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Software Engineer

Dovetail • FULL_TIME • Surry Hills, NSW, AU • 15h ago

Software Engineer

Dovetail is the world’s leading customer insights hub, helping thousands of teams build better products. From user feedback and customer interviews to support tickets and sales calls, Dovetail helps you uncover insights fast—no matter the method. Driven by ambition and innovation, the Dovetail team is customer-obsessed and on a mission to help the world improve the quality of every thing. Join the ranks of Atlassian, The New York Times, Spotify, Universal, Porsche, Starbucks, and thousands more as they put their customer first with Dovetail and improve the quality of their thing.

Founded in 2017 by Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers, Dovetail has 100+ employees across offices in Sydney and San Francisco.

Who you’ll work closely with

Terence Jeong

Software Engineer

Sarah Haver

Software Engineer

Erin Campbell

Engineering Manager

Peter Wooden

Software Engineer

What you’ll do

Join our product engineering team. You'll be a crucial part of our product team, working closely with your engineering manager, product designer, and other engineers to evolve the feature set of Dovetail's product.
Deliver high-quality software design. You'll work closely with other engineers to identify, define, design, and implement technical solutions for Dovetail’s web product, including both frontend and backend development, to create meaningful value for our customers.
You'll collaborate with your team to sweat the details. You'll share our passion for quality to you'll be involved in practices like code review, pair programming, design sparring, etc.
Foster a culture of pragmatism. You'll maintain and foster a pragmatic approach to software development whilst also working with senior engineers in the establishment of detailed guidelines and standards for product development processes based on industry best practices and your experience.

Your background

Experience building web products. You'll have hands-on exposure to building the frontend and backend of web products with technology like TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node, ProseMirror, PostgreSQL and AWS.
You are pragmatic and flexible. Like your new teammates, you're used to doing what's necessary to get the job done. You'll need to be comfortable with ambiguity, be resourceful to solve problems, and be able to adjust to shifting deadlines and project goals.
When you do it, you nail it. You share our keen eye for quality and what you ship is top-notch. You cut scope before cutting quality.
Excellent, concise communicator. You can easily convey your thoughts, opinions, and feelings with your product team and have the ability to articulate effort vs impact tradeoffs.

At Dovetail, we’re passionate about building and fostering an environment where every team member feels supported and valued. We celebrate individualism, welcoming everyone to show up as their authentic selves every day. It’s no secret that diversity builds the best teams, large or small, so we highly encourage applications from people who identify as part of an under-represented group.