Senior Backend Engineer - Permissions

At SafetyCulture, we help businesses get better every day. As the operational heartbeat of working teams, our technology gives workers a voice and leaders the visibility to make smart decisions. We’re constantly evolving our platform, expanding into sensors/IoT, Machine Learning, Scalable and Event-Driven Architecture to name a few, but we believe there’s more to be done.

Our mission – and your opportunity — is to help solve the challenges faced in an increasingly distributed workforce. In short, to shape Engineering excellence, nurture emerging Engineering talent and build out an inclusive, high-performing interdisciplinary team. 

With the goal to have 100 million workers using our products every day, we’re investing our resources into creating and shaping a better workplace for all. We are growing fast and looking for talented, self-motivated people who value collaboration, growth and learning to join our team.

The tech stack

We use a modern technology stack including Swift/Kotlin/C++ (mobile); React.js (front end); Go/node.js (back end); AWS/Kafka/Kubernetes (infrastructure) 

The role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be empowered to manage complex architectural decisions and drive change. You’ll own the delivery of practical solutions to solve real-world problems for customers, with the knowledge that what you build has an immediate positive impact.

You’ll face exciting technical challenges as we scale, and be an integral part of the engineering team. High-performing teams here own their services, and you’re trusted to build and run a system that serves hundreds of thousands of users while transforming it into a system that will serve millions of users in the near future. We empower engineers to learn new skills and use technology to solve customer problems, including initiatives in IoT, machine learning, and event-driven architecture.

How you can have an impact

Be recognised as an expert in relevant technologies to the role, and have influence over the direction of the team and function. Improve others’ ability to deliver great work and drive initiatives focused on release-safety, repeatability, and improving the way we do things. Mentor colleagues, actively engage in building a culture of candid feedback, and help the engineering teams give and receive constructive feedback. We encourage involvement in the community, open source work, attending talks and events, and experimenting with new technologies.

The teams

In Sydney we have teams developing and supporting our SaaS platform, working on extending the functionality and longer term strategic bets, including real-time incident reporting, analytics, and IoT. Each team has an engineering manager, product manager, designer, direct access to customers, and support from specialists in quality, SRE and specific technologies. Check out some of the things we’ve been doing in our blog.

Essential Skills

• Deep knowledge of a back-end coding language (preferably Golang) and related frameworks.
• Ability to own the delivery of complex features, break down requirements, and provide estimates.
• Experience with complex authorization systems, particularly at scale.
• Proven experience in managing and executing system migrations.
• Demonstrates company values like customer focus, honesty, teamwork, and boldness.

Desirable Skills

• Authorization Knowledge: Familiarity with Google's Zanzibar paper, and authorization at scale.
• SaaS/Cloud Services: Experience in building and running SaaS or cloud services at scale
• Architectural Knowledge: Experience with service-oriented/microservice architectures.
• Database Experience: Working with key/value stores (e.g., DynamoDB) and relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL).
• Leadership: Experience working in a technical leadership capacity.
• User-Centric Vision: A user-centric vision, even in a platform-facing role, is a plus.

At SafetyCulture, we care about people and growing the team. Here’s a few ways we’re acting on our values

• Flexible working arrangements. We encourage you to create the best work blend while working from your home and the local SafetyCulture office
• You’ll have access to professional and personal training and development opportunities 
• We’re a pet friendly workplace 
• Hackathons - if you’re into them :) 
• Workshops and Lunch & Learns from our leadership and industry experts
• We also encourage you to get involved in the community, open source work, attending talks and events, and experimenting with new technologies; whatever floats your boat!

But wait, there’s more... You’ll also receive other perks such as:

• Equity with high growth potential, and a competitive salary
• Great food! On office days, we'll serve up a healthful lunch catering to all dietary requirements, as well as unlimited snacks to keep you going through the day
• Love coffee or tea? Our commercial espresso machine has you covered. We also have beer and wine, a basketball court, board games, movie theatre, and books library
• Wellbeing is key! We offer initiatives such as subsidised fitness programs, EAP services and generous parental leave policy
• Last but not least, we celebrate quarterly and our teams love the annual ShipIt global offsite

At SafetyCulture, we’re committed to building inclusive teams and cultivating a sense of belonging so our people can bring their whole authentic selves to work each day. We seek to make reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process to create an even playing field for all candidates. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the entire SafetyCulture team we’ve built an incredible culture which has seen us recognised as a Best Place to Work in Australia, the US and the UK. 

You can find out more about life at SafetyCulture via Youtube, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Even if you don't meet every requirement listed in the ad, please consider applying for this role. We prioritise inclusion and value individuals with potential over a checklist of qualifications. Don't rule yourself out, hit that apply button if this job resonates with you.

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