Software Engineer - Full Stack

Full Time
Sydney NSW, Australia
8 months ago

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

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading capital venture funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

How you can help make a better world of work

We're thrilled to offer a position for a Software Engineer to join Team Review Cycles. Our team is at the forefront of rebuilding a significant portion of our Performance product, leveraging a more adaptable domain model and a cutting-edge tech stack featuring next.js, TailwindCSS, Storybook, Ruby on Rails, Temporal, Postgres, and AWS Aurora Serverless. As part of the team, you'll play a crucial role in our ongoing rebuild project, driving it forward through its final stages and building upon established patterns and processes. Following the rebuild, the team will pivot towards rapid product innovation within the next six months, offering you the opportunity to be part of this exciting phase of our journey.

 

As part of this team of amazing humans…

You will:

  • Tackle a wide variety of technical problems across our new codebase as you build features and help us move to a distributed and event-driven architecture.
  • Collaborate with other engineers through pair programming, writing solution designs, or giving feedback on pull requests, to build shared understanding of your work.
  • Work with the product managers and designers to understand customer problems and help to develop, refine, and then implement solutions that ultimately makes the world of work a better place.
  • Maintain, and support the services the team is responsible for. 
  • Ensure our dependencies are up-to-date, observe and understand services in production, refactor code, and attend to issues raised by our customers.
  • Maintain the exceptional standards of excellence already established within the team, including maintaining extremely high code coverage, ensuring zero warnings/errors/exceptions on production, and a continuous improvement/innovation/learning mindset.

You have:

  • The ability to contribute to the technical success and culture of the team as a whole, through excellent code, software design, improving practices, and influencing our ways of working
  • Experience with test-driven development and know how and when to add tests - you understand its value

You are:

  • A T-shaped, backend leaning, full stack software engineer experienced in relational databases, distributed systems, SaaS products, and large-scale applications. Bonus if you have experience in Ruby on Rails.
  • Product-focused and always pursue to make a solid business impact
  • 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.
  • Aligned with our values / https://www.cultureamp.com/company#values and can demonstrate them through your working practice.

It’s not expected that any single candidate would check every box here — what’s important is that you arrive with a strong set of fundamentals, and that you’re committed to building the skills you’ll need to do great work. Similarly, while we use a range of specific technologies you don’t need to have direct experience with them for this position and there’ll be opportunities to learn as part of the role.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: 

  • Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
  • Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
  • Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
  • Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
  • Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
  • Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
  • Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
  • Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
  • 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
  • MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
  • Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only) 

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 

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.

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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.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

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. 

 

 

If you require reasonable accommodations or adjustments to complete the online application or to participate in the interview process, please contact accommodations@cultureamp.com  and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.