Why join Chuffed.org?

We're a purpose-led crowdfunding platform that's amplifying the actions of ordinary people who are changing the world on issues like climate justice, Black Lives Matter and refugee rights. 

To date we’ve helped raise $100M+ across 20,000 campaigns in 23 countries and are backed by Blackbird Ventures & the Telstra Foundation.

Our team have supported the Biloela family to get back home, fought alongside the Wangan & Jagalingou Cultural Custodians to Stop Adani, and helped back the most significant climate change action groups across the world; Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, Last Generation and more. 

What you’ll do

You’ll spend your days building and maintaining the products and features that help make Chuffed the preferred crowdfunding platform for the biggest direct action groups in the world.

Here’s how you’ll spend your days:

1. Lead the development team in designing, implementing, and maintaining high-quality applications.
2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and specifications.
3. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
4. Oversee the development and implementation of scalable and efficient PHP code using PHP 8 and Laravel 10.
5. Manage and optimise MySQL databases to ensure high performance and reliability.
6. Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
7. Solutions architect a technology strategy, considering key factors as risk assessment, scaling, re-usability and resource allocation
8. Work with stakeholders to assess feasibility and deliverability of solutions
9. Understand the business context of development initiatives to align technology solutions with organisational objectives.

About You

• You have proven experience as a Senior Developer in a Laravel environment.

• You have in-depth knowledge of PHP 8 and Laravel 10, with a strong understanding of modern PHP development best practices.
• You have a strong growth mindset - you’re not afraid to take risks, fail and learn. You’re always looking for ways to develop and improve your skill set.
• You’re passionate about social justice and have a strong desire to help Chuffed campaigners succeed

Bonus points if you have

• Experience with IaC principals/tooling (Terraform)
• Front-end experience with frameworks (ReactJS)
• Experience with GraphQL APIs
• Experience with AWS (ECS, Elasticache, RDS)
• Proven success mentoring other developers

• $140k-150k plus superannuation plus equity ownership in Chuffed.org.
• We value work-life balance. Work autonomously from home and meet up with the team intermittently to collaborate in-person. We’re based in Sydney but open to remote employees within Australia. 
• Work alongside industry leading marketers and digital engineers in a small and agile team with deep industry connections
• Spend your days amplifying the work of campaigners pushing for progressive social change around the world

We’re building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages and abilities to apply. We value all kinds of experiences, so even if you don’t meet all of the requirements outlined above, we encourage you to apply.

Simple Machines’ mission is to ensure our clients get the most out of their data by designing and building modern data platforms, engineering data powered software applications and products, and enabling engineering and data driven business focussed use-cases.

We need you to help us design and deliver a fantastic program of data focussed engineering projects for our globally distributed client base.

Simple Machines is looking to hire a talented Analytics Engineers to join our amazing team.

This is a full-time hybrid role to be based in our Darlinghurst, Sydney office.

About the role

You’ll work closely with our engineering and analytics teams to understand client needs and design and successfully deliver business critical solutions.

Sound good so far?

Here’s a brief overview of the role’s responsibilities:

• Write maintainable and performant transformations in analytical warehouses.
• Work with data modellers to understand transformation requirements.
• Work with business users to produce reports or optimise reporting layers.
• Orchestration of production transformations.

What we need from you as an individual.

• Above all, be a great internal and external communicator. You’ll possess a hospitality mindset in managing and engaging collaboratively with all stakeholders, inside and outside the business
• Lead from the front and by example. You’ll take true ownership of tasks, taking responsibility for goals and outcomes
• Bring a genuine fit-for-purpose mindset to everything that you do
• Strong SQL engineering, client engagement and communication skills are an absolute must
• Demonstrate a genuine passion for technology and continually learning – a growth mindset that believes there is always, always more to know
• Exhibit a humble, low-ego attitude

The technology experience we’re looking for.

The required skills that we’re after:

• Deep experience with SQL
• Effective communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Understanding of benefits and trade-offs between analytical and transactional databases
• Experience with one or more data warehouses, e.g. Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Greenplum, Teradata.
• Experience with query performance optimisation.
• Understanding of benefits between modelling techniques, e.g. star schema, dimensional, denormalised.
• Programming experience.

The skills that we would love for you to have but that aren’t essential:

• Experience with orchestration of production data transformations, e.g. with tooling like Airflow
• Understanding of modern data formats, e.g. Parquet, Avro
• Experience with data validation and data quality techniques
• Experience with software development lifecycle tooling, e.g. git
• Experience with building data projects in DBT
• Development experience with languages such as python, spark

orking at Simple Machines

We’re looking for someone who’s as passionate as we are about building a world-class technology company specialising in engineering for data.

Just some of the benefits of working with Simple Machines include:

• Generous parental leave: Three months’ fully paid primary carer leave and one month fully paid secondary carer leave, subject to a minimum 12 month tenure.
• Learning and development: We all love continually learning and have a generous budget for you to upskill, join conferences, get certified and qualified.
• Lunch is on us. Always! We happily supply lunch at each of our office locations every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

About Simple Machines

Simple Machines isn’t your typical consultancy. Rather, we’re a firm of passionate and talented expert consultants that are as much a community as a company.

When we set out to make a difference nearly 10 years ago, we did so because we weren’t happy with the status quo of technology consultancies. We wanted to build a company we would want to hire ourselves. And we’ve done just that.

At the core of our company is a team of talented individuals, many of whom are at the top of their field. We regularly present at local and international conferences, committing to many of the open-source projects we utilise in our day-to-day engagements and release many other projects back to the broader technology community. 

It would be great if you could join us.

Apply now and let’s see where the connection takes us.