The Company
Checkbox is a Series A technology start-up entering our scale-up phase following a successful Series A funding round. Our mission is to enable meaningful work for all by empowering non-technical teams to build and automate their own workflows. We believe the power of digital creation should be accessible to everyone, not just IT teams.
Our no-code platform is used by global organisations including Deloitte, Coca-Cola, Allianz, and the Singapore Government. More recently, we expanded our offering beyond automation with the launch of our AI-powered Matter Management product – the “JIRA for lawyers.” This forms part of our broader vision to become the Legal Service Hub within organisations, powering how legal work is raised, allocated, managed, and resolved.
As a company, we are a tight-knit, high-performing team of around 50 people across Australia, the United States, and Asia, including Forbes 30 Under 30 co-founders and leaders from global SaaS success stories. Our culture is one of our greatest strengths: open, direct, collaborative, and built on trust and continuous growth. Learn more about what makes someone a “Checkmate”: https://www.checkbox.ai/core-values.
The Position
As one of our staff software engineers, you will join a tight-knit team of passionate and intelligent people. We value individual impact, trust, ownership, and continuous growth. Engineers at Checkbox are core to our success, and we continuously invest in building a strong engineering culture that enables great work.
You will work across a codebase built primarily with Node.js, Express, Typescript with REST Api architecture, Relational Databases (Postgres) and AWS (SQS, Lambda), and as part of one of our product engineering teams, you will have significant ownership over end-to-end feature development with visible product impact.
What You Will Do
Design, architect, and build a wide range of interesting and challenging features
Build and maintain high-performance, scalable services in Typescript, Node and Express.
Contribute to a future-ready, high-quality, and performant codebase
Share technical ideas and solutions through design reviews and code reviews
Promote and practise best-practice engineering standards and processes
Your skills:
At least 5 years of commercial experience building complex, enterprise software systems
Experience with Node.js and HTTP frameworks such as Express.js
Understanding of TypeScript principles in modern web development
Production experience with PostgreSQL or other SQL databases
Growth mindset and commitment to ongoing development
Ability to produce effective, reliable, and clean code
Positive, fun, and collaborative approach to work
Nice To Have
Experience building BPM, workflow, low-code/no-code platforms
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines
Experience in fast-paced start-up or scale-up environments
Track record of delivering quickly, on time, and at high quality
Why Join Us
Competitive salary and equity, join us on the journey
Hybrid working (2 days/week) with weekly team days in the Sydney CBD office
Personal learning and development budget
Flexible leave policy and salary sacrifice options
Modern CBD office stocked with snacks, drinks, premium coffee, and social spaces
Regular team lunches, Friday celebrations, and annual off-sites
Transparent, supportive, and values-driven culture focused on growth and impact
