Senior Engineer - Habits - Recognise
Published on April 11, 2024
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, Unilever, 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.
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 have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer to join Team Recognize, a cross-functional team responsible for our Shoutouts product. Shoutouts foster a culture of recognition among our customers by facilitating the easy exchange of daily accolades within chat platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams.
For the remainder of the year, Team Recognize will concentrate on several key initiatives. These include launching on Microsoft Teams, conducting experiments to activate more managers, and introducing reporting tools for people leaders.
Software Engineering at Culture Amp is an inclusive practice distributed across cross-functional, lightweight Agile teams, which are remote-friendly, and embrace flexible work arrangements. You’ll be surrounded by other talented engineers, the team is composed of senior engineers, a product manager, and a designer all working in unison to reach shared goals.
In part of this team of amazing humans,
You will
- Write clean, scalable, testable code and love working as a Full-Stack Engineer
- Share knowledge from your team with other engineers via documentation, blogpost, brown bags etc.
- Coach other developers in the team - you love to share your knowledge
- Collaborate with other engineers in your team through pair programming, writing solution designs, and providing feedback on pull requests, to build shared understanding of your work
- Partner with other engineers across teams to understand how changes you make positively impact their domains
- Maintain and support the services your team is responsible for. Ensure our systems are secure, observe and understand services in production, and refactor and improve existing code to assist our customers
You have
- Experience with Ruby and React, or other modern programming languages
- You have experience in building web-based software applications, and you understand fundamental engineering concepts, scalability, security, and maintenance
- Experience/knowledge of AWS (highly desirable not essential)
- You have experience evolving existing systems to make them simpler, more observable, and more maintainable
You are
- Someone who loves collaboration - our teams are cross functional and you’ll be working with other engineers, delivery leads and product managers to deliver great outcomes together
- Keen to learn from those around you and also love to share you knowledge with the team, you have a growth mind-set
- You’re aligned with our values, check them out here: https://www.cultureamp.com/company#values and demonstrate them through your working practice
- 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
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.