Senior Software Engineer (Data)Hybrid

Who are we?  

Humanforce’s vision is to make work easier and life better for frontline and flexible workforces. 

Humanforce provides the market leading, best-in-one human capital management (HCM) suite for frontline and flexible workforces - without compromise. Our employee centred, intelligent and compliant HCM suite is highly integrated and composable, and consists of Workforce Management (WFM), HR, Payroll, and Wellbeing.  

Humanforce has built strong foundations since its founding in 2002. We help over 2300 customers and almost 1 million employees under management in 30+ countries, across a wide range of industries, including aged, child and health care; education; hospitality; retail; local government and more. Today, we have offices across Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, North America and the Philippines.

Customers choose Humanforce because we enable them to deliver an exceptional employee experience, build a compelling employee value proposition, and connect the flow of the world’s talent with the growth, productivity and efficiency objectives of frontline and flexible workforces. 

Who you are 

As a Senior Software Engineer (Data) at Humanforce, you will play a critical role in the end-to-end development of a brand-new product within our platform suite. You’ll be responsible for delivering engineering solutions that embed actionable data insights directly into the product experience. 

Your work will underpin our customer-facing analytics capabilities—enabling users to uncover insights and take action across areas such as workforce management, HR, compliance, and employee wellbeing. 

This is a hands-on, high-impact engineering role that spans the full stack—from data integration and UI development to orchestration and observability. You will work within a cross-functional squad that includes engineering, data engineering, and analytics specialists. 

What you will do

• Design, build, and own a new web application that integrates third-party systems via SDKs and APIs. 
• Collaborate with product, data, and design teams to create intuitive, data-driven experiences that help customers make better workforce decisions. 
• Translate high-level product goals into a sequenced technical roadmap with well-defined milestones and deliverables. 
• Take ownership of the application’s engineering architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability. 
• Develop and maintain user-centric, scalable UI components using TypeScript and Next.js/React. 
• Define and uphold technical standards and best practices within the engineering team. 
• Work closely with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure robust deployment pipelines and cloud-native operations. 
• Implement a high level of observability, testing, and monitoring throughout the application lifecycle. 
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to engineers within your squad. 

 What you’ll need

• 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with end-to-end ownership of customer-facing applications. 
• Advanced proficiency in TypeScript and deep experience with React/Next.js. 
• Demonstrated success delivering complex features across multi-product or multi-module applications, from architecture through to production. 
• Solid experience with DevOps practices and tools such as Docker, GitHub Actions, and AWS. 
• Strong working knowledge of testing and observability tools, including Playwright, BrowserStack, and New Relic. 
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a strong product and user experience mindset. 
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms is a plus. 

Our values   

• We are bold   
• We are all in   
• We are customer obsessed   
• We do what we say   
• We are good humans   

Our approach to flexibility   

We are passionate about people making their own decisions about where and when they work. Our aim is to facilitate hybrid working (mix of in the office and from home) where possible to support our people to be effective, empowered, and productive to achieve both their career and personal goals. Because we recognise that working flexibly means different things to different people, flexible working exists in many forms.  

Benefits  

• A flexible working environment   
• The opportunity to be part of a fast-growing tech company    
• A focus on development with access to Go1 
• Paid parental leave and Quarterly Wellbeing Days    
• Employee talent referral scheme (know great people, be rewarded)    
• A fun and friendly culture working with passionate and talented people    
• A work environment where you can genuinely improve the world of work!  

We are a diverse and dispersed organisation and are actively looking to grow our team with individuals from all diverse backgrounds. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, ages, genders, neurodiversity, religions, sexual orientations, and experiences to apply.     

We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every applicant.