Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer - Platform - Permission and Login

Location: Melbourne

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 venture capital 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.

• Tackle a wide variety of technical challenges as we evolve our architecture from a monolith to a distributed, event-driven microservices platform.
• Contribute to a pivotal team that supports all of our product teams growth. Our projects are diverse and dynamic, ranging from enhancing our existing Golang services, moving functionality out of Ruby on Rails monolith or building new services in Kotlin or Next.js.
• Own the entire feature lifecycle, from conception through to deployment and production. Our cross-functional teams have the autonomy to see their work through from start to finish.
• Collaborate and lead by example, whether it's through pair/team programming, writing solution designs, or providing thoughtful feedback on pull requests.
• Collaborate across teams to empower them with our shared services for authentication, authorization, and feature management.

• Extensive experience building and operating web-based software applications, with a deep understanding of scalability, security, and maintenance.
• Solid experience in one or more of TypeScript, Go, Kotlin or Ruby, and a strong willingness to learn new languages and technologies.
• A proven track record of building and maintaining both backend and frontend services. You know how to build robust APIs and develop responsive, visually appealing user interfaces.
• A commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code. Your process is reliable, and you are an advocate for test-driven development.
• Excellent communication skills. You can articulate complex ideas clearly, listen to others' perspectives with empathy, and contribute to a kind and collaborative team environment.
• A bonus if you have existing authentication or authorisation experience

• 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.
• 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.
• Interested in understanding and solving customer problems. You think about how your work – at all levels – impacts our customers and improves their experience.
• You are aligned with our values and demonstrate them through your working practice.

• 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
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance: an automatic allowance paid with your pay
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: a quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to reset and rest
• Extended year-end breaks
• Excellent parental leave and in-work support from day 1
• 5 Social Impact Days per year
• MacBooks and a work-from-home office budget
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)

Culture Amp is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. We are proud of our anti-racism commitments and invite applicants to learn more about our current efforts.

Culture Amp is an equal employment opportunity employer. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. If you require reasonable accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact accommodations@cultureamp.com.

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