What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineer - Engage - Report Sharing position at Culture Amp?
How you can help make a better world of work
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer to join Team Report Sharing.The team is responsible for building and maintaining the report generation and sharing capabilities within our Engage platform, along with the supporting services. Our mission is to provide a seamless sharing experience for our customers empowering them to make better actions and informed decisions. The more access organisations and employees have to the powerful insights which describe what is happening in an organisation, and why - the more likely it is that positive action and change can be created, creating better ways of working for all of our customers.This role is a key part of enabling us to scale from helping improve the world of work for 25 million to 100 million people.
This is a well established team that is currently working on extracting our frontend and backend processes out of our monolith and into domain based, event-driven services, while building out new impactful features for our customers.
As part of the Engage Camp, you will have the support of a group of experienced technical leaders who are already leveraging areas such as serverless, event sourcing and distributed event-driven services to evolve our overall technical architecture.
What you'll bring to Culture Amp
As a Senior Engineer, you will be driving technical conversations, providing technical suggestions, making decisions and collaborating with engineers and stakeholders in the company. You will be responsible for bringing features from conception all the way through to owning them in production. You will own the software life cycle in our platform, focusing on code quality, best practices, monitoring, logging, and alerting. You will have opportunities to amplify your impact by pairing up with engineers from other teams, collaborating with our fantastic designers, attending external customer meetings, and contributing to our code base, which is used by other engineers.
You will:
- Work closely with other engineers to build, maintain and enhance our services following industry best practices
- Work with product teams, design teams and end users to understand their needs/requirements/problems and then work to develop, refine, slice, implement and measure the impact of the solution.
- Collaborate with other engineers in the team through pair programming, writing solution designs, or giving feedback on pull requests, to build a shared understanding of the work.
- Drive technical conversations, provide technical suggestions and make decisions as a team
You have:
- Strong programming skills. Experience with a backend programming language e.g. Ruby or Kotlin preferred
- Experience with Frontend languages React/Next.js would be advantageous but not essential (a willingness to learn if no experience with FE languages)
- Flexibility to work across the stack
- Experience with Postgres
- Experience with or knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architecture
- Experience building reliable, scalable, complex software applications
- Familiarity with logging, monitoring and alerts in services
- AWS experience, CDK and CI/CD skills
You are:
- 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 are 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 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.
It’s not expected that any single candidate would check every box here — what’s important is that you arrive with a strong set of fundamentals, and that you’re committed to building the skills you’ll need to do great work.
