Staff Engineer

This is a Staff Engineer role with Culture Amp based in Melbourne, VIC, AU == Culture Amp == Role Seniority - senior More about the Staff Engineer role at Culture Amp 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, McDonald’s 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 recognised 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. We’re seeking an experienced Staff Front End Engineer to join our Continuous Feedback team. You will be instrumental in evolving how employees give and receive real‑time feedback through intelligent, AI‑supported experiences, directly influencing product direction and technical quality. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll shape how our front end engineering practice evolves within the Camp, with opportunities for impact beyond your immediate team. Continuous Feedback is a core component of our Perform product, designed to deliver fair and actionable feedback to help develop individuals and teams. Our mission for this team is clear: make feedback accessible, seamless, and valuable for all users—helping organisations build cultures where everyone can thrive. You will Lead the technical vision, architecture, and implementation of large‑scale AI‑supported front end solutions in React and Typescript, directly supporting critical product experiences in Continuous Feedback. This includes designing intuitive UIs for intelligent feedback analysis, surfacing relevant insights, and guiding user interactions. Champion the adoption of engineering best practices—including accessibility, quality, performance, and maintainability—drawing on Culture Amp’s unified Next.js‑based front end stack and the Kaizen Design System. Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to turn customer problems into product outcomes. You’ll help define, slice, and deliver features that make a real impact for managers and employees using feedback daily. Act as a multiplier across teams: mentor, coach, and upskill fellow engineers. Help shape the growth of our front end practice by contributing to cross‑camp initiatives, solution previews, design reviews, and RFCs. Lead efforts in both the ambiguous and the urgent: tackle complex, legacy technical challenges and navigate the fast‑changing needs of our product landscape, providing clarity for others as you go. Influence and uphold the Continuous Feedback team’s engineering standards—owning system quality and supporting the ongoing evolution of how feedback is delivered, requested, and managed in our platform. You Have Significant, hands‑on experience building and maintaining large‑scale SaaS front ends using React, Typescript, and modern web technologies. Familiarity with Next.js, Storybook, and design systems (like Kaizen or comparable) is a strong plus. Deep knowledge of web application architecture, performance optimisation, accessibility, and user‑centric design. You’re comfortable “owning” the quality and standard of solutions delivered. A track record of technical leadership: you’ve shaped engineering practices or frameworks across teams, led significant technical initiatives, and coached peers or juniors to higher quality and autonomy. Strong sense of ownership—proactively identify roadblocks, technical debt, and “next right things” for your team and the broader front end community at Culture Amp. Experience collaborating successfully with cross‑functional teams (product, design, research, backend), balancing fast delivery with scalable and maintainable solutions. You excel in ambiguity and thrive on being the person to bring clarity, structure, and technical leadership to new and evolving product spaces. You care deeply about customer and user experience and want to transform how feedback is given and received at work. Bonus: Experience with SaaS performance management, feedback, people or HR tech products. Benefits 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 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 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 programme 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). We have a strong commitment to anti‑racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 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 Please keep reading… Research shows that candidates from under‑represented backgrounds often don’t apply for roles if they don’t meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements. 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 cultureamp.com/rca 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. Before we jump into the responsibilities of the role. No matter what you come in knowing, you’ll be learning new things all the time and the Culture Amp team will be there to support your growth. Please consider applying even if you don’t meet 100% of what’s outlined