About us

Calibre is an (intentionally) small company building a web performance platform to help create faster, more equitable internet. We have hundreds of customers and thousands of users from all over the world. We pride ourselves on building thoughtful, easy to use tools with less.

We value a supportive environment, sustainable growth and are in it for the long haul. Our purpose is to serve people: our customers, teammates and the community. Learn more about us and how we think about work.

Your role

Here’s how we work together and what you can expect from this role:

• The role is permanent and full time (four days a week). You must be eligible to work in one of the 60+ countries supported by Remote and have at least 2 hours of overlap with Melbourne, Australia to apply for this role. We don’t offer relocation at this time.
• We are a small company which means each person we hire becomes a lead of their area of expertise. We will expect you to contribute high-quality code, establish processes and make architecture decisions to improve the front-end at Calibre.
• You’ll be working on a diverse set of tasks. While we focus on bigger initiatives, no two days are the same. You might be building a new interface for Calibre, creating a landing page for our marketing site, helping maintain our design systems or updating technical documentation.
• We rely on resilient and modern technologies. You’ll be working in an environment including React, Next.js, CSS-in-JS (Styled System and Styled Components), Apollo, GraphQL and Ruby on Rails.
• We use tools that help us do our best work. You’ll collaborate primarily via Linear, Slack, Notion, GitHub and Figma.
• We value deep work and written communication, which is why we’re light on meetings. Apart from weekly team sync and fortnightly 1:1, you can focus on what you do best.
• Everyone at Calibre talks to our customers. You will help with support conversations, and if you’ve never done this before, we will coach you in how we approach delivering the best customer experience.
• The salary range for this role is between A$110,000 and A$132,000 (including superannuation for Australian employees).

Your day-to-day tasks might look like this:

• Communication: we might be in a similar timezone, but we often work asynchronously. Clear, strong communication and collaboration is something that comes naturally to you.
• Building new interfaces: you’ll be primarily working on the Calibre application. Some of our upcoming projects include implementing new charts that portray a vast amount of data in an easy-to-digest way and building a responsive, customisable dashboard for performance reports and metrics.
• Housekeeping: keeping our codebase in tip-top shape is as important as building new features. You’ll ensure our dependencies are up-to-date, work on web performance improvements, refactor old code and address customer issues raised in our support channels.

You will work with:

• Ben Schwarz, CEO and Founder
• Karolina Szczur, Co-founder and Design Lead
• Our upcoming Lead Back-end Developer (Rails)

About you

It’s important to us that whoever joins Calibre thrives in this role. Here are skills and knowledge that will set you up for success:

• You appreciate and understand the web’s foundational technologies (such as, but not limited to HTML, CSS, SVG and JavaScript).
• You have built and maintained React and CSS-in-JS applications and component systems.
• You appreciate good design and are excited to collaborate with a designer to build delightful, fast and accessible interfaces. You sweat the small details and own the quality of your work.
• You care about the impact of your code on customers from multiple axes: privacy, security, experience and usability.
• Your process involves documenting your work. Your code is understandable and predictable to your colleagues.
• You know the benefits and tradeoffs of different JavaScript rendering modes to build near-instant experiences.
• You’re comfortable working with APIs to get the data you need.
• You’re self-motivated and can work independently. You take the initiative to ensure that you have everything you need to work efficiently and call for support when required.