Senior Software Engineer — Full-Stack, Front-End & Back-End
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Senior Software Engineer
📍SYDNEY, Australia (REMOTE POSSIBLE)
Ahead of some big initiatives in 2022, we're expanding our Engineering teams with talented and dedicated Mid, Senior and Staff/Lead Engineers, across full-stack, back-end and front-end disciplines. This is a great opportunity for someone like-minded to join us – if this could be you,
read on!
Our mission
At Qwilr we're on a mission to revolutionise what web documents can do. To do this, we are creating a sophisticated platform upon which to innovate with data and web technology.
Qwilr Engineering has been on a wonderful journey over the past year-and-a-bit since I moved from Atlassian. We've transitioned from monoliths to micro-services, pursued cloud-native distributed architecture designed to stand the test of time and scale, and have aggressively replaced old technology. And just as importantly, we've grown a sense of identity and purpose along the way as we seek balanced clarity across our disciplines.
If you want a combination of making an outsized impact, learning world-class Cloud Engineering and working in a great culture that values your voice and balance, we look forward to hearing from you. With your help, our best work is ahead of us!
Why join Qwilr?
- We're a B2B SaaS company with thousands of customers across the world that love our product (a 40+ NPS)
- As a Series A start-up (with ongoing, active investment interest) of ~50 people, you'll be able to join a non-bureaucratic, close-knit company, with lots of opportunity for growth and impact
- Our growth is accelerating, across our customers, technology and organisation, so we need your help!
- Our technology stack is cloud-native - no legacy systems to deal with and we own all our IP
- We care a great deal about our culture. We will always be a diverse and respectful workplace, caring with open and honest communication, that begins with the Founders on down
- We really do work as one big team, seeking to be successful together. You can find out more about Our Principles and Ways of Working below.
⚡️What we're working on
- Building out our distributed architecture to scale our product and support a growing Engineering org. There are many designs and decisions still to be made!
- An integrated data pipeline and architecture for analytics, telemetry and events, for customers and internal use (perhaps you also want to check out our Staff Data Engineer position?)
- An external integrations platform for developers, CRMs and other automation use-cases, that will connect Qwilr into customers' workflows, their constellation of tools, and enable what they couldn't do before
- Continuing to improve our market-leading collateral capabilities (this example and the very page you're reading!) to give businesses the tools they need to sell their services and close more deals
😍 ️About you
- You're talented, humble and empathetic
- You love teamwork. You enjoy collaborating with others, in and outside of Engineering, to achieve something greater than any of us can alone
- You can also work independently, to reliably deliver your part of the puzzle! 🧩
- You're pragmatic in your approach to engineering problems, knowing there are always trade-offs and different times for different approaches
- You care about building and operating reliable, scalable, maintainable systems and you care about the overall customer experience
- You're always learning, keen to hone your craft and improve your team
- You want to work on, and have a say in, a product that can meaningfully impact people's businesses, across the world
🏗️ As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
- Be involved with shaping and implementing major product features, with other Engineers, Product Managers, Designers and folks across the company
- Work on platforms that will be our scalable, robust and extensible technology foundation. This will involve distributed architecture (data + microservices), new technologies and refining our practices for testing, deployment and ops
- Have the opportunity to lead the delivery of projects and learn those extra soft skills needed to take your engineering career to another level
- Teach others what you know and collaborate for the best solution
- Learn what's important to our customers — by participating in customer calls, measurement through analytics, etc. — to help us serve them and win in our market
- Be skilled in our tech stack (or equivalent, from your experience):
- React, TypeScript, Node.js
- MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Druid, Redis
- Kafka, Elasticsearch, Honeycomb, Prometheus
- All things K8s and AWS
Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other folks in minority groups tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit. You can find more about diversity and inclusion at Qwilr here.
At Qwilr, we've packaged up the perfect way to create documents: amazing, design-perfect pages, which anyone can create.
They come with payment, e-sign, easy integration into your CRM, and all the other functionality you wish your old PDF documents had.
We have made a beautiful product that solves customers' needs, and that in turn has made us a strong business, with a multi-million dollar ARR, consistent growth and incredibly low churn.
It's now time for us to scale this growth and we want you to come and be part of it.
About us (& perks)
- Qwilr is remote-friendly and supports flexible working arrangements. This was before COVID, so you know it won't change!
- We have a modern, characterful office in Redfern, Sydney, that most of us attend a few days each week (we also have an office in Denver, Colorado, in case you find yourself Stateside? 🤷🏼♀️)
- We value focussed work and endeavour to have meeting-free days to get things done, and "Bonsai Days" each quarter to scratch a technical or product itch
- Optional BYOD computer with a yearly company allowance
- Competitive salary and ESOP
- Budget for your home and/or office setup
- $1000 - 2500 for further education, conferences and books
- Company-wide global retreats each year (to be resumed post COVID!)
- Charity donations matching and volunteering days off
- And at Qwilr, you'll get to do challenging, rewarding work in a supportive environment with smart and dedicated colleagues
Interested?
We'd love to hear from you.