Job Description
Brief overview of this role:
We are looking for a full-stack software engineer to join our supportive and collaborative engineering team.
This role would be great for you if you are looking for more technical authority and autonomy with your work. Maybe you’ve worked in startups or had your startup that has finished up, and you want to join a team that moves very quickly and places a huge emphasis on product and engineering. Maybe you don’t have quite as many years of experience as others, but think you would do well at taking on more responsibility. Your background and years of experience are less important than your enthusiasm and willingness to grow into a more responsible role where you can make a meaningful impact.
You will have the opportunity to be a part of a small internal team working on greenfield projects and experimentation. You will have direct engagement, collaboration and communication with our Head of Product, CTO and CEO.
Employment:
- Full-time
- Based: Remote
- Remuneration (Including Super): AUD $75,000 - 140,000 pending your level of experience
- With Sitemate's diverse blend of remote and city-based team members, we ensure fair compensation regardless of your location. Our approach is informed by data sourced from Numbeo, the world’s largest cost-of-living database, which helps us maintain consistent remuneration standards across various regions.
- Through our Cost of Living Multiplier, based on Numbeo's findings, we provide guidelines for adjusting salaries to reflect the cost of living in different cities. This ensures that all team members enjoy comparable living standards, no matter where they are based.
Why should I consider joining Sitemate?
- We have equal opportunity for applicants of all genders, ethnicities, ages, sexualities & people with disabilities - Sitemate's team is proudly diverse and accessible. 55% of our team identify as coming from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds. 43% identify as female. Our team ranges in age from 22 to 51 years old.
- We're proud to have a global team with team members from Australia, Kenya, Brazil, France, Chile, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Vietnam, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, USA, Canada, Indonesia, Venezuela, Sri Lanka, and Uruguay. You will have flexible working options - our team is a blend of fully remote and hub offices. People based in hub cities typically work in the office 2-3 days per week.
- Check out Sitemate’s team at the 2022 Offsite: Sitemate Offsite 2022
- And recently at our 2023 Offsite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aNwLDdrGWs
- You can see what people really think about working at Sitemate here: Working at Sitemate
- Listen to CEO Hartley Pike speak about the company’s founding and broader Go To Market strategy: Unleashing your Zilla with Hartley Pike, co-founder of Sitemate
- Listen to CTO Tim Bray speak about building high quality features that solve customer problems at Sitemate: Building High Quality Features That Solve Customer Problems at SiteMate
- You will be remunerated based on your performance. If you are performing well, you won’t need to wait 3 years or have to find better offers elsewhere to receive an increase to your remuneration. 7 out of the last 10 remuneration increases for Sitemate team members have been made pro-actively by management, without the individual needing to even raise the topic of remuneration.
- You will get a laptop and a budget to set up your home office (monitor, headphones etc).
- You will have visibility into the standardised career development plan for your role, and access to a professional learning and development budget.
- You will get equity options and ownership in Sitemate on a standard vesting schedule. See here a general overview of how this works:https://legalvision.com.au/5-essential-elements-employee-share-scheme/
- Sitemate has grown from 5 people in 2018 to now over 100, and we’re moving into the next stage of growth! We have a product that customers are strongly engaged with, and every month we get around >400 new leads whilst spending $0 on marketing and 0 cold calling.
- Sitemate’s founders have diverse backgrounds - one coming from engineering on major infrastructure projects; the second coming from product and graphic design. This brings a unique perspective internally where we blend deep industry experience with a passion (obsession) for modern best practices in product design.
- Sitemate graduated from Australia’s #1 Technology Company Accelerator - Startmate
- Sitemate has strong financial backing from Blackbird (Australia and NZ’s #1 Vc), Shearwater Growth Capital & Marbruck Investments.
- See info on our latest raise here: Hartley Pike 👷 on LinkedIn: Sitemate raises $7.5M Pre-Series A, approaches escape velocity | 58 comments
What is the working environment like at Sitemate?
- We are very transparent - monthly Allhands meetings provide the team with direct insight into team updates, customer stories, hiring plans and key metrics (NPS, Revenue, Financial Performance). During this Allhands meeting we also hear one ‘life story’ from one of our team each month - learning about different countries and cultures around the world.
- We place an extremely high value on your time - you won’t be spending your days wasting time on fighting internal systems, botched together spreadsheet processes or doing data entry.
- We use best in class systems that are seamlessly integrated to deliver our team the right information at the right time, allowing them to get their work done efficiently and to a very high standard.
- You will have a core and close team around you, but you will also be exposed to and working directly with multiple departments - engineering, product, design, marketing, sales and customer success.
- You will have a high degree of autonomy, as the focus is on outcomes and not hours. If you want to block off a few hours to run a personal errand or block off an hour to pick up the kids from school - no worries. No one will be monitoring your time.
- We are constantly working to minimise the number of group meetings - daily check ins are all done asynchronously (in your own time) each morning. But spontaneous 1:1s or small sessions are strongly encouraged!
What does Sitemate do, exactly?
- Sitemate builds best in class software products for the built world.
- Industrial companies operating in the built world are facing a number of mission critical challenges - changes in work behaviour as Generation Z start to enter the workforce as mobile first users of software, and the drastic shift away from traditional mining to renewable energy projects such as wind farms and solar farms.
- Our first product - Dashpivot, is a platform where industrial style companies streamline and standardise their processes in a new digital format. This new digital format enables them to complete and track work in the field on a mobile or tablet, and automate repetitive tasks and tracking through automated workflows and real-time analytics.
See some of our user reviews for Dashpivot here:
What will I be doing day to day in this role?
- You will work as a Full Stack Engineer in a new areas of Sitemate’s product suite that leverage AI, so you will get exposure to work with multiple products in our suite including our main product Dashpivot. This will entail developing and delivering features to address pain points for our customers and our go-to-market teams. Our current engineering and product processes enable us to ship multiple features each week.
- For the first couple of months, you will pick up some ‘warm up’ tasks to help you familiarise yourself with our systems and processes, as well as our existing functionality. You will also be getting involved in the planning and development of new features, including by joining research calls with project leadership.
- Once you have gained familiarity with our products, you'll play a key role in developing new features, fixing bugs and re-architecting core component functions.
- You’ll be collaborating closely with our delivery team (Product Owner & QA Engineers), Product team and broader Engineering team on both delivering on projects and contributing to decision making around company-wide engineering issues.
- You will assist our delivery team with diagnosing any production issues by investigating bugsnag and datadog logs, and then creating hotfix releases accordingly.
What will be the biggest challenges for me in this role?
- Working on early-stage projects means embracing the unknown.
- Our fast-paced environment requires the ability to learn and adapt quickly.
- You may need to unlearn a few things as we have our own strong company values and processes.
What kind of skills and experience do I need to have? (ideally most but not all)
- Javascript/Typescript experience, including Node and Angular, is preferred.
- Love for all things Frontend including CSS.
- MongoDB experience is a bonus.
- Experience with building no/low code automation product(s) is a bonus.
- Broader non-technical understanding of the open API ecosystem, best practices and trends
