Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer - Platform - Permission and Login

Sydney

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.

How you can help make a better world of work

You will be a core member of #team_permissions_and_login, the team responsible for building the central nervous system of our platform, covering authentication, authorisation, feature flags and other key systems. Our work is crucial—we provide the shared services that empower all of Culture Amp's engineering teams to build new features, scale our platform, and maintain our product with confidence.

As part of this team of amazing humans,

You will

- 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.

You have

- 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

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.
- 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.

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

If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding roles in Germany).These questions are completely optional, but your participation truly helps. By sharing this anonymous information, you support our efforts to build a more inclusive and equitable hiring process—and help us hold ourselves accountable to that commitment. Your responses are entirely confidential and will not impact hiring decisions.

If you require reasonable accommodations or adjustments due to a disability 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.

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