Senior Full Stack Engineer
Published on November 04, 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 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.
For more information visit cultureamp.com.
We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Team Review Cycles. This team is close to completing the rebuild of a major part of our Performance product, using a more adaptable domain model and a modern tech stack that includes Next.js, TailwindCSS, Storybook, Ruby on Rails, Temporal, Postgres, and AWS Aurora Serverless.
As a member of this team, you’ll play a key role in pushing our rebuild through its final stages by leveraging established patterns and processes and helping the team execute on its current mission. After the rebuild wraps up in Q4, the team will shift its focus to rapid product innovation/iteration, giving you the chance to be part of an exciting new chapter in our Perform product journey.
As a Senior Engineer on this team you can expect to:
- Tackle a wide variety of technical problems across our new codebase as you build features and help us move to a distributed and event-driven architecture.
- Collaborate with other engineers through pair programming, authoring solution designs, or giving feedback on pull requests to build shared understanding of your work.
- Work with product managers and designers to understand customer problems and help develop, refine, and implement solutions.
- Be on call, maintain, and support the services the team is responsible for.
- Ensure our dependencies are up-to-date, observe and understand services in production, refactor code, and attend to issues raised by our customers.
- Maintain the exceptional standards of craftsmanship and excellence already established within the team, including maintaining extremely high code coverage, ensuring zero warnings/errors/exceptions on production, and a continuous improvement/innovation/learning mindset.
This job is for you if:
- You have solid fundamentals and are a T-shaped developer with a backend focus. You’re experienced in building web-based software applications and have a good understanding of cloud architecture patterns.
- You are proficient in Ruby or are willing to learn. Bonus points if you have experience with Ruby on Rails, but it's not a requirement.
- You want to contribute to the technical success and culture of the team as a whole, through excellent code, software design, improving practices, and influencing our ways of working
- You’re product-focused, value progress over perfection, and always pursue to make a solid business impact
- You understand the value of test-driven development and know how and when to add the right type of tests
- 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.
- 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.
- You are able to technically mentor/guide other engineers on the team
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.
Please keep reading...
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.
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.