Senior Software Engineer – Backend / Full Stack (TypeScript)

About the role

Introduction

Are you searching for an opportunity to play a key role in driving the dramatic growth of a highly successful software company?

At Poppulo, we’re working on what’s next in communications and workplace technology. As a leader in this industry, we understand that meaningfully reaching every employee is hard. And so is managing office space in a hybrid world. And so is improving the customer and guest experience. We exist to make each of these things easier. We exist to bring harmony to our customers.

And we do that at enterprise scale. Our omnichannel employee communications, customer communications, and workplace experience platform is trusted by over 6,000 organisations today, reaching more than 35M employees and delivering content to 500,000+ digital signs.

We know there’s no such thing as a “perfect" candidate - we’re all a work in progress and are growing new skills and capabilities all the time. We encourage you to apply for a position with Poppulo even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We believe in fostering an environment where there is a diversity of perspectives, in hopes that we can all succeed.

Job Summary

The Senior Software Development Engineer is responsible for the design, development and long-term technical health of business-critical applications and services. This role delivers complex technical solutions, provides technical leadership within the team, and contributes to architectural decisions and engineering best practices.

The Senior Software Development Engineer leads technical design and implementation within their area, mentors other engineers, and helps ensure the systems they work on remain scalable, secure, reliable and maintainable.

Key Responsibilities

Software Development & Architecture

- Design, develop, test and deploy complex software solutions.

- Lead technical design discussions and guide implementation approaches.

- Lead the delivery of complex features and solutions across multiple contributors.

- Contribute to architectural decisions and identify technical risks.

- Drive modernisation and technical debt reduction within assigned systems.

- Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure and aligned with business requirements.

Product & System Ownership

- Own the design, delivery and ongoing technical health of assigned systems and services.

- Drive improvements in application scalability, performance and reliability.

- Lead investigation and root-cause analysis of complex production issues.

- Partner with DevOps and Platform teams to improve reliability, monitoring and observability.

- Contribute to the continuous improvement of operational practices.

Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence

- Lead technical discussions and provide guidance during design and implementation.