Careers – Senior Engineer (front end)
About Worknice
We’re on a mission to empower HR teams to tackle challenges as they arise, and create great workplaces that truly reflect their unique spirit.
Worknice is a fast-growing, HR tech SaaS business founded by an experienced team. We offer competitive compensation and real work-life balance, with a remote-friendly environment (within Australia), minimal meetings, and a wide variety of work. We are proud to have built a team culture that people genuinely enjoy working in.
About The Role
Details:
– Senior Engineer (UI), reporting to the Head of Product.
– Sydney-based, remote within Australia welcome.
– Attractive salary, equity available for the right candidate.
Requirements
– Extensive experience working on web applications.
– Experience with Next.js.
– Experience with GraphQL.
– Willingness to take on responsibility for the end-to-end
design and development of features.
– Great communication and collaboration skills (especially important for remote candidates).
– Ability to work autonomously.
Bonus Qualities
– Experience with Postgres
– Experience working at a startup.
– Experience in product management/ownership.
– Backend engineering experience.
Overview
About the Product
“Notebook” Is The Internal Codename For Worknice’s Flagship Product. Notebook Is a Web-based SaaS Product Targeted At The Following Market
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Core HR. Notebook focuses on solutions to problems experienced by HR teams. Notebook isn’t a generic solution like a spreadsheet or a project management tool.
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Mid-market. Notebook is optimised for organisations with 50–1000 employees that have a dedicated HR function. Notebook is not suitable for small organisations without full-time HR roles, nor large enterprise organisations that require bespoke solutions.
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Australian. Notebook has first-class support for the Australian tax and superannuation systems, common Australian attestations and other country-specific conventions. Notebook is not intended for use by organisations which aren’t based in Australia.
Tech Stack
Tech stack
Languages/frameworks
Databases
Services
- GitHub
- Vercel
- Supabase (database, file storage, auth)
- Axiom (logging)
- Jitsu (analytics, ETL)
- Postmark (email delivery)
- Retool (internal tools)
- Inngest (background tasks)
How We Work
Directly Responsible Individuals
We don’t work in silos.
Individuals are responsible for seeing work through from start to finish instead of each person doing their part and throwing it over the wall. That doesn’t mean everyone needs to be an expert in everything and it doesn’t mean no-one helps each other, but it does mean that if someone’s expertise is required to complete a piece of work you should pull them in to help out instead of passing it on like factory work. The flip-side of this is that each of us should lend our help to others as needed and balance our workload accordingly.
Ship Early, Ship Often
We always want to avoid analysis paralysis. Instead, we want to get changes in front of users as quickly as possible and, by default, we
lean towards cutting down scope in favour of increasing budget/timeline or sacrificing quality. That helps us find out if we’re heading in the wrong direction quickly and adjust course accordingly.
Distributed by Default
We’re a distributed team and we each
work with a very high level of autonomy and responsibility. We make heavy use of Slack, Notion, Google Workspace, Linear, Figma and Productlane to communicate asynchronously and coordinate our work.
Role Responsibilities
Provide UI Engineering Support
Provide UI engineering support to team members implementing user-facing product features.
Develop “Core HRIS” Features
Design And Develop Notebook’s Core Features
– People Profiles
– Forms/Questionnaires
– Shared Calendar & Events
– Confidential Notes
– Comments
Develop “Workforce Planning” Features
Design and develop features for managing positions and employment details:
- Jobs, Positions, Roles & Org Chart
– Departments, Teams & Locations
Develop Component Kit
Work closely with the Lead Product Designer to develop and maintain a component kit for “Whiteboard” (our internal design system).
Optimise UI Performance
Ensure the UI of the products we’re delivering are performant.
– Work with the rest of the Product & Engineering team to define performance targets for UI.
– Work with the rest of the Product & Engineering team to set-up and maintain monitoring of performance targets.
– Implement changes to improve performance to meet our performance targets.
Develop “Application Tracking System” Features
Design and develop features for synchronising information from external application tracking systems:
– Employee Details
Maintain Accessibility
Ensure the accessibility goals of our products are met.
– Work with the rest of the team implement practices to ensure the products we develop are accessible.
– Implemented and maintain tools and features to improve accessibility.
Advocate for “manager” Users
Advocate internally for the needs of “manager” users. These are the users who were probably not involved in the customer’s decision to use Worknice, but probably use our products for a lot of their day-to-day work.