Senior Engineer

Summary

Join Envato as a Senior Engineer and contribute to key initiatives within the Search Platform Team. You will collaborate with stakeholders and engineers to design and implement high-quality solutions, prioritizing work, and simplifying solutions to deliver business value. Mentoring junior engineers and delegating tasks to empower the team will also be part of your responsibilities. This role involves working on a major search initiative incorporating vector search capabilities to enhance search results for customers. The team uses Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks and cloud infrastructure platforms. You will be writing clean, reliable code, actively mitigating risks, and working within a cross-functional team.

Requirements

• You likely have 5+ years of full stack development experience
• You are proficient in Ruby on Rails or an equivalent framework, such as Python with Django
• You have experience with cloud infrastructure platforms (e.g., Terraform, Cloudflare, AWS), with openness to other platforms as well
• Experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, as well as vector search engines like Marqo or Vespa
• You value learning from others, no matter their experience level, and seek constructive feedback
• Collaboration is important to you, and you thrive in a team where everyone shares ownership and works together to solve problems
• You use engineering practices that emphasize maintainability and clarity, applying testing and refactoring techniques when appropriate to solve business problems effectively
• You are comfortable sharing knowledge, up-skilling and mentoring others
• You evaluate trade-offs in your decisions, balancing the need for experimentation and rapid iteration with the operational realities of production systems and a commitment to keeping our community safe and secure

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, well thought out and reliable code
• Actively contribute to identifying and mitigating risks
• Working as a member of a small cross-functional team, containing members with different skills and experience
• Sharing your knowledge and helping your teammates to learn and grow
• Working on strategic initiatives, tactical improvements and maintenance
• Seeking to better understand and deliver value to your users
• Taking ownership. Caring about the quality and impact of the systems you build and maintain

Benefits

• Flexible Working - Remote-first with flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need
• Work from Anywhere - Apply to work in another location for up to 3 months per calendar year
• Connection Budget - An annual budget to connect with the team IRL where and when possible
• Learning Budget - Study leave and an annual budget for you to put towards your learning and development
• Home Office Allowance - A contribution towards your set-up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs
• Wellbeing - Access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health
• Volunteer Leave - 2 days per calendar year to volunteer and give back to the community
• Parental Leave - 20 weeks paid primary carer leave, and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave