Lead Web Developer

Deputy is a global SaaS workforce management company with hubs in Sydney, Melbourne, San Francisco and London, plus team members working remotely across the United States. Our platform serves over 1.5 million workers and 375,000 workplaces across 100+ countries. We are backed by top global investors and recently achieved Unicorn status.

At Deputy, we’re improving the world of work, one shift at a time, for 80% of the world’s workforce: hourly workers. These are the dedicated employees who keep our world running – from baristas to nurses, cleaners to delivery drivers, florists to factory workers. Despite their vital role in society, most workplace technology has focused on those workers who sit behind a desk, but at Deputy, we transform the frontline.

When businesses use Deputy, their workplaces thrive – the business is more profitable, compliant, and productive, while the workers are more engaged and happier at work.

We're becoming an AI-native company, a commitment that means you'll be empowered (and expected) to use AI tools and thinking in your day-to-day work. You'll have the training, support, and freedom to use AI responsibly and creatively to spark ideas, solve problems faster, and unlock new ways of working.

If you’re passionate about creating solutions that put people first and helping businesses and their teams thrive, join us at Deputy and make an impact where it matters most!

We're looking for a Lead Web Engineer to help shape the digital experience of  — the front door to our product for hundreds of thousands of visitors. Working closely with the marketing, design, and content teams, you'll own the technical delivery of a high-performance marketing website that drives acquisition and tells Deputy's story to the world.

This is a hands‑on role where you'll build and maintain a modern, component‑driven website powered by a headless CMS and deployed to the edge. You'll combine strong fullstack web engineering fundamentals with an eye for performance, SEO, and accessibility — and you'll use AI tools and Agentic development practices as a natural part of your workflow to move faster and deliver better outcomes.

• Design, build, and maintain components and pages using a modern SSR/SSG framework (e.g. Nuxt, Next.js), ensuring high performance, accessibility, and SEO best practices.
• Work within a headless CMS architecture (e.g. Storyblok, Contentful) to deliver content‑driven pages, collaborating with content editors and marketers on content workflows and component design.
• Champion web performance — Core Web Vitals, critical CSS, pre‑rendering strategies, image optimisation — to deliver fast, reliable experiences across devices and regions.
• You define the technical architecture and long‑term roadmap for , ensuring it scales with the business's global growth goals.
• You lead cross‑functional initiatives between Marketing, Design, and Engineering to solve complex digital acquisition and performance challenges.
• Integrate and maintain third‑party services, including analytics platforms (e.g. Datadog, GTM, Segment), consent management, and marketing tools.
• Write automated tests (unit and end‑to‑end) and participate in code reviews to uphold a high‑quality, maintainable codebase.
• Independently drive a fleet of AI Coding Agents as part of your daily workflow — for component development, debugging, code review, content workflows, and performance analysis. You are not expected to hand‑write code, and will apply critical judgment to validate and steer AI‑generated output.
• You establish and maintain company‑wide software development standards for web engineering, including accessibility, security, and edge deployment practices.
• You determine the methods and frameworks for new assignments, moving beyond execution to influence how work is approached across the marketing function.
• You drive the evolution of Deputy’s AI‑native development workflows, setting the standard for how Agentic development is integrated into the engineering lifecycle.
• Deploy and manage frontend applications on edge platforms (e.g. Cloudflare Pages, Vercel), including working with serverless functions and workers where needed.
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