Senior Engineer - Web Properties

Full Time
Sydney NSW, Australia
9 months ago

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. 

Culture Amp revolutionizes how over 25 million employees across 6,000 companies create a better world of work. As the global platform leader for employee experience, Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, develop high performing teams, and retain talent via cutting-edge research, powerful technology, and the largest employee dataset in the world. The most innovative companies across the globe, such as Salesforce, PwC, KIND, SoulCycle, Celonis and BigCommerce depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by 10 years of innovation, leading capital venture funds, and offices in the U.S, U.K, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp is recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and one of the most innovative workplace companies by Fast Company.

Learn more about how Culture Amp can help you create a better world of work at cultureamp.com.

About the role

You’ll be joining a team working on our marketing web properties to conceptualise, deliver and maintain web and digital solutions which enable Culture Amp to engage, support and communicate with its global audiences.

The core application our team is responsible for is Culture Amp’s marketing website, a custom Ruby (Hanami 2) application, built using Tailwind CSS, Typescript and Playwright end-to-end testing, hosted on AWS. 

As an engineer in our team you can expect to:

  • Tackle a wide variety of technical problems across our codebases and tech stack as you build, iterate and maintain our marketing web properties
  • Work cross-functionally with a talented team of engineers, designers and marketing professionals to develop, refine and implement innovative and scalable solutions
  • Collaborate with other engineers in our team through pair programming, writing solution designs, or giving feedback on pull requests, to build shared understanding of your work
  • Maintain and support the properties our team is responsible for. Ensure our dependencies and codebases are up-to-date, compliant, performant and accessible

About you

This job is for you if:

  • You have experience in building web-based software applications. You understand fundamental engineering concepts, scalability, security, and maintenance
  • You are comfortable with engineering across the stack including writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and you have a good understanding of Ruby – previous experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (ie: TypeScript, React) and Tailwind is preferred but not mandatory
  • You are conscious of web accessibility, performance and discoverability. You think about your work and its impact on users and their experience
  • Your code is covered by integration and unit tests. You understand the value of test-driven development and know how and when to add tests
  • You are familiar with integrating third party marketing services and ensuring website performance, compliance and accessibility are not compromised
  • Your process involves documenting your work. You write code that is consistent, maintainable, and understood by your teammates
  • You are a proactive and clear communicator. You value empathy and kindness and are able to articulate your ideas and feelings when writing or speaking, and are open to the perspectives others bring
  • You seek to understand and solve problems, have a growth mindset and a willingness to embrace challenges
  • You’re self-motivated and can work independently. You take the initiative to ensure that you have everything you need to work efficiently and call for support when required

You’re aligned with our values and demonstrate them through your working practice

We believe that inclusive businesses are better, not just for “company results”, but for the world. We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

We ensure you have the tools you need to thrive both in and out of work.

  • MacBooks for you to do your best work 

  • Share Options - it’s important to us that everyone is an owner and can share in our success

  • Excellent parental leave and in work support programme, - for those families to be

  • Fun and inclusive digital, and in-person events

Most importantly, an opportunity to really make a difference in people’s lives.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it.