Senior Software Engineer

Who Gives a Crap; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A purpose-led eco-friendly company in Melbourne seeks a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the digital experience. The ideal candidate will mentor others while solving complex problems across the tech stack. Company values social impact and offers competitive salaries, good healthcare support, and generous leave policies.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous paid leave

Learning and development opportunities

Free toilet paper

Qualifications

• Several years experience working as a Senior Software Engineer.
• A love for the technical side of the role and wish to grow as an Engineer.
• Comfortable working across the technology stack including backend and frontend.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-quality maintainable code.
• Lead and mentor teammates.
• Engage with stakeholders and contribute to organisational improvements.

Skills

Ecommerce knowledge

Mentoring and coaching

Problem-solving

Full-stack development

Job description

Not all heroes wear capes — but plenty of them use toilet paper

Want to challenge yourself at a purpose-led scale up AND make a difference in the world? Come join the revolootion!

Funny name, serious business

We make eco-friendly products and donate 50% of our profits to provide clean water and help build toilets for the billions of people who lack proper access. So far, we’ve contributed over $13.3 million AUD (~$8.9 million USD) to fund sanitation projects around the globe. Basically, we’re really good at doing good.

With hubs in Australia, the Philippines, China, the US, UK and Europe, our amazing team of 200+ work to make the biggest possible impact for people and the planet. Over the next couple of years, we’re hoping to increase our annual donation tenfold to get us closer to our dream of everyone in the world having access to clean water and sanitation services.

A bit about the role

We are on the lookout for our next Senior Software Engineer!

The purpose of this role is to help us scale the business by ensuring we deliver a seamless and delightful digital experience, always.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will drive high-quality maintainable code, efficient testing, and follow industry best practices to help us deliver our toilet puns. You will actively lead and mentor teammates, fostering a culture of clear communication, feedback, and knowledge sharing while balancing strategic thinking and goal-oriented execution. You will navigate risk, prioritise tasks, and ensure alignment with business objectives while engaging with stakeholders and contributing to organisational improvements.

If you worked here this past month here are some things you might have been involved in

• Migration of Shopify Features: Where it benefits our users, we migrate to the latest Shopify features to leverage their managed infrastructure.
• Launching New Products: You may have seen that Who Gives a Crap just launched Garbage Bags; this was a large project for the entire business, Digital Product included.
• Customized Experiences: While our foundation is native Shopify, we also enhance User Experience with bespoke customer flows, recently including a React-based Limited Edition Upgrade flow that supports configurable discounts. On the lighter side we recently built a React-based Fart Machine!
• Expanding Serverless API: We recently expanded our Serverless API capabilities using Google Cloud Run, Buildpack and Typescript Express.
• Tech Strategy: Our Digital Product team is ever growing and evolving and our tech strategy is a document that keeps on moving. It takes the entire Digital Product team to keep our strategy up to date and you’d be a big part of that.
• Testing and QA Automation: We’re really good at shipping features, but we always strive to be even better. We are currently building out automation to ensure that we ship even fewer bugs.

Let’s talk about you

You will see yourself as a seasoned Senior Software Engineer who is connected to their tech stack and always learning about what’s changing and moving in the ecommerce and frontend development space. You see yourself as an excellent mentor for developers of all experience and take a hands-on approach to lifting the expertise of everyone around you.

You enjoy solving complex problems and are able to resolve complicated issues independently while taking an MVP-and-iterate approach to prove your hypothesis. You will always be thinking, learning and presenting new ideas that could change our business and contribute to the Digital Product Engineering strategy.

What else will you bring to the team…

• Several years experience working as a Senior Software Engineer.
• A love for the technical side of the role and wish to grow as an Engineer.
• The ability to work on all different parts of the technology stack. Backend, frontend, infrastructure. You are not perfect in all, but you are comfortable with each layer.
• Mentoring, Coaching, and Pairing is almost a second language to you. We work very collaboratively, and this role will build on that.

Nike to have…

• Bonus points for some experience working in the ecommerce space. This may include working with Shopify or other Ecommerce platforms.

You give a crap

Do you want your work to make the world a better place? Do you want to work with other people who feel the same way? What a coincidence — us too!

Why should you work with us?

First off, as a certified B Corp, we work to make a difference every day while maintaining the highest standards of social and environmental impact. With our most recent score of 125.5 we’re in very good company with other exceptional B Corps around the world.

We also believe that helping to make the world a better place should be rewarded accordingly – that’s why we offer competitive, market informed salaries, meaningful support towards healthcare for our team around the world, generous paid leave, tailored learning and development opportunities, and free toilet paper (yes, you read that right).

Our engagement surveys tell us that our team is really proud (98%) to work for Who Gives A Crap and, we could not be more proud of that.

Have you made it this far?

If you’re still reading, we think there’s a strong chance you might be our kind of person. Here’s the thing, though — research suggests that 60% of women and underrepresented folks might have already talked themselves out of applying. Even if you don’t check every box above, we want to encourage you to introduce yourself. We believe a diversity of perspectives and experiences makes a team stronger — and the stronger our team, the closer we are to delivering toilets and clean water for all.

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