Senior Engineer
Published on August 31, 2024
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About Envato
We exist to empower creatives to thrive independently and as a community. We work to be the must-have, most used, intelligent and essential creative companion where we empower creatives to create freely and confidently, and accelerate their everyday creative process however and wherever they work.
We proudly support the lives of creative pros all over the world, from web developers and graphic designers, to marketers, videographers, photographers and more. We’ve built a community where anyone can get their creative projects done, and where creators bring their ideas to life and in the process, earn a living doing what they love. Our mission is to be the singular destination for creative assets. It doesn’t get much better than that!
We are a global and rapidly scaling business. Blending purpose and profit, we're a passionate B Corp, committed to making a positive impact on the communities we engage in. You can read more about our purpose, mission and values on our website.
We’re leaders in flexibility and have embraced ways of working to encourage this for a long time. Where we can, let’s make work, work for you! Our roles can be based ANYWHERE in Australia or New Zealand, and while we all mostly work from home we’re proud of how we keep our global team connected.
About the Role:
We’re seeking a collaborative Senior Engineer for a team working on key initiatives. In this role, you'll work with stakeholders and engineers to design and implement solutions that balance quality, cost, time, and maintainability. You'll collaborate with the team and Lead Engineer to prioritise work, simplify solutions, and deliver business value, while ensuring high-quality, well-tested code. Additionally, you'll mentor engineers, delegate tasks to empower the team, and support the growth of yourself and others.
You will be joining a front end team working on making new content visible on Elements, our flagship product. While most of your work will focus on front end development, you'll also help maintain existing code and collaborate with teams across the Search and Content Domain to drive success.
Elements is our subscription-based digital asset platform offering a vast library of creative resources to empower designers and creatives to do their best work and to bring their creative ideas to life!
What you'll be doing:
- Writing clean, well thought out and reliable code.
- Actively contribute to identifying and mitigating risks.
- Working as a member of a small cross-functional team, containing members with different skills and experience.
- Sharing your knowledge and helping your teammates to learn and grow.
- Working on strategic initiatives, tactical improvements and maintenance.
- Seeking to better understand and deliver value to your users.
- Taking ownership. Caring about the quality and impact of the systems you build and maintain.
About you:
- You likely have 5+ years of web and/or software development experience.
- You have experience with React or a similar framework like Vue or Angular.
- You are proficient in Ruby on Rails or an equivalent framework, such as Python with Django.
- You are comfortable working with front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and JSON.
- You have experience with cloud infrastructure platforms (e.g., Terraform, Cloudflare, AWS), with openness to other platforms as well.
- You value learning from others, no matter their experience level, and seek constructive feedback.
- Collaboration is important to you, and you thrive in a team where everyone shares ownership and works together to solve problems.
- You believe in the value of test driven development and clean, easily maintained code.
- You are comfortable sharing knowledge, up-skilling and mentoring others.
- You are risk-conscious and understand the importance of following our best practices to keep our community safe and secure.
Some of the great things we offer
• We are a remote business with full flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need - outcomes are what’s important to us.
• We provide MacBook Pros or HP’s for you to do your best work, as well as all your initial and ongoing tech setup to suit your individual needs.
• It’s important you love your home office so we will provide a contribution towards your set up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs.
• Want to expand your family? We will support you! We offer 20 weeks paid primary carer leave (with super paid on top for the first 12 months); and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave.
• Connection is so important in a remote business. That’s why we provide you with an annual allowance to meet up with colleagues and share some food and a laugh.
• Continuous improvement is encouraged and we provide an annual budget for you to put towards your learning.
• We know our product is awesome so we will provide you with a free Envato Elements subscription for your side gigs and/or personal use.
• Your wellbeing is paramount and we provide access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health.
Our culture
• We are B Corp certified & believe in succeeding sustainably as one global team.
• We are leaders in flexible working and really walk the talk - our work from anywhere benefit allows you to work and travel for up to 3 months in another country. We have also removed standard hours from contracts to empower our people to work in a way that makes sense to them.
• We support working parents through a range of initiatives, including being a proud partner with Grace Papers.
• As part of our values and vision, Envato contributes 2% of profits to charities in each of the three main countries we operate in.
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