Staff Backend Engineer

SafetyCulture is a global technology company that is helping to transform workplaces around the world. After witnessing the tragedy of workplace incidents as a private investigator, SafetyCulture Founder Luke Anear recruited a team to help him develop a mobile solution for frontline workers. What we have created is a market leading workplace operations platform that helps give teams the knowledge, tools, and confidence they need to meet higher standards, work safely, and improve every day.

The role

This role owns the technical direction of how SafetyCulture handles identity, access control, and permissions at scale-to create a best in class capability. You'll drive architecture decisions that affect every team building on top of our platform, and set the bar for how we design and deliver security critical systems.

The tech stack

We use a modern technology stack including Swift, Kotlin, C++ (mobile), React.js (frontend), Golang, Node.js (backend), and AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes (infrastructure).

What you'll be doing

• Own architecture and technical direction for role based access control, identity management, and permissions across the platform
• Lead delivery of complex, cross cutting features-scoping, estimating, and shipping end to end
• Raise the technical bar through code review, design critique, and deliberately building the people around you
• Translate complex security trade offs for product partners and leadership
• Surface problems others haven't noticed yet and drive them to resolution without waiting to be directed
• Use AI assisted development tools fluently (Copilot, Cursor, or equivalent) and help the team establish good practice around them

What you'll bring

• Deep backend expertise with production experience designing access control systems (RBAC, OAuth 2.0, OIDC)
• Comfort operating across service oriented architectures and at SaaS scale
• A track record of owning delivery-not just contributing-and making smart effort vs impact calls
• Ability to give honest feedback, receive it well, and invest in the people around you as much as your own output
• Confidence moving forward without waiting for a perfect brief, always thinking about the customer behind every technical decision
• Clear ability and desire to demonstrate SafetyCulture values (Think Customer, Open Honest Always, Better as a Team, Be Bold Bring Action)

Benefits & perks

• Equity with high growth potential, and a competitive salary
• Great food-our in house chefs serve breakfast, lunch and unlimited snacks for all dietary requirements
• Complimentary coffee/tea, beer and wine on tap, a pool table, board games, and a book library
• On site gym, EAP services, and generous parental leave policy
• Quarterly celebrations and an annual ShipIt global offsite
• Flexible working arrangements and support for professional and personal training and development
• Pet friendly workplace and community engagement opportunities

SafetyCulture is committed to building inclusive teams. We seek to create a sense of belonging for all candidates. We encourage reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.