Tanda is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Product Team. We’re a bootstrapped company that has been funded by customers for over a decade. In the last 2 years Tanda has released two new Software Products - Payroll and HR and there’s plans to launch and grow many more. The product team powers our Workforce Management, HR and Payroll products and deploys 30+ changes per day. We have been strongly encouraging our team to adopt AI in the areas it makes sense to - we want to be on the forefront of these new tools and new ways of working.

We will only be considering candidates who are based in Brisbane (or willing to relocate), and excited to work in the office the majority of the time. Tanda values moving fast, and our interview process reflects that. It’s two steps - a 30min phone call with the hiring manager, and then if that goes well an in office pair programming session with the hiring manager and another member of the team.

The traits we value at all levels are:

• Curiosity - you like to learn, and don’t make the same mistakes twice.
• Initiative - within reason, you are self-driven and always looking to make an impact. The more senior you get, the more we expect you to be manager of one (https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1430-hire-managers-of-one)
• Problem solving - you are methodical in your approach to breaking apart problems and figuring out how to solve them in the best way possible under the constraints you face.

The lowest end of the salary range for this role is $160k + Super.

Read about our 11 year journey here: https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/11-years-of-hosting-a-saas

The Work

At Tanda we like boring and predictable technology. Our product is a Ruby on Rails Monolith deployed on EC2 instances with PostgreSQL on RDS hosted on AWS. Heading into 2026, we have a lot of product to build, and a lot more customers to serve. We encourage Engineers to work with AI & make it easy to sign up to different tools you’d like to try.

In your first 6mo you will work closely with the Head of Product & Head of Engineering. They will help grow your context of our product and code base, and set the expectations about pace and priority. After this period you will join one of the product squads and work to elevate the team's expertise and velocity.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first year, you'll:

• Have deep knowledge of our codebase and business domain
• Lead the implementation of several major product initiatives
• Improve our development practices through code reviews and technical documentation
• Help establish patterns and practices that make our monolith easier to work with
• Be a trusted voice in technical discussions and architectural decisions

About You

Your extensive Ruby on Rails experience is valuable, but if you have experience with another MVC framework like Laravel we think you’d be able to pick up Rails easily enough. is matched by your passion for building products that matter. You thrive on solving challenging technical problems and get energised when you see your solutions making a real difference for customers. You value clean code but understand that perfect is sometimes the enemy of good.

We expect that you have experience as a Senior Engineer, and have both the projects and impact to prove you can execute. You are comfortable leading from the front, demonstrating what it means to be a professional. You take your work seriously, and keep the customer at the centre of what you do.

You can expect to have a lot of ownership over your work. We enjoy working with curious people who take initiative and demand a high bar for themselves and the team they work with.

Why Apply?

See your impact

• We’re a small engineering team, but our product is global. You can personally have a huge impact on our customers’ productivity.

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