Senior Engineer - Perform - Performance Cycles

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Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

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How you can help make a better world of work

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer to join our Performance Data team. Our team has been building upon our engineering groups existing patterns and processes, looking to make them best-in-class. The team itself will be leading how we think about Performance data as a product, as well as building and evolving our core Performance product. The team is responsible for several domains, including Capture where our customers write their Manager Reviews and Peer Feedback for Performance Review Cycles.

As a Senior Engineer in the Performance Data team:

You will be responsible for maintaining and improving our camp’s data related processes.
There is a strong emphasis on quality of the solutions we implement to keep our data’s integrity and support our downstream consumers - both inside and outside of the Perform Camp.
You will be working closely with other engineers in a collaborative environment, and be a technical mentor to other engineers within the team.
You will be required to understand product requirements and be able to design and communicate an effective solution, leading other engineers through the implementation by pair/mob programming, writing solution designs, or giving feedback on pull requests, to build shared understanding of your work.
Tackle a wide variety of technical problems across our codebases as you build features and help us move to a distributed and event-driven architecture.
Maintain and support the services your team is responsible for.
This job is for you if:

You have experience in building web-based software applications, as well as knowledge of cloud architecture patterns. We are after an individual with commercial experience with Ruby on Rails.
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 seek to understand and solve customer problems. You think about how your work – at all levels – impacts our customers and improves their experience.
Your process involves documenting your work. You write code that is consistent, maintainable, and understood by your teammates.
Alongside Ruby on Rails proficiency, you are experienced TypeScript and React (or are willing to learn)
Experience working with Event Driven Architecture, specifically Kafka, is beneficial
You’re 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.
We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:

Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
MacBooks for you to do your best a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US UK only)
Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it.


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