Software Developer

you’re looking for.
Learning opportunities - the environment and psychological safety to learn skills that you’re not necessarily comfortable with, and the ability to learn from others in No Moss.
Working as a team on problems - you don’t have to work on something alone.
The ability to use your current skills within an environment that values innovation and doing good, while developing yourself and your skills towards your purpose.
A consultancy that can offer full time, flexible working and part-time opportunities, all which allow for satisfying and challenging work, while leaving room for the pursuit of yourself.

no moss in a nutshell.
At No Moss, our purpose is our people’s purpose. That means that every day, we’re looking for ways to help you find your purpose, and spend your life in its pursuit and maximisation. We call that the #PursuitOfTheUngooglable.

No Moss is an Agility, Product Development and Tech Consultancy, although we are less of a company than an anarchist commune of highly driven people who have aligned purposes. Together, we are looking at radically new ways to create economic value together, across technical innovation, consultancy, products and doing good.

We work with clients, from visionary founders with a dream, to budding scale ups with millions in funding and market traction, to well established enterprises in the top ASX 20. We work across a wide variety of industries, from retail to non profit to banking to aged care.

We also ensure about 10% of our profits go directly toward our non-profit partners, including One Child and Cause Corps; and our skilled volunteering opportunities are directed toward the latter.
As a consultancy, we provide a special rate card accessible only to non profits, helping everything from Indigenous students get connected to scholarships to teaching kids about recycling and ocean plastic via games.

We, and hopefully you, want to learn and grow and #DoTheUngooglable. We have a deep culture of teaching and learning: “a rolling stone gathers no moss”, looking after each other: “it’s okay to not be okay”, and customer delight: “a certain polish."

you need.
A consultancy, a product incubator, an innovation hub that prizes three things:

• a system of radical transparency. We have an environment of psychological safety, where we are safe to fail. We talk about the customers we lose openly and the reasons why we lost them so we can talk about how to improve together; we publish our games (failed or successful) online to demonstrate our learning journey; We have an internally transparent salary grading and rate card, allowing everybody to know what everybody else makes for themselves and for the company. We make all this and more visible all the time to allow our people to focus instead on making things (and each other) better.
• a place that values drive. On your first day, expect to be handed a blank sheet of paper and asked: what is your purpose in life? You’ll be asked to think about it, and declare it openly and hang it on the office wall, alongside those of every other no mosser. You’ll spend your career with us in its renewal, pursuit, refinement and sometimes rejection of this declared purpose as you discover something else. Along the way, you’ll gain mastery of your craft (if you don’t already have it); perhaps a mastery of a (few) new crafts; and definitely mastery of teaching others what you know.
• An ecosystem of wholeness. We like you for all of you; not just the ‘work face’ you’ve been putting on. We like that you were a childhood piano prodigy, or had a previous career in construction. We respect that you dedicate your spare time to writing science fiction, or what you really care about is surfing with your children. We admire that your purpose is to take people off the streets, to create safe environments for people to grow and excel, or to challenge the notion that work-life balance isn’t just ‘life balance’. There’s room for diversity of thought at no moss, and we’re privileged to continually better our ecosystem toward that end.

you like.
Getting stuff done and sharing what you already know. You want to add to these organisational learnings and make us better. You enjoy putting the extra (smartly chosen) mile in to not work hard, but work effectively. You like and encourage conversations where we celebrate failing – personal, team-based, organisational – and subsequent learning.

you expect.
A place where people are good at listening and incredible at taking appropriate action. Other people who are purpose driven. People who value psychological safety. To be free to challenge the status quo and each other. An ecosystem of people who are outside their comfort zone nearly all the time, working mostly in their learning zone, occasionally edging into their terror zone.

we like.
People who are connected to our story and are inspired to be part of a community. People who want to give back to ecosystems that are finding new, more human ways of working.
our people.
Ask each other and the people we work with - “How are you?” and listen. They independently seek to learn and grow, and are motivated to teach and grow others. We rise to challenges and are resourceful in solving problems. And importantly we celebrate each other’s success.

we expect.
People who do what they say and say what they’ll do. Outcome driven people who have a history of trying – resulting in both successes and learnings from their failures. People who love any one of technical innovation, products and strategic consulting.

we need.
We are looking for Mid-level Software Developers who have a love for solving challenging technical problems, while also having a deep human drive to help those around you be better and more capable people, and are a champion for continuous improvement of the practices in your team.
We need you to have the confidence and ability to self manage in a consulting environment. You are someone who has experience of, and is equally excited about coaching junior developers, and can foster a safe and collaborative team environment.
You are an outcome driven person who has a history of trying – resulting in both successes and learning from your failures.
We are an organisation who is passionate about growing our ecosystem with individuals who ask ‘why’, have a growth mindset, and who have the same values as we do. We are looking for the right people, and once we find you we can scale and develop your experience to suit our clients and your purpose.

joining as an Mid-level Software Developer, you will:

• Have an ability to assist in the design and architecture of a system you work on, provide input on how to best use the data available to achieve outcomes and deep dive into problem areas.
• Identify, prioritise, and execute tasks in an agile software development team.
• Work in a team with others to always help each other deliver value and unblock one another on a day to day basis.
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean efficient code.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting where needed.
• Be value focused - understand how to collaboratively work towards building the most valuable part of any system, with the information available right now. Resist the urge to gold plate in favour of building increments of code that can be validated and which deliver value to stakeholders.
• Build a shared understanding of technical solutions with both technical and business stakeholders, such as facilitating workshops, developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, code comments and clear code.
• Lead and participate in practices that add to the software quality, such as reviewing pull requests, configuring linter rules, setting up automated testing and performing validation and verification testing.
• Independently seek to learn, grow, and are motivated to advise, teach and grow others.
• Requirements:
• You are competent in at least one of the following web application frameworks and languages. This could include VueJS + Javascript/HTML/CSS, React + Typescript/HTML/CSS, Django + Python, NETCore + C#, Spring Boot + Java, Laravel/Symfony/CakePHP or Express (or similar) + Node.js.
• You have experience advising and mentoring others, and this is something you want to develop further.
• You have a willingness to apply the principles of software engineering in new environments, on new platforms and to new business domains.
• Our developer opportunities are based in either Sydney or Melbourne, albeit we are currently remote working due to Covid conditions.
• You're an Australian citizen or hold a current visa to work in Australia.

Desirable, but not essential

• Experience with developing AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Devops experience; setting up automated deployments, infrastructure as code and monitoring and logging.
• Understanding of container technologies like Docker and AWS Elastic Container Service.
• Understanding of frontend web hosting solutions like AWS S3 and AWS CloudFront.
• Experience writing automated tests in a web application project.
• Previous experience working in a consulting environment.

why No Moss?
Our culture and eco-system are important to us. If our purpose, vision and culture resonate with you, reach out to us. And in addition to that we also have a few other perks;

• Our purpose is our people’s purpose. It underpins everything we do. That means that every day, we are looking for ways to help you find your purpose, and spend your life in its pursuit and maximisation. An ecosystem of wholeness. We like you for all of you; not just the ‘work face’.
• Flexible working arrangements – This could be part-time work, or selecting which will be your office days when we can return to an office again.
• Access to your own personal development coach
• 6 weeks Paid Parental Leave at full salary for primary carer (not including government-funded parental leave).
• 2 weeks Paid Parental Leave at full salary for secondary carer.
• Continuation of superannuation payments whilst on paid and unpaid Parental Leave.
• Opportunities to purchase leave.
• Giving back. About 10% of our profits go directly toward our non-profit partners, including One Child and our paid volunteer days with Cause Corps, our not-for-profit micro-volunteering organisation whose mission is to "make doing good a daily habit."

If you have read all of this and feel that No Moss is the organisation for you, but this position isn’t quite what you are after, please get in touch regardless via [email protected]. Tell us your purpose and what you'd like to be doing, so we can give it some consideration for positions in the future.

All applicants will be reviewed via this link: https://apply.workable.com/nomoss/j/F4DB4A3B00/