Product Engineer

Workyard puts everything between the job site and the office on autopilot for contractors. GPS-verified time tracking, automatic cost coding, compliance caught before it becomes a problem, and verified data flowing straight into payroll and accounting without anyone touching it twice. Thousands of workers clock in with Workyard every day across construction businesses in the US.

We are building a team where the best work of your career happens. Real ownership from your first month, people around you who are exceptional at what they do, and a company small enough that what you build is unmistakably yours. We are proud of what we have made here and more excited about where it will go with the right people in it.

Workyard was built by a brother-and-sister team who ran payroll for 500+ field workers and couldn't find a single tool that got the hours right, so they built one. Founded in 2018, pivoted from staffing marketplace to SaaS in 2021 when marketplace customers started asking to use the tool for their whole team. Today the company has about 70 people across Australia and the US and is growing fast. Construction contractors have been sold software that didn't work before, so they don't hand out trust. When we earn it, a foreman telling other contractors "this one actually works" does more than any marketing budget.

We don't hire engineers to take tickets. We hire them to build products. You’ll own the lifecycle of delivering products end to end. Shape ideas with Product Managers, build it alongside your engineering peers, ship it, measure it and help decide what happens next.

You'll build for one of the largest industries in the US and one of the least digitized. Plenty of contractors still run payroll off paper timesheets, spreadsheets and a foreman's memory. The rules are hard. Multi-rate overtime, prevailing wage, certified payroll, union agreements and crews moving between job sites every day. Getting that right in software is the work.

What we build is changing shape too. More and more, Workyard does the checking so the office doesn't have to. It flags the missed punch, the wrong cost code and the overtime nobody approved before payroll runs. Designing how contractors come to trust that, one workflow at a time, while each piece still delivers value today, is a big part of this role.

And how software gets built is changing. AI-assisted development has shrunk the gap between an idea and a working version. We want builders who already work that way. Prototype in an afternoon, get it in front of a contractor within days.

You’ll be mainly working across our React front end and Laravel back-end hosted on AWS. Our stack also includes native iOS/Android apps.

This role is based from our Sydney office (Hybrid, 2 days a week in office), reporting directly to the Head of Product (Co-founder).

You're an engineer who also is a product thinker. You'd rather understand the research yourself than be handed a spec, and you'd rather ship something rough on Tuesday than something perfect next month. You care about the code, but you care more about whether it changed someone's day in the field.

• You solve problems with other people, not around them. You challenge assumptions, make your case and change minds

• You want to understand the customer’s problem, own the experience and build it yourself

• You're excited that AI lets you code faster and better, because it frees up more of your time for product thinking

• Working on deep technical problems excites you more than solving customer facing problems

• You'd prefer someone else be accountable for the product experience, scoping and planning, you just want to focus on coding.

• You're not interested in learning how construction, payroll or the business side works. You'd rather stay in the code.