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Lead Software Engineer - Better Portal Experience

Hello! We make Octopus Deploy. Our mission is to make deployment time a happy time.

Octopus Deploy

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 175k-185k AUD

AU and NZ only
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Hello 👋!
We make Octopus Deploy.
We simplify complex software deployments so our customers can focus on what they do best and ship software on time without unwanted disruptions or surprises.
🐙235,000+ people use Octopus Deploy.
🐙600,000+ virtual machines run our Tentacle agent.
🐙300,000,000+ deployments to date.
🐙90% of support emails answered in 2 hours or less.
🐙Over 3,500 organisations use Octopus Deploy (curious? check this out)
Octopus Deploy is one of Australia’s fastest-growing software companies (and we’re taking on the world). After bootstrapping for a decade, in 2021, we quietly raised Australia's second largest ever venture capital raise, accepting a USD 172M minority investment from Insight Partners.
If you have a commitment to excellence, a desire to delight customers, and want to be a member of a fast-growing team, you'll love this position.
Salary range: $175,000–$185,000 AUD plus stock options

About the team

This role sits in the Frontend Foundations team which is composed of product designers and engineers. The team helps to improve the productivity and efficacy of other RD teams working in the frontend, while also helping to make our UX a world class experience.

Experience required for this role

  • You are an experienced individual contributor or leader in your current job.
  • You have a firm grasp of the software trade using TypeScript and React.
  • You have experience maintaining a large and complex codebase over time. Through personal experience, you have learned the importance of architecting a simple and maintainable codebase to keep velocity high and sustainable.
  • You've built and maintained component libraries. You care about writing simple and accessible frontend components with tests that inspire confidence and are easy to maintain.
  • You enjoy collaborating with other engineers and designers to solve problems, challenging each other to discover the best solution for a problem using a balance of passion, pragmatism, and empathy.
  • You are a results-oriented person, someone who is focused on iteratively delivering valuable things to your customers; who proactively changes direction based on clear and transparent business information, and someone who helps others do the same.

You will like this role if...

  • You enjoy a balance of coding and leadership.
  • You enjoy collaborating with designers to achieve the best outcome for both users and development teams.
  • You like a balance of freedom and responsibility, being treated as an adult.
  • You enthusiastically accept radically candid feedback; feedback that is thoughtful, timely, and directly actionable, and offer the same benefit to others.
  • You enjoy doing things the right way from the very beginning, knowing you are working on a valuable asset.
  • You want to do the best work of your life with other like-minded people.

A typical day might include…

  • Solving complex problems and taming complexity, impacting all engineering teams at Octopus by improving the platform upon which our world class frontends are built.
  • Advocating for process improvements and keeping the team focused on the most valuable things, driving the team towards solution delivery. Contributing to both design and engineering working together harmoniously.
  • Gathering feedback from designers and engineers so you can plan changes to the design system that accommodates everyone.
  • Changing source code hosted in GitHub, collaborating on a pull-request, getting feedback from other Octopus Deploy engineers on how the changes affect them and iterating on this to reach the desired outcome.
  • Pairing with another engineer to solve a complex technical problem or decide how to best architect the frontend for new features.
  • Working with designers to plan the next evolution of our navigation experience in our frontend, based on feedback received from customers.

Equal Opportunity

  • We’ve built an inclusive workplace culture and understand the true importance of culture-add, versus culture-fit.
  • From day 1, you'll have a buddy helping you get your bearings. You can book in coffee chats with anyone in the company. We encourage everyone to have a voice in all aspects of the product and the business. So much so that we have an open chat policy (all channels are public by default) and everyone is welcome!
  • Also when it comes to inclusivity, we mean it, check out our handbook!
  • If you’d like to work at Octopus, reach out and say hello!

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About the job

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May 08, 2024

Posted on

Mar 09, 2024

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Salary: 175k-185k AUD

Location requirements

Hiring timezones

Australia +/- 0 hours, and 1 other timezone

About Octopus Deploy

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Hello! We make Octopus Deploy. Our mission is to make deployment time a happy time.

Teams build better software when they can iterate quickly and get feedback from real users, which means deploying changes to production. We also know that production deployments can be complex, risky and scary, which means teams tend to put them off, compounding the problem.

Since starting, we've helped over thousands of software teams to automate their deployments, and to make deployment something teams can look forward to.

Our story & focus

Octopus Deploy is a bootstrapped, profitable and conservatively-managed company, with a focus on engineering and customer service. Our goal isn't to solve everything related to DevOps, but to focus specifically on being "best-in-class" in the release, deployment and operations parts of DevOps. We hope you'll combine Octopus with other best-in-class solutions to build a world-class DevOps capability.

Octopus Deploy began as a spare time project in 2010, based on our experiences with the difficulty of deploying software and delivering projects when consulting to enterprises and mid-sized companies. Initially, our focus was on deploying .NET applications to Windows-based servers.

As our customers grew, we found ourselves being asked to solve more complex types of deployments, which we've focussed on: we don't think it's a stretch to say that if your deployment is very complicated, Octopus is more likely to be able to solve it elegantly than any other deployment software can.

Recently, we've branched out a little, first into release management - where customers have been asking us for a long time to help solve all of the orchestration and co-ordination problems they face - and more recently into operations, as we saw that many companies were using Octopus not just to deploy software, but to automate all of the steps associated with keeping the software running.

Employee benefits

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Healthcare benefits

Excellent health care, dental and vision. (US only)

Retirement benefits

Generous 401K / pension retirement plan matching. (US & UK only)

Paid parental leave

We offer paid maternity leave at 90% of your salary for the first 6 weeks. We also offer paid paternity leave at 90% of your salary for the first 2 weeks. You can also take any other accrued annual leave at that time. We of course also fulfill any other programs that the relevant government requires.

Home office budget

Octopus will provide a laptop & peripherals of your choosing, within a generous budget that should allow you to have all the necessary equipment to work efficiently. You can replace your laptop every 3 years. We'll also provide a home office allowance in which we match 50% of your spend in a year up to a generous limit.

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