seamless and intuitive experience across Safeguard Global's products. We are evolving these areas into a modern, scalable, and event-driven platform built on AWS. This next phase focuses on:

• Strengthening backend services
• Improving system reliability
• Enabling more responsive, user-centric functionality across all touchpoints

You will join a small, high-performing agile team responsible for building secure, scalable, and reliable backend systems that support critical user journeys and drive consistent, high-quality experiences for our customers.

Qualifications

• A proven ability to design, build, and own backend or platform systems that scale
• Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js preferred)
• Deep experience with AWS, particularly:
• Lambda
• S3
• EventBridge (or SNS/SQS)
• Infrastructure as Code (CDK/Terraform/SST)
• API Gateway, CloudWatch
• Proven experience building event-driven, serverless architectures
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with analytical/data workloads
• Experience designing and building scalable APIs and backend services
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, data consistency, and reliability patterns
• Experience working with modern data stacks (e.g., dbt, Athena, Glue, data lakes)
• Familiarity with data modelling and transforming datasets for analytics use cases
• Experience supporting BI tools such as QuickSight (or similar)
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and production observability
• Comfortable working in agile, iterative environments with strong ownership
• Excellent communication skills

Requirements

• Design and build scalable, event-driven backend services using AWS (Lambda, EventBridge, S3, etc.)
• Develop and support APIs and data services that power analytics, integrations, and product features
• Own services end-to-end, from design through to production monitoring and optimisation
• Build and evolve event-driven architectures using EventBridge, SNS/SQS, and serverless patterns
• Ensure systems are resilient, idempotent, and capable of handling distributed data workflows
• Drive best practices around event modelling and service decoupling
• Collaborate closely with Data Engineering to design and evolve data models using dbt and modern data tooling
• Build and support data pipelines and storage patterns across S3, Athena, and related AWS services
• Enable high-quality, reconcilable datasets across domains such as worker, payroll, invoice, and usage
• Support and extend analytics capabilities using AWS QuickSight and embedded reporting
• Enable scalable, secure, multi-tenant data access patterns including row-level security
• Contribute to the evolution of self-service analytics and data exploration
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and telemetry using CloudWatch and related tools
• Define and support SLAs/SLOs around data freshness, pipeline reliability, and API performance
• Build robust automated testing and CI/CD pipelines
• Design systems with strong access control, auditing, and data protection practices
• Work with sensitive HR and financial data in a secure, compliant manner
• Contribute to architecture, design reviews, and technical strategy
• Promote best practices in backend engineering, serverless design, and data systems
• Mentor others and raise the overall engineering bar

Benefits

• Autonomy and Flexibility: Remote first, with the flexibility to include life needs like school runs and gym breaks in your schedule, all while maintaining a high standard of work.
• Generous leave: Enjoy a competitive leave package including paid bonding leaves for new additions to your family.
• Make a difference: Get 2 paid charitable days off to contribute to causes you believe in.
• Corporate bonus/SIP: All Guardians are eligible for our annual bonus scheme or sales incentive plan.
• International environment: Grow your network internationally and collaborate across the world. Interact, discover cultures, and tap into local expertise.
• Human centered culture: We emphasize the people factor in everything we do. Our nurturing culture ensures your ideas reach our leaders and your contributions get the recognition they deserve.
• Learning: We support your continuous growth by providing access to 2 learning platforms, where you can learn at your own pace.