SKUTOPIA is on a mission to democratise and decarbonise logistics.
SKUTOPIA is a deep-tech logistics company operating under a dual RaaS (Robotics-as-a-Service) and SaaS model. We deliver end-to-end, AI-powered robotic fulfilment for retailers - eliminating inefficiencies inherent in traditional 3PL models, such as human error, high labour costs, and carbon-heavy processes.
Our advanced robotics and proprietary AI empower our customers to scale faster with high-speed, high-quality fulfilment at a fraction of the typical cost - while also driving both revenue and profit growth.
Founded in 2018 by Talea Bader and Emily Townsend, SKUTOPIA began as Sydney’s first eCommerce co-working space. After witnessing firsthand the logistics challenges faced by SMBs, the founders evolved the business into a tech-first fulfilment solution.
We are enabling and empowering businesses by decarbonising and democratising e-commerce via our all in one platform - skutopia.com! We launched Australia's first automated micro-fulfilment centre! Using robotics, computer vision, and great software, we're giving eCommerce merchants the ability to compete on an even footing against the likes of Amazon.
We have shaken up and disrupted the e-commerce logistics industry, which has led to huge exponential growth. The next step on our journey is to scale our fulfilment offering into a fulfilment network, with many fulfilment centres domestically and internationally!
Job Description
As a product engineer you will:
- Be a crucial member to drive our products forward. Working closely with product managers, product designers and fellow product engineers to enhance Skutopia’s feature set, delivering value for our customers
- Design and deliver high quality software. You will take on the challenges of designing our software for both today and for the future. You’ll gather requirements, seek feedback, and launch solutions that make a meaningful impact
- You thrive by collaborating with your fellow engineers, product team members, customer success, and our operations staff working in our fulfilment centres. You engage and take inspiration from different viewpoints and the challenges they have
- You are proud to participate in and contribute towards fostering an inclusive culture. Where everyone is welcome, and everyone has their voice heard. You embrace our diverse working environment
- You have a scale-up mindset. You understand how to ship incremental value and how to test a hypothesis. You look to contribute outside of your comfort zone where you have the ability to do so
From a tech perspective, we’re working with TypeScript, Node, React, Postgres, GraphQL. Most of our applications use Event Sourcing and our code follows a Functional Programming paradigm. We use Pulumi for IaC and our applications run on Google Cloud Platform. We know good engineers can transition between frameworks. If this isn’t your background, don’t let that put you off!
You will primarily be working on our fulfilment centre products - building out our warehouse management system, integrating into physical hardware (robots, conveyor systems, box printing machines), as well as developing frontend solutions for our operations staff.
How we work:
We work in a remote first environment, but we do have plenty of staff that work from the office. This gives you the flexibility to work how you like to. We trust people to manage their time and work the hours that suit them. We put an emphasis on being collaborative and communicative ensuring people aren’t left on their own.
We keep track of what’s happening with Linear and Confluence and use Slack and Google Meet to stay in touch. We also use incident.io to manage our incident response and learning process, and we use a mix of asynchronous and synchronous communication to limit unnecessary meetings.
Career progression:
At Skutopia, we are intentionally building a small team that packs a big punch. You will have the opportunity to have a significant impact taking on a lot of responsibility and accountability to deliver our goals. We want the best engineers, and we want to enable you to be one of the best engineers. We will invest in your career goals, and work to make them actionable.
Recruitment process:
- 20-30 minute chat with one of our engineering managers
- 45 minute engineering culture interview
- Take home challenge
- 1 hour technical interview
- 45 minute - Product, design, and business culture
When you join us, you’ll be an important pillar of a rapidly growing company. From day one you will be challenged to take risks, think big and make an impact while getting lots of love and support from the team. With our expected growth over the next 12 months, this is a role with plenty of breadth and variety where you can grow with us and be proud of what we achieve together.
We proudly welcome people from all diverse backgrounds. When you join SKUTOPIA, we want you to bring your whole self to work and we value your unique contribution.
What's next?
If you're keen to find out more, apply now with your resume and we'll be in touch soon to schedule an initial screening call where we will walk you through the recruitment process. Usually, we kick things off with a “getting to know you” interview, then we’ll ask you to tackle a take-home challenge or case study, and wrap it up with a final interview.
Still on the fence?
We know that statistically, some groups are less likely to apply for a role than others, depending on their perception of whether they meet some or all of the criteria. If you have most of the things we're looking for, we encourage you to apply!
