Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. Not all heroes wear capes but plenty of them use toilet paper. Want to challenge yourself at a purposeled scale up and make a difference in the world? Come join the revolution! We make ecofriendly 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, weve contributed over $13.3 million AUD (roughly $8.9 million USD) to fund sanitation projects around the globe. Basically, were really good at doing good. With hubs in Australia, the Philippines, China, the US, the 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, were 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, youll be driving highquality maintainable code, efficient testing, and following 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 also balancing strategic thinking and goaloriented execution. In this role 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 We Give a Crap just launched Garbage Bags, 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 Reactbased Limited Edition Upgrade flow that supports configurable discounts. On the lighter side we recently built a Reactbased 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 would be a big part of that. Testing and QA Automation: Were building out automation to ensure that we ship even less bugs. Lets talk about you You will see yourself as a seasoned Senior Software Engineer who is connected to his/her tech stack and always learning about whats 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 handson 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 MVPanditerate 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. Expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript. Mentoring, coaching, and pairing is almost a second language to you. We work very collaboratively, and this role will build on that. Nice 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 were 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 thats why we offer competitive, marketinformed 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 (thanks Culture Amp!) tell us that our team is really proud (98%) to work for We Give a Crap and, well, we couldnt be more proud of that. Have you made it this far? If youre still reading, we think theres a strong chance you might be our kind of person. Heres the thing, though research suggests that 60% of women and underrepresented folks might have already talked themselves out of applying. Even if you dont 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Senior Software Engineer