Full or Part-time

The best product development job in the world? We think so.
 
We are looking for people who live and work in Australia to join our remote-first team. You will be working on Octopus Deploy, the most popular deployment automation tool in the world. This means everything you do will positively affect the lives of thousands of software developers and operations teams around the world.
 
Read our employee handbook and our people repository to discover what it's like working at Octopus.

You will join one of our development teams working on our flagship product. We shape, bet, and build using a method inspired by Shape Up. We work in 8-week cycles, focusing on directed work for 6-weeks, and "sharpening the saw" with undirected work for 2-weeks at the end of each cycle. We remove unnecessary obstacles so you can work directly with customers who are developers just like us. Our teams are software tradespeople who care about doing things right the first time. You will probably be surprised at how collaboratively we work both inside and across our teams, even though our teams work remotely. We take pride in our hard-earned, friendly, consensus-building, and ever-improving remote-first culture.

Working at Octopus may be different from any other job you’ve had before. In many companies, software engineers are treated as an expense to reduce or a revenue stream to increase. In contrast, Octopus is a product company built from the ground up by engineers, for engineers. At Octopus your effort will be appreciated because you are adding value to our products, which are our assets. Also, our customers are people just like us. This makes it easy to relate to our customers and understand what they care about most.

Octopus is not done. Many of us came to Octopus thinking “it does everything I want, how can I possibly help?” Continual changes in the software landscape present a constant stream of opportunities for us to explore. We will continue to make Octopus the best tool in its class by increasing the value Octopus offers, pushing into new territory beyond deployment automation, all the while making Octopus easier and more delightful to use for both simple and complex scenarios alike. If you like solving distributed computing problems, building delightful user experiences, or anything in between, you can do that with us.

Octopus is not a startup. We do not need venture capital, we have been a sustainably profitable business from day one. We care about building a sustainable company and we do this by helping customers succeed, leaving increased revenue as a happy byproduct. 

A typical day might include

• Working where you work best, perhaps in a home office designed by you, using a device of your choosing, with or without music, in an atmosphere you create for yourself.
• Improving our onboarding experience for new customers to help them become successful with Octopus sooner.
• Working on small improvements which make the Octopus user interface more usable and delightful for experienced customers.
• Changing our TypeScript + React source code hosted in GitHub, most of it in the open, collaborating on a pull-request, then shipping a release to customers around the world via an automated build, test, and delivery pipeline, often within the same day.
• Handling an inbound support ticket from a customer, helping them succeed with Octopus, or offering advice to a customer in our community Slack workspace.
• Pairing with another software engineer or a support engineer to help them reproduce a tricky problem, helping them understand the inner workings of the Octopus user interface in the process so they can be more helpful to even more customers over time.
• Pairing with another engineer on a Zoom call to solve a technical problem or design a new feature.
• Fixing a bug using an approach like red-green-refactor to prevent customers from experiencing that bug again.
• Improving our documentation to help customers discover solutions for themselves.
• Writing a blog post about something interesting for other developers, or explaining a new feature of Octopus.

You will be a great fit for this role if

• You are a valuable individual contributor in your current job regardless of your experience.
• You are passionate about usability design and modern front-end software development.
• You care about software craftsmanship using any front-end development language or toolset.
• You are able to work independently, motivating yourself to do high-quality work on time, communicating with your teammates when you need help or when you are ready for something new.
• You enjoy collaborating with other people to solve problems, challenging each other to discover the best solution for a problem, using a balance of passion, pragmatism, and empathy.
• You are a results-oriented person, someone who is focused on iteratively delivering valuable things to your customers, someone who willingly changes direction based on clear and transparent business information, and someone who helps others do the same.

You will enjoy this role if

• You want to work on a world-class user interface built using TypeScript, React, and Material UI.
• You are a software consultant or contractor looking to invest your effort into a successful and lasting product.
• You are a valuable individual contributor looking to expand your horizons with a world-class software company.
• You like a balance of freedom and responsibility, being treated as an adult.
• You want to do the best work of your life with other like-minded people.
• You enthusiastically accept radically candid feedback, feedback that is thoughtful, timely, and directly actionable, and offer the same benefit to others.
• You enjoy solving complex distributed computing, automation, security, performance, and usability problems.
• You like working with great tools like the latest versions TypeScript, Webpack, React and React Testing Library in the development environment of your choice.
• You like working with customers directly, helping them be successful with Octopus, even if success proves to be elusive.
• You enjoy doing things the right way from the very beginning knowing you are working on a valuable asset.

Interested? We'd love to hear from you. Please include a cover letter outlining what you can bring to the role and how Octopus would be a good fit for you. If you look like a good fit, the we will be in touch to arrange a Zoom chat with one of our senior engineers.

Summary

We are looking for a software engineer to join our growing team, helping build our web-based analytics platform: BRG DRIVETM. The web is an ever-changing landscape, we’re looking for someone with experience building a modern single page application, but we have no specific tech stack or years-of-experience requirements though our preference is indicated in bold.

Required Qualifications

• Self-starter who digs in to find solutions, not just identifies problems. Enjoy working fast, breaking and fixing things, and implementing your own ideas to bring client services to the modern web.
• A desire to work remotely while traveling occasionally for team gatherings, client-specific work and “devcations” where product development takes place.
• Hold an ESTA eligible passport to enable travel with short notice
• Authorized to work in the US
• Experience enhancing and working with a full-stack web application
• Knowledge of one or more frameworks for the frontend (ex. VueJs, React, Angular)

Ideal Qualifications

• ~1-2 years of relevant work experience in software development
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar technical field of study
• Experience in software development using a general-purpose programming language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Go, etc)
• Knowledge of one or more frameworks for the backend (ex. Django, Flask, Laravel, Ruby On Rails, Express, Spring)
• Familiarity with SQL databases and designing application table structures
• Basic version control (ex. Git), networking, and cloud experience related to application deployment
• Knowledge of CI/CD techniques and implementations
• Knowledge of Linux and Docker
• Experience integrating 3rd party software into an existing stack

The Role

In this role your programming skills will be challenged by potentially any industry and many different issues that causes problems for our clients. You will work with our team of data scientists, subject matter experts, and other experienced coders to develop digital solutions for clients across the world by taking what they have learned or conceptualized and coding it into an implementable reality.  While we solve these problems, we dev together, we play together, and we support you to find the time for your family, non-work fun, and your passion – whatever it may be. 

With us you will

• Architect solutions that help solve the most pressing issues for companies across the globe implementing elegant and well-documented code.
• Make our platform, BRG DRIVETM an increasingly more competitive and compelling solution by championing and implementing new ideas and features.
• Provide an active, creative and knowledgeable voice during project roadmap and strategy brainstorming discussions.
• Create new features by designing and implementing proof of concepts and coordinating the final implementations.
• Make sure our code is clean and elegant by collaborating with the team during code review to maintain standards and code base knowledge.
• Dev your passion into reality. GAT believes in giving you time to chase after something that interests you even if it doesn’t make a direct or immediate impact to our work as we believe it provides innovation and inspiration into all that we do.
• Learn far more than you knew before you started working with the team and share those insights with the team.

About you

• Be a committed team player who works well with various stakeholders to ensure the best outcome.
• Flexible and creative enough to accept that client needs can be very different, and they change. You thrive – not cringe—at this reality and enjoy finding a way to work in the confines and the requirements of such a technical solution.
• Have strong spoken and written communication skills including the ability to talk to non-dev people and explain what you are doing and why you do it the way you do.
• Have a passion for learning new things and pushing the envelope.
• Taking pride in own work and demonstrating attention to detail.

What is on the table

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Working as part of a remote and dynamic DevOps team
• Several “devcations” a year (pandemic permitting), held in different cities around the world, where you assemble with the DevOps team (and others depending on the need) to scope new features, and enhancements that build the revenue potential and scalability of BRG DRIVETM
• Custom remote working travel kit to allow a flexible lifestyle
• Yearly training and certification budget

Responsibilities

• Designing, programming, testing and refactoring code
• Writing well-documented, quality code with a clean, simple design
• Collaborating with UI/UX designers, backend developers and other team members

Requirements

• Good understanding of JavaScript, React, Redux, and build tools such as Webpack
• Experience with web standards such as HTML5 and CSS3
• Good sense of design with a perfectionist mindset
• Interest in working in a very agile and flexible environment
• Proficient in English in writing and speaking
• Solution-oriented and independent worker

• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Thorough understanding of Redux
• Experience with Recompose
• Strong knowledge of Node.js
• Experience with SASS
• Experience with AJAX
• Experience with functional programming
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Experience building beautiful, pixel perfect web apps from design mock to complete implementation
• Experience with browser and platform interoperability (responsive vs. desktop)
• Experience building embeddable web app widgets
• Experience building email compatible mark-up
• Experience with WebSockets or similar technology
• Experience writing concise and well structured OOP code.
• A can-do attitude that can hit deadlines without cutting corners or sacrificing structural integrity.

Full or Part-time

Remote within Australia

The best software development job in the world? We think so.

We are looking for people who live and work in Australia to join our remote-first engineering team. You will be working on Octopus Deploy, the most popular deployment automation tool in the world. This means everything you do will positively affect the lives of thousands of other software developers around the world.

Already seen enough? Click the button to apply and have a real conversation with one of our engineering leads.

You will join one of our three development teams who work across the entire Octopus ecosystem. We shape, bet, and build using a method inspired by Shape Up. We work in 8-week cycles, focusing on directed work for 6-weeks, and cooling-down with undirected work for 2-weeks at the end of each cycle. We remove unnecessary obstacles so you can work directly with customers who are developers just like us. Our teams are software crafters care about doing things right the first time. You will probably be surprised at how collaboratively we work both inside and across our teams, even though our teams work remotely. We take pride in our hard-earned, friendly, consensus-building, and ever-improving remote-first culture.

Working at Octopus may be different from any other job you’ve had before. In many companies, software engineers are treated as an expense to reduce or a revenue stream to increase. In contrast, Octopus is a product company built from the ground up by engineers, for engineers. At Octopus your effort will be appreciated because you are adding value to our products, which are our assets. Also, our customers are people just like us. This makes it easy to relate to our customers and understand what they care about most.

Octopus is not done. Many of us came to Octopus thinking “it does everything I want, how can I possibly help?” Continual changes in the software landscape present a constant stream of opportunities for us to explore. We will continue to make Octopus the best tool in its class by increasing the value Octopus offers, pushing into new territory beyond deployment automation, all the while making Octopus easier and more delightful to use for both simple and complex scenarios alike. If you like solving distributed computing problems, building delightful user experiences, or anything in between, you can do that with us.

Octopus is not a startup. We do not need venture capital, we have been a sustainably profitable business from day one. We care about building a sustainable company and we do this by helping customers succeed, leaving increased revenue as a happy byproduct.

Keep reading if you want more details about the job. Otherwise, click the button to apply and have a real conversation with one of our engineering leads.

A typical day might include

• Working where you work best, perhaps in a home office designed by you, using a device of your choosing, with or without music, in an atmosphere you create for yourself.
• Improving our onboarding experience for new customers to help them become successful with Octopus sooner.
• Working on small improvements which make the Octopus user interface more usable and delightful for experienced customers.
• Changing our TypeScript + React source code hosted in GitHub, most of it in the open, collaborating on a pull-request, then shipping a release to customers around the world via an automated build, test, and delivery pipeline, often within the same day.
• Handling an inbound support ticket from a customer, helping them succeed with Octopus, or offering advice to a customer in our community Slack workspace.
• Pairing with another software engineer or a support engineer to help them reproduce a tricky problem, helping them understand the inner workings of the Octopus user interface in the process so they can be more helpful to even more customers over time.
• Pairing with another engineer on a Zoom call to solve a technical problem or design a new feature.
• Fixing a bug using an approach like red-green-refactor to prevent customers from experiencing that bug again.
• Improving our documentation to help customers discover solutions for themselves.
• Writing a blog post about something interesting for other developers, or explaining a new feature of Octopus.

You will be a great fit for this role if

• You are a valuable individual contributor in your current job regardless of your experience.
• You are passionate about usability design and modern front-end software development.
• You care about software craftsmanship using any front-end development language or toolset.
• You are able to work independently, motivating yourself to do high-quality work on time, communicating with your teammates when you need help or when you are ready for something new.
• You enjoy collaborating with other people to solve problems, challenging each other to discover the best solution for a problem, using a balance of passion, pragmatism, and empathy.
• You are a results-oriented person, someone who is focused on iteratively delivering valuable things to your customers, someone who willingly changes direction based on clear and transparent business information, and someone who helps others do the same.

You will enjoy this role if

• You want to work on a world-class user interface built using TypeScript, React, and Material UI.
• You are a software consultant or contractor looking to invest your effort into a successful and lasting product.
• You are a valuable individual contributor looking to expand your horizons with a world-class software company.
• You like a balance of freedom and responsibility, being treated as an adult.
• You want to do the best work of your life with other like-minded people.
• You enthusiastically accept radically candid feedback, feedback that is thoughtful, timely, and directly actionable, and offer the same benefit to others.
• You enjoy solving complex distributed computing, automation, security, performance, and usability problems.
• You like working with great tools like the latest versions TypeScript and React in the development environment of your choice.
• You like working with customers directly, helping them be successful with Octopus, even if success proves to be elusive.
• You enjoy doing things the right way from the very beginning knowing you are working on a valuable asset.

Full or Part-time

The best software development job in the world? We think so.

We are looking for people who live and work in Australia to join our remote-first engineering team. You will be working on Octopus Deploy, the most popular deployment automation tool in the world. This means everything you do will positively affect the lives of thousands of other software developers around the world.

Already seen enough? Click the button to apply and have a real conversation with one of our engineering leads.

You will join one of our three development teams who work across the entire Octopus ecosystem. We shape, bet, and build using a method inspired by Shape Up. We work in 8-week cycles, focusing on directed work for 6-weeks, and cooling-down with undirected work for 2-weeks at the end of each cycle. We remove unnecessary obstacles so you can work directly with customers who are developers just like us. Our teams are software crafters care about doing things right the first time. You will probably be surprised at how collaboratively we work both inside and across our teams, even though our teams work remotely. We take pride in our hard-earned, friendly, consensus-building, and ever-improving remote-first culture.

Working at Octopus may be different from any other job you’ve had before. In many companies, software engineers are treated as an expense to reduce or a revenue stream to increase. In contrast, Octopus is a product company built from the ground up by engineers, for engineers. At Octopus your effort will be appreciated because you are adding value to our products, which are our assets. Also, our customers are people just like us. This makes it easy to relate to our customers and understand what they care about most.

Octopus is not done. Many of us came to Octopus thinking “it does everything I want, how can I possibly help?” Continual changes in the software landscape present a constant stream of opportunities for us to explore. We will continue to make Octopus the best tool in its class by increasing the value Octopus offers, pushing into new territory beyond deployment automation, all the while making Octopus easier and more delightful to use for both simple and complex scenarios alike. If you like solving distributed computing problems, building delightful user experiences, or anything in between, you can do that with us.

Octopus is not a startup. We do not need venture capital, we have been a sustainably profitable business from day one. We care about building a sustainable company and we do this by helping customers succeed, leaving increased revenue as a happy byproduct.

Keep reading if you want more details about the job. Otherwise, click the button to apply and have a real conversation with one of our engineering leads.

A typical day might include

• Working where you work best, perhaps in a home office designed by you, using a device of your choosing, with or without music, in an atmosphere you create for yourself.
• Developing, refining and influencing architectural direction of the product
• Changing our TypeScript + React source code hosted in GitHub, most of it in the open, collaborating on a pull-request, then shipping a release to customers around the world via an automated build, test, and delivery pipeline, often within the same day.
• Handling an inbound support ticket from a customer, helping them succeed with Octopus, or offering advice to a customer in our community Slack workspace.
• Pairing with another software engineer or a support engineer to help them reproduce a tricky problem, helping them understand the inner workings of Octopus in the process so they can be more helpful to even more customers over time.
• Pairing with another engineer on a Zoom call to solve a complex technical problem or design a new feature.
• Fixing a bug using an approach like red-green-refactor to prevent customers from experiencing that bug again.
• Improving our documentation to help customers discover solutions for themselves, and learn how to use Octopus for more complicated workflows.
• Writing a blog post about something interesting for other developers, or explaining a new feature of Octopus.

You will be a great fit for this role if

• You are an experienced individual contributor or leader in your current job.
• You are passionate about usability design and modern front-end software development.
• You are comfortable making good architectural decisions taking dependency, extensibility, and compatibility into account
• You enjoy automating things like builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks.
• You are able to work independently, motivating yourself to do high-quality work on time, communicating with your teammates when you need help or when you are ready for something new.
• You enjoy collaborating with other people to solve problems, challenging each other to discover the best solution for a problem, using a balance of passion, pragmatism, and empathy.
• You are a results-oriented person, someone who is focused on iteratively delivering valuable things to your customers, someone who willingly changes direction based on clear and transparent business information, and someone who helps others do the same.

You will enjoy this role if

• You want to work on a world-class user interface built using TypeScript, React, and Material UI.
• You are a software consultant or contractor looking to invest your effort into a successful and lasting product.
• You are a valuable individual contributor looking to expand your horizons with a world-class software company.
• You like a balance of freedom and responsibility, being treated as an adult.
• You want to do the best work of your life with other like-minded people.
• You enthusiastically accept radically candid feedback, feedback that is thoughtful, timely, and directly actionable, and offer the same benefit to others.
• You enjoy solving complex distributed computing, automation, security, performance, and usability problems.
• You like working with great tools like the latest versions TypeScript and React in the development environment of your choice.
• You like working with customers directly, helping them be successful with Octopus, even if success proves to be elusive.
• You enjoy doing things the right way from the very beginning knowing you are working on a valuable asset.

• Work as part of a dynamic team on the development of Health Desk
• Deliver across product life-cycle, from concept/requirements to final product
• Integrate product with our customers and business partners
• Work directly with clients to gather custom requirements and provide product training
• Author training material and documentation to be provided to clients
• Provide timely and professional customer support when required.
• Improve processes to accelerate delivery timelines
• Code must be clean and easy to understand

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field
• 5+ Year’s experience with javascript front-end development technologies and tools, including experience with the following: npm, Webpack, CommonJS, Facebook React, Flux architecture.
• 5+ year's experience with ASP.NET (Web Forms and MVC), C#,SQL Server, HTML, CSS, javascript, NHibernate, Ninject, RabbitMQ, MassTransit, TopShelf, TeamCity, Octopus, NUnit.
• Self starter that must be able to work independently on all aspects of software development from requirements gathering to delivery
• Customer facing skills
• Experience with Azure