About the Role
Role details below.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and platform components with a focus on long-term quality and scalability
- Lead technical design for complex features; make and document architectural decisions
- Drive improvements to existing systems — scalability, reliability, and eliminating technical debt
- Mentor teammates and raise team capabilities through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate across teams to align on technical direction and ensure consistency
- Operate and support the software you build; improve operational practices
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience building backend software, with strong proficiency in C#
- Deep experience with Kubernetes (deploying, operating, and troubleshooting containerized workloads)
- Strong experience with SQL and relational databases, including performance optimization
- Advanced understanding of software fundamentals (API design, System Design, Testing Strategies, Distributed Systems)
- Track record of building, operating, and improving production systems at scale
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions
Nice to Have
- Experience with Go (or strong interest in learning)
- Experience with React or frontend development
- Deep familiarity with container tooling, cloud-native systems, or CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Argo CD or GitOps workflows
- Background in developer tools, platforms, or infrastructure products
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives
Benefits
- Remote-first working environment since 2015
- Transparent approach to compensation ensuring equal pay for equal work
- Well-defined career pathways
- Supportive, collaborative, and high-trust environment
- Leaders engage in open communication during all-hands calls and 1:1s
- Humane on-call that respects your time
- Results-oriented culture: iterate quickly, ship value, change direction based on data
- Collaborative problem-solving with passion, pragmatism, and empathy
- End-to-end ownership from code to production
Additional Information
- Company founded in Australia in 2012, now with over 300 employees globally
- Revenue has grown 20–50% annually for the past 9 years
- Profitable for 10 out of the past 12 years
- Interviews and onboarding conducted virtually
- Public handbook available detailing how the company works
- Focus on agency and influence — candidates should operate like owners
- Candidates should take initiative, drive direction, and identify high-impact problems
- Expectation to turn ambiguity into clarity for the team
- Ownership of outcomes and setting standards
- Bias toward act
