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Lapis
Founded in Australia, Lapis is a service consultancy organisation who specialise in building software to help influence climate and environmental regulation through technology and spatial mapping in both the public and private sectors in Australia.
Key Points
- Role
- Mid-Senior Full Stack Developer
- Location
- Across Australia and New Zealand
- Salary
- $120K + Super - 140K + Super
- Tech Stack
- .Net/.Netcore/ Azure/ React/ Typescript
- Company size
- ~20 People
- Funding stage
- Profitable
What Lapis is all about
Lapis, also known as Spatial Vision, is a service consultancy organisation known for their expertise in software technology and spatial vision. With a specialisation in climate change, environmental regulations aimed at governments, and special mapping, Lapis builds close trusting relationships with their clients (many of which are very long standing) to provide top tier mobile and web applications.
The team at Lapis focuses on doing good work with a strong social conscious for the benefit of the greater community. A few examples of specific areas they have focused on in the recent past are carbon trading, biodiversity, agriculture and farming.
Lapis itself is 100% about software development and they offer these services to both public and private sector partners. To note, due to their field of expertise, the bulk of their powerhouse projects are greenfield and digital transformation projects within the federal and state governments across Australia. They are looking to grow by a few new employees by mid-this year to help with some of the exciting projects they have coming up.
Mid-Senior Full Stack Developer Role
This is where you come in! Lapis is looking to add a mid-senior level back-end leaning Full Stack Developer to the team who specialises in .Net, Azure and React. The Full Stack Developer will operate within an exciting greenfield federal project that they have just brought on with Carbon Plus. The multi-million dollar project with Carbon Plus is slated to run for 5 years (it has already been running for about 2 years at the moment).
Carbon Plus is building a platform at the moment that is aimed to assist Australian farmers create projects to apply for funding for different government projects, for example ones aimed at biodiversity conservation and carbon trading. The idea of this platform is to capture useful information about the farmers’ farms and to streamline funding applications. Working in collaboration with Carbon Plus, Aussie Farmers in the ACT and QLD, ANU, and the Department of Law, the team at Lapis is currently working on the BETA version of this yet to be named platform, so rest assured there is a lot of dense and interesting development work to get done.
There is a big focus on upgrading the platform from traditional to a highly agile, fast and modern delivery environment, while also monitoring existing programs.
What’s special about this role?
Work in a highly collaborative team where your ideas will be heard
Have the power to contribute ideas, use and experiment with new technologies and tech stacks in a take-risks environment
Pathway to accelerated career growth
Accelerate your career development (check with Hiroki on this)
Do Meaningful Work that Positively Benefits the Community
Work on development projects with a strong socially conscious aspect to the work especially in terms of environment protection
The details
The Team
Within a team of 18 people, Lapis’s development department is currently split up into three cross-functional squads, with a view of growing to four down the line, with a view that each squad works on different client projects. The project with Carbon Plus consists of two front end developers and one automated tester/ QA from Lapis and the Head of Product and Head of Design from Carbon Plus. Lapis’ Technical Lead and Principal Software Architect help out as well between squads.
They are a highly agile and fast-moving team and prefer to practice modern development practices like Test Driven Development, CI/CD and collaboration in their programming and problem-solving.
Culture & Values
Lapis’ core values that their team members live and breathe are communication and vulnerability. They provide employees with assistance to an EAP (Employee Assistance Program) to make sure that their mental health is being taken care of. They also emphasize work-life balance and flexible working opportunities.
They are also a highly collaborative and supportive team as previously mentioned and they put a big emphasis on learning and growing as a team and individually in an environment where they are keen to let people do what they need to do in the best way that they can. The team frequently do lunch and learns and “Fix It Fridays.”
Financials & Benefits
Lapis provides great opportunities for growth, development and mentorship for their team members. For example, they are currently putting many of their developers through an AWS certification course. They also make a lot of time for knowledge sharing sessions and regular 1v1s with, not only managers, but also the tech leads for hands-on learning opportunities.
As mentioned, they also provide access to an EAP, flexible working opportunities for team members, and are toying with the idea of trialing a work from anywhere in the world policy in the next year.