Web Developer at Lyssna

In A Nutshell

Lead the design, development and delivery of our marketing site using Next.js and Storyblok, helping us drive our brand forward.

A Little About You

You’re a skilled web developer with a keen eye for design, capable of bringing concepts to life in a way that resonates with users. Your expertise lies in front-end development, particularly with Next.js, and you’re comfortable working with a headless CMS like Storyblok. Your skillset lies at the intersection between design and development, ensuring that your work not only functions well but also looks stunning.

You thrive in a collaborative environment and are excited to work within a cross-functional marketing team to create and deliver new web features and campaigns. You’re adaptable, eager to learn, and passionate about staying ahead of industry trends. You enjoy sharing your knowledge and learning from others, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.

You’re driven by the desire to solve problems creatively, focusing on user-centric solutions that align with marketing goals. You enjoy the challenge of balancing design aesthetics with technical precision, ensuring a seamless experience for end-users.

Who We Are

Lyssna (formerly UsabilityHub) is a remote research platform that helps our customers deeply understand their audience and make informed decisions quickly. Our mission is to improve the quality of experiences in the world by putting people at the heart of solutions. Founded in 2008, we’re a bootstrapped B2B SaaS platform focused on sustainable growth, with a global, fully remote team. We’re growing and looking for top talent to help scale our mission.

Why We Need You

As we expand our marketing efforts, we need a talented web developer to design, build, maintain, and optimise our web presence. You’ll be part of our marketing team, working with Claire, Meagan and Diane to ensure our digital assets are top-notch and aligned with our brand strategy. You’ll also work closely with our engineering team, sharing best practices and developing your software engineering craft alongside the rest of the team. Your work will help us engage our audience more effectively, driving both customer acquisition and retention.

How We Work

• We’re impact-driven and passionate about delivering value to our customers, prioritizing delivery over perfection.
• We support each other and understand that individual success is dependent on the success of everyone else. We invest in our personal and professional growth and consider learning, reflection, and up-skilling central to our jobs.
• We’re a small but mighty team, competing with companies 2-4x our size.
• We hire great people, give them autonomy, and value feedback to constantly improve.

Picture Yourself In The Role

If you were here for this sprint, you would have:

• Designed and implemented a new landing page that visually communicates our latest campaign, collaborating closely with Diane (senior content marketing manager) on content
• Worked with Claire (director of marketing) and our SEO agency to plan out optimizations to our marketing site’s SEO
• Joined the marketing team daily standup, sharing updates on your work in flight, and aligning around the team’s goals for the week
• Refactored part of the marketing site codebase to make the code cleaner and easier to work with
• Paired with Irene (senior software engineer) on a pagespeed performance issue
• Attended the engineering team meeting and discussed how we can improve our technical practices
• Participated in a team ideation workshop around a new product feature we’re planning

Location

This role is open to candidates within Australia who are able to work AEST hours, or within New Zealand working NZST hours.

Salary

At Lyssna, we use a fixed salary formula to ensure compensation is fair and transparent. All team members with the same title and location start on the same compensation, and have the opportunity for salary increases based on performance.

As this is a new role, we are still calibrating the compensation and seniority level. For this role, we expect our Australian base salary for new starters to be around $125k AUD plus superannuation, profit share and ESOP. We expect our New Zealand base salary for new starters to be around $130k NZD plus KiwiSaver, profit share and ESOP.

Perks and Benefits

📅 Flexible work: We make sure work fits your lifestyle by offering a choice between a 5, 4.5, or 4 day work week (pro-rata). We’re fully remote.

💰 Employee profit sharing & equity: We share in our success by offering all team members a percentage of profits and access to our employee share options program.

👶 Generous parental leave: We support growing families with 14 weeks paid leave for primary carers and 6 weeks for secondary carers.

📚 Dedicated development & growth: We offer AU$1,500 per year for you to spend on books, courses, and events, along with six paid Level Up days.

💻 Workspace: Whether you’re working from home or a co-working space, we’ll help you with what you need to do your best work.

😄 Wellbeing support & coaching: To help all our people be well and work well, we provide access to a complimentary and confidential Employee Assistance Program, performance coaching, and an annual number of doona days.

The interview process

For this role, our interview process has four steps:

• Introductory call (online, 30 minutes): A conversation to discuss the role, the team and your relevant experience and suitability. This interview will be with Claire (Director of Marketing) or Nick (CTO).
  
• Technical interview (online, 2 hours): A technical interview comprising a coding exercise, a design exercise, and a series of technical questions. You’ll get to meet some of the other engineers on the team as part of this interview.
• Final interview (online, 1 hour): A conversation focused on how you work in teams, our company values, and alignment around expectations of the role. This interview will be with Claire (Director of Marketing) and Nick (CTO).
• Reference checks: We’ll speak with a couple of your references to answer any remaining questions we have around fit. We also conduct a police check for Australian residents (a requirement for SOC 2).
  

If you have any questions around the process we’re always happy to share more context in the introductory call.

Keen to apply?

Please upload your resume or LinkedIn profile (include links to your portfolio, personal website, and GitHub account if you have one), a cover letter to introduce yourself and why you’d be a good fit for the role, and fill in your responses to these questions in the application form:

1. Name one company whose website design you love, and tell us what you like about it.
2. What’s one thing you see commonly in frontend development but you think isn’t the best approach? Why? What do you think is better?
3. What do you enjoy most about being a web developer?