Senior Engineer - Performance
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, 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’re thrilled to open a Senior Software Engineer (L3) role on Team Review Cycles. Our team is at the forefront of rebuilding a significant portion of our Performance product on a more adaptable domain model and a modern tech stack: Next.js, TailwindCSS, Storybook, Ruby on Rails, Temporal, Postgres, and AWS Aurora Serverless. As an L3, you’ll lead and shape the final stages of this rebuild, evolving established patterns, de-risking migrations, and ensuring we land a robust, observable, and scalable foundation. Within six months, the team will pivot to rapid product innovation—this is an opportunity to influence our technical direction and move quickly with customer impact in mind.
As a Senior Software Engineer (L3) on this team, you will
- Own complex systems end‑to‑end, from discovery and solution design through rollout and measurement—balancing speed, quality, and safety.
- Lead technical design and architecture for features and services as we continue our shift to a distributed, event‑driven architecture (including Temporal‑based workflows), making pragmatic decisions that scale.
- Elevate the codebase and platform by improving domain boundaries, data models, and integration points; you’ll leave things better than you found them.
- Uphold and raise engineering standards—championing test strategy, observability, performance, reliability, and secure-by-default practices.
- Mentor and amplify other engineers, providing thoughtful code reviews, pairing, and design feedback; you help others do the best work of their careers.
- Partner cross‑functionally with product managers and designers to deeply understand customer problems, validate assumptions, and ship outcomes—not just output.
- Drive healthy operations: contribute to on‑call, guide incident response and post‑incident learning, and build robust runbooks and guardrails.
- Continuously improve our ways of working—from CI/CD and developer experience to documentation, release practices, and cost awareness.
What makes you a great fit
- You’re a frontend-leaning, full‑stack engineer with deep experience in providing great user experience in distributed systems, SaaS products, and large‑scale applications.
- You have 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 is a bonus
- You have a strong track record of leading projects end‑to‑end—clarifying scope, aligning stakeholders, sequencing delivery, and landing reliable, maintainable solutions.
- You’re product‑focused and optimised for customer and business impact; you’re comfortable defining and measuring success metrics.
- You practice good testing discipline and know when and how to invest in unit, integration, contract, and end‑to‑end tests.
- You’re self‑directed, remove blockers proactively, and communicate clearly; you know when to move fast and when to slow down.
- You contribute positively to team culture—through excellent software design, documentation, and by improving our practices and patterns.
- You’re aligned with our values and demonstrate them in your work: Have the courage to be vulnerable, Learn faster through feedback, Trust people to own decisions, and Amplify others.
What you can expect from us
- A supportive, values‑driven environment where impact, learning, and continuous improvement are celebrated.
- Meaningful ownership on a strategically important product area with clear opportunities to shape architecture and roadmap.
- Collaboration with talented engineers, product managers, and designers who care deeply about building a better world of work.
If you’re excited to build reliable, elegant systems that unlock product velocity—and to help others do the same—we’d love to hear from you.
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.
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