The Company

Checkbox is a Sequoia-backed technology start-up with a mission to enable meaningful work for all. To achieve this, we built a no-code automation platform with the belief that the power of digital creation needs to be accessible to everyone, not just IT teams. Seeing non-technical users surprisingly delighted when they use our technology to create in ways they never thought they ever could motivate us. Whilst our mission is big, our focus is sharp. Our customers today are primarily in-house legal departments from companies including SAP, BMW, Allianz, Pinterest, and Coca-Cola.

Recently, we expanded our offering to not only help people do meaningful work, but manage it too. This came with the launch of our AI-powered Matter Management product – the “JIRA for lawyers”. This is part of our broader vision to be the “Legal Service Hub” for organizations, responsible for how legal work is raised, allocated, managed, and resolved. We believe that one day the Legal Service Hub will be as ubiquitous for legal teams as the CRM for commercial teams and we believe that Checkbox will be the market leader for this.

As a company, we are a young and tight-knit team of about 60 people across the United States, Australia, and Asia, made up of incredible high performers and Co-Founders in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Our culture is one of our superpowers. It's what people talk about when they join us, work with us, and leave us.

Read about what makes all of us a "Checkmate" here: https://www.checkbox.ai/core-values.

The Position:

At Checkbox you will be joining a small tight-knit team of passionate, intelligent & driven people. It is vital for us that our people feel a sense of individual impact, trust, and continuous growth while solving challenging problems to get things done. Our product engineers are the innovators in our business, paving the way for growth opportunities and driving outcomes across our teams, and we’re always seeking smart & capable people to join the team to build a world-leading product.

You will work with a range of technologies including Go, Node and AWS to deliver innovative features and products that change the lives of our customers, leveraging best practices & adopting the latest trends in technology including AI.

In this position, you will:

• Work closely in a small, cross-functional product engineering team with a product manager, designer and other engineers
• Work with product and design to ideate, discover, design and implement features (across the full stack as our preference) that will empower our users to create their own digital solutions and transform the way they work
• Collaborate with and often lead the design & development of high quality technical solutions for the Checkbox platform, including both front-end and back-end development, supported by practices such as technical design workshops, pair programming, code reviews & more.
• Adopt and exemplify a pragmatic software development mindset with a focus on delivering value to customers while championing the team’s guidelines and standards for high quality and velocity software development

About you:

• Lived experience in strongly-typed langauges, preferrably Go / Golang - we use standard library these days but happy if you've worked primarily with frameworks like Gin as well.
• Understanding of REST Api's and associated Integrations, of course we won't discount GraphQL or RPC - but we are predominately REST/Json driven.
• You have hands-on experience with AWS prefferably in MQ or Event-Driven Systems (SQS, SNS, Lambda's, ECS/EKS)
• You are pragmatic, flexible and nimble. You are keen to solve problems and deliver value to customers quickly, and understand that this can sometimes mean ambiguity and rapid change
• You are capable and effective at owning the delivery of complex, large scale features, breaking down requirements and providing reasonable estimates
• You consider yourself opinionated but flexible, we appreciate people who have opinions and know when to stick to their guns, but value team collaboration and insight.
• You understand that collaboration and communication is at the heart of what makes a team succeed in the long run, and can articulate your thoughts, ideas and concerns effectively
• You produce high-quality work and are proud of your contributions

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive salary & equity – We believe in employee ownership and comfortable compensation for our employees so that they can be as happy and productive as possible without any reservations.
• Hybrid working arrangements – We have an office in the city and the team comes in on Tuesdays for our weekly all-hands kick-off (and we’ll grab coffee and lunch together), and on Fridays where we celebrate our weeks effort and go out for dinner.
• Personal learning & development budget - Continuous development and growth is one of our core value, and we believe in developing our own home-grown leaders.
• Expense policy & salary sacrifices – You can expense small work-related items and salary sacrifice larger items within reason.
• Start-up hub in the heart of the city - Enjoy our city office which is decked full of snacks, drinks, premium coffee and coffee machine, and of course, a ping pong table and beers.
• Company wide social events - Enjoy company lunches, Friday night hangs, and wicked annual off sites (past events include a massive boat party, trip to a hunter valley mansion, and a week in Bali!)
• Transparent & open culture - Enjoy the benefits of an open culture where all questions and feedback are welcomed so we can be a better company day by day.