Staff Engineer

How you can help make a better world of work

We have an exciting opportunity for a Staff Engineer to join our Report Sharing team. The team is responsible for building and maintaining the report creation and sharing functions in our Engage platform, as well as the underlying services that support them. This role is a key part of enabling us to scale as we are helping improve the world of work from 25 million to over 100 million people globally.

You will be joining a well established cross-functional 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. The team will also be working on establishing a scalable roles and permissions system within the Engage Camp.

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 Staff 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.
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and leads to develop, communicate, and execute technical strategies that benefit both the team and the wider camp.
• Collaborate with external teams to resolve issues and devise solutions.
• Stay involved in the details of the systems that power our products by contributing directly to technical designs and code.
• Hold yourself and your teammates to high engineering standards.
• Leverage your experience and knowledge to grow your teammates’ technical breadth and depth through direct coaching and mentoring.
• Provide support to maintain the application successfully by resolving operational issues.

You have

• Multiple years of experience leading large-scale software systems with cross-functional teams while maintaining high-quality delivery.
• Drive and experience in identifying, aligning and landing optimal solutions in a system with many moving parts.
• The ability to design and build creative solutions to complex problems.
• A strong track record in helping other engineers grow.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement of the team's software based on user feedback, operational insights, and post-mortems, as well as guide the team in implementing permanent fixes for long-standing issues.

Technology we use and teach

• Kotlin, TypeScript, Ruby, Next.js
• AWS
• HTTP, JSON, Avro, REST
• Mongo, Postgres, Kafka, Distributed systems
• Datadog, Buildkite

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.