SafetyCulture
Staff Backend Engineer
To help solve the challenges faced in an increasingly distributed workforce
Software engineering
Full-time
Hybrid | Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.
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Why SafetyCulture
The world’s largest checklist app — and that’s just the beginning. As millions of inspections flowed into our platform one thing emerged: safety and quality share a relationship. Small but rapid changes in individual acts, repeated consistently are transformative. For safety, for quality, for efficiency. Our platform now includes sensors, issue reports, data capture, analytics, risk mitigation and mobile training.
About the role
The tech stack We use a modern technology stack including Swift/Kotlin/C++ (mobile); React.js (front end); Golang/node.js (back end); AWS/Kafka/Kubernetes (infrastructure)
The role As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be empowered to manage complex architectural decisions and drive change. You’ll own delivery of practical solutions to solve real-world problems for customers, with the knowledge that what you build has an immediate positive impact.
You’ll face exciting technical challenges as we scale, and be an integral part of the engineering team. High-performing teams here own their services, and you’re trusted to build and run a system that serves hundreds of thousands of users while transforming it into a system that will serve millions of users in the near future. We empower engineers to learn new skills and use technology to solve customer problems, including initiatives in IoT, machine learning, and event-driven architecture.
How you can have an impact Be recognised as an expert in relevant technologies to the role, and have influence over the direction of the team and function. Improve others’ ability to deliver great work and drive initiatives focused on release-safety, repeatability, and improving the way we do things. Mentor colleagues, actively engage in building a culture of candid feedback, and help the engineering teams give and receive constructive feedback. We encourage involvement in the community, open source work, attending talks and events, and experimenting with new technologies.
The teams In Sydney we have teams developing and supporting our SaaS platform, working on extending the functionality and longer term strategic bets, including real-time incident reporting, analytics, and IoT. Each team has a co-located manager, product manager, designer, direct access to customers, and support from specialists in quality, SRE and specific technologies.
Essential Skills
- Depth of knowledge in a back end coding language and associated libraries/frameworks
- Ability to own delivery of complex features, break down requirements and provide reasonable estimates
- Ability to articulate effort vs impact tradeoffs
- Able to improve others’ ability to deliver great work
- Able to demonstrate SafetyCulture values (Think Customer, Open Honest Always, Better as a Team, Be Bold Bring Action)
Desirable Skills
- Experience with security, access, and permissions
- Working with service-oriented/microservice architectures
- Experience with key/value store and relational databases (e.g. DynamoDB, Postgres, MySQL)
- Building and running SaaS or cloud services at scale
- Experience working in a technical leadership capacity
At SafetyCulture, we care about people and growing the team. Here’s a few ways we’re acting on our values
- Flexible working arrangements. We encourage you to create the best work blend while working from your home and the local SafetyCulture office
- You’ll have access to professional and personal training and development opportunities
- We’re a pet friendly workplace
- Hackathons - if you’re into them :)
- Workshops and Lunch & Learns from our leadership and industry experts
- We also encourage you to get involved in the community, open source work, attending talks and events, and experimenting with new technologies; whatever floats your boat!
But wait, there’s more... You’ll also receive other perks such as:
- Equity with high growth potential, and a competitive salary
- Great food! Our In-house chefs will serve up fresh and healthful breakfast, lunch and unlimited snacks catering to all dietary requirements
- Love coffee or tea? Our commercial espresso machine has you covered. We also have beer and wine on tap, a pool table, board games, and books library
- Wellbeing is key! We offer initiatives such as subsidised fitness programs, EAP services and [generous parental leave policy](https://medium.com/@SafetyCulture/having-children-is-a-special-time-in-your-life-our-new-parental-leave-policy-b48745ab35a4)
- Last but not least, we celebrate quarterly and our teams love the annual ShipIt global offsite
What you'll be responsible for
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Stakeholder Engagement
Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights
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Scripting and Automation
Develop scripts and automated workflows to improve the efficiency and accuracy of repeated tasks
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Test Automation
Create and implement code tests and software test automation
Skills you'll need
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Collaboration
Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals
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Numerical problem solving
Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems
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Attention to detail
Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables