Senior Frontend Engineer - Unified Systems

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Culture Amp is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to join the Unified Systems team onsite in Sydney, full-time. You’ll mainly use React and Next.js with TypeScript to build and maintain UI components in the Kaizen design system and own shared libraries powering the platform. Expect collaboration with product and design peers, documentation, while raising engineering standards and ensuring security, observability and performance in production. To apply, show frontend fundamentals, a track record of scalable web apps, and design system experience, plus a growth mindset and collaborative approach. We encourage you to apply and share how you can amplify our team, and note diversity questions or accommodations if needed.

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. 

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.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

How you can help make a better world of work

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join the Unified Systems Neighbourhood in our Core Services camp. At the heart of our neighbourhood is a shared mission: to provide a unified user experience to our customers. Working in this role, you will partner closely with product, design, and data peers to deliver user experiences that drive the right behaviours and practices for people and their business.

Our neighbourhood builds the platform experience that underpins Culture Amp’s unified navigation, App Chrome, shared UI/tooling packages, and Home surface, enabling product teams to ship cohesive, accessible, and performant experiences across the platform. Your work will shape our Design System and other key UI infrastructure, elevating consistency and speed for every team and customer touchpoint.

As part of this team of amazing humans,

You will

• Write clean, scalable, and testable code as a Frontend Engineer (primarily React, Next.js) to deliver seamless, high-performance frontend interfaces.
• Build and maintain UI components within Culture Amp’s Kaizen design system, collaborating with designers and other engineers in your team.
• Own and evolve other foundational systems, including shared libraries and cross-product services that define our unified platform experiences.
• Collaborate through pairing, solution designs, and thoughtful code reviews—documenting your approaches and sharing knowledge via docs, brown bags, and internal posts.
• Coach other developers—raising the bar for engineering excellence within the team.
• Partner with engineers across Core Services to ensure your changes integrate seamlessly and positively impact adjacent domains.
• Maintain and support the services your team owns: ensure systems are secure, observable, and performant in production; refactor and improve existing code to better serve customers.

You have

• High proficiency with frontend languages (React, Next.js, TypeScript).
• A track record of building web applications and services with strong fundamentals in web architecture, scalability and security.
• Experience working with a design system is a bonus.

You are

• Passionate about empowering other engineering teams to be productive and deliver high quality products.
• Someone who loves collaboration—our teams are cross-functional and you’ll work closely with other engineers, delivery leads, product managers, and designers to deliver outcomes together.
• Keen to learn and equally keen to share your knowledge. You have a growth mindset and value feedback.
• Self-motivated and comfortable working autonomously. You proactively remove blockers, seek context, and call for support when it’s needed.

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!

If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding roles in Germany). These questions are completely optional, but your participation truly helps. By sharing this anonymous information, you support our efforts to build a more inclusive and equitable hiring process—and help us hold ourselves accountable to that commitment. Your responses are entirely confidential and will not impact hiring decisions.

If you require reasonable accommodations or adjustments due to a disability to complete the online application or to participate in the interview process, please contact accommodations@cultureamp.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly. Culture Amp will retain your CV & personal information for a period of two years (four years for the US) from the date of your application process completion. Culture Amp may contact you in relation to future job opportunities during this time period. For further information please see our privacy policy here or contact [email protected].