Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Foundations

Sydney, NSW
Permanent
Full-time

1 month ago

SafetyCulture is a global technology company that is helping to transform workplaces around the world. After witnessing the tragedy of workplace incidents as a private investigator, SafetyCulture Founder Luke Anear recruited a team to help him develop a mobile solution for frontline workers. What we have created is a market-leading workplace operations platform that helps give teams the knowledge, tools, and confidence they need to meet higher standards, work safely, and improve every day.SafetyCulture is among the fastest-growing tech companies in Australia. Its bold ambition is to reach 100 million users worldwide by 2032. Opportunities to be part of a journey like this do not come around often.What do SafetyCulture Engineers do?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.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.This role is part of our Best Fit job match program. We have a variety of Software Engineering roles, by applying to this role will be considered for multiple roles across our engineering teams. We want to set you up for success in your role so we assess your capabilities and then match you up to the best team.In this role you can expect to:

Design, build, and operate large-scale SaaS and cloud services, including distributed systems and data stores. Use a tech stack that includes AWS, Golang, PostgreSQL, as well as datastore designs, data warehousing, and distributed systems.
Provide technical leadership, guiding architecture, execution, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver impactful outcomes. Own feature delivery from end-to-end, including breaking down requirements with stakeholders, liaising with our product and design teams, assisting other engineers, and ensuring successful delivery
Drive high-performance team outcomes by setting rigorous engineering standards, mentoring peers, and proactively improving team practices to enhance quality, velocity, and collaboration.
Bring a user-centric mindset, even in platform-facing work, ensuring that engineering decisions ultimately drive better user experiences.
Apply a practical understanding of AI technologies, identifying opportunities to leverage machine learning or automation to enhance platform capabilities and user outcomes.
Work in a hybrid working environment, including at our HQ based in Surry Hills, Sydney
Demonstrate SafetyCulture's values (Think Customer, Open Honest Always, Better as a Team, Be Bold Bring Action)

You may be a great fit for this role if you have some of the following:

A strong track record of engineering excellence in user management, identity, and access systems, supported by deep expertise in back-end programming languages and frameworks; prior experience with Golang is highly desirable.
Designed user and admin experiences that simplify complex access models, with a deep understanding of IAM concepts like authentication, authorisation, RBAC, SCIM, SAML, OAuth2, and OIDC, including tools and providers.
Built or scaled permission systems across distributed or multi-tenant architectures.
Applied best practices in identity security, including MFA, session management, and audit logging.
Collaborated across teams to ensure consistent identity and access patterns.
Familiarity with enterprise compliance standards like SOC 2.

What Do I Get Access To When Working at SafetyCulture?

Equity with high growth potential, and a competitive salary.
Access to professional and personal training and development opportunities.
Participation in hackathons, workshops, and lunch & learn sessions.
Community involvement, open source work, attending talks and events, and experimenting with new technologies

We're committed to 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 , the and the .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 youYou can find out more about life at SafetyCulture via , , and .To all recruitment agencies, we do not accept resumes or partnership opportunities. Please do not forward resumes to SafetyCulture or any of our employees. We are not responsible for any fees associated with unsolicited resumes.

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