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
SafetyCulture's platform is used by frontline teams across some of the world's most complex organisations. The way we model permissions, manage access, and enforce security boundaries directly determines whether those organisations trust us with their most sensitive operations.

This role exists to own the technical direction of how SafetyCulture handles identity, access control, and permissions at scale — and to make that capability genuinely best-in-class. 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.

We use a modern technology stack including Swift/Kotlin/C++ (mobile); React.js (front end); Golang/node.js (back end); AWS/Kafka/Kubernetes (infrastructure).

Own architecture and technical direction for role-based access control (RBAC), 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

Deep backend expertise with production experience designing access control systems (RBAC, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, or similar)

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

You give honest feedback, receive it well, and invest in the people around you as much as your own output

You move without waiting for a perfect brief, and you think 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)