SafetyCulture is hiring a

SWE II Fullstack Engineer - Backend

Sydney, Australia
Full-Time
At SafetyCulture, we help businesses get better everyday. 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, Scalable and Event-Driven Architecture to name a few, but we believe there’s more to be done.  

Recently valued at AU$2.7Bn, 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 that value collaboration, growth and learning to join our team. 

The tech stack

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


The role

This role is for our Reporting team. As reporting is one of the highly used functionality  in our SC platform, you’ll encounter exciting technical challenges as we continue to scale. Your role will involve designing and implementing new features to address challenges around discoverability and usability, ensuring our reporting experiences are intuitive, efficient, and impactful for our customers.


You’ll be empowered to build fast paced product experiments, make complex architecture decisions and drive change. You’ll own the delivery of practical solutions to solve real-world reporting needs for customers, with the knowledge that what you build has an immediate positive impact.


You will 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, server driven UI, micro frontend 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 a co-located 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

  • Experience in back-end development, particularly with Go and gRPC apps.
  • Willingness to expand into front-end development, including learning React, and UI testing frameworks.
  • Keen to learn to take ownership of complex feature delivery, including breaking down requirements, providing accurate time estimates, and actively engaging in team planning and discussions.
  • Skill in evaluating trade-offs between effort and impact, involving team members to make informed decisions based on the pros and cons of different approaches.
  • Collaboration with Product Managers, Designers, and Quality Engineers to drive effective solutions.
  • Contribute to uplift team performance through feedback, understanding customer pain points, and applying broader context to improve work.
  • Ability to demonstrate SafetyCulture values (Think Customer, Open Honest Always, Better as a Team, Be Bold Bring Action)

Desirable Skills

  • Experience generating customized PDF, Word, and Excel reports.
  • Knowledge-sharing capabilities.
  • Some level of experience with on-call production support, ensuring operational stability, monitoring production logs, analyzing web performance, and user event data, handling migration from legacy technology, managing feature flags, and ensuring the operational health of systems.
  • Experience with key/value store and relational databases (e.g. DynamoDB, Postgres, MySQL)
  • Building and running SaaS or cloud services at scale

More than a Job!

  • Equity with high growth potential, and a competitive salary;
  • Hybrid working, we encourage you to create the best work blend while working from your home and the local SafetyCulture office;
  • Access to professional and personal training and development opportunities; 
  • Hackathons, Workshops, Lunch & Learns;
  • We encourage involvement in the community, open source work, attending talks and events, and experimenting with new technologies.

Office Benefits

  • In-house Culinary Crew serving up daily breakfast, lunch and snacks;
  • Barista coffee machine, craft beer on tap, boutique wines and a range of non-alcoholic beverages;
  • Quarterly celebrations and team events;
  • Table tennis, board games, books library, and pet-friendly office.

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

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

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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