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Safeguard Global

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

💰 Venture Round on 2019-05

Consulting • Logistics • Travel

Safeguard Global is a company that provides services and solutions to aid businesses in expanding and managing their workforce internationally. They specialize in global payroll, workforce solutions, and providing compliance expertise to ensure businesses adhere to different regulatory requirements around the world. Their goal is to help businesses operate globally with ease, offering support in navigating complex international employment issues.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the architecture of scalable, event-driven systems on AWS • Lead the design and evolution of core platform services and distributed systems • Set technical direction across teams, ensuring consistency and long-term maintainability • Solve complex, cross-cutting engineering problems (e.g. scaling, data consistency, system resilience) • Establish best practices for reliability, observability, and performance across the platform • Design systems that handle high event throughput, failure scenarios, and eventual consistency at scale • Partner closely with Data Engineering to shape data architecture, pipelines, and platform capabilities • Influence and improve engineering standards, tooling, and ways of working • Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical leader across multiple teams • Contribute to strategic technical decisions and roadmap planning

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience (typically 8-12+ years) building and scaling backend systems in production environments • Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js preferred) or similar backend ecosystems • Strong hands-on experience designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures • Proven experience architecting systems on AWS, particularly serverless (Lambda, EventBridge, S3, API Gateway) • Track record of leading large-scale technical initiatives or platform transformations • Deep understanding of reliability patterns (e.g. idempotency, retries, backpressure, fault tolerance) • Experience operating systems at scale, including observability, monitoring, and incident response • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, Terraform, or similar) • Solid understanding of data modelling and working with high-volume, data-intensive systems • Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority. • Nice to Have • Experience with modern data platforms (e.g. dbt, Athena, data lakes) • Experience in multi-tenant SaaS architectures at scale • Familiarity with BI and analytics tools (e.g. QuickSight) • Exposure to frontend technologies (React / Next.js) • Experience introducing or scaling platform engineering practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Autonomy and Flexibility (work in any way): 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.