What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineer 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 Reporting Services. The team takes care of services that power the reporting features in our flagship engagement product. We've been busy pulling in reporting data from around the organisation, and now we're updating our service architecture to ensure reporting services scale as we grow.
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 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:
- 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, preferably in Kotlin/Java
- Experience with Postgres, Redis, Kafka
- Experience with AWS, CDK, CI/CD
- Experience designing, building and maintaining backend services (ideally data-intensive backend services)
- Experience with or knowledge of distributed systems and event-driven architecture
You are:
- Someone who values empathy and kindness.
- Someone who collaborates with others to solve challenging problems.
- Someone who continuously learns to improve their code and craft.
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.
