Careers at Arkade

We love our clients and their customers

We love building all things Customer Experience, from the strategy to the solution design, and from research to development.  And because we’re always growing, we’re always on the lookout for passionate individuals to join our talented team. Back end, front end and full stack developers, email platform developers, product owners, CX strategists, researchers and designers are always high on our list of valuable team members to find as our list of clients continues to grow.

View the opportunities below or let us know if you think you have what it takes to be an Arkadian. We always like hearing from amazing developers, strategists and designers that love creating valuable customer experiences as much as we do.

Our Values

On Board

A common goal and purpose with no passengers. We get the job done consistently with a sense of intensity and tenacity.

Ownership

Having an ownership mentality of everything we do. We own our ability to make decisions and the decisions we make, the work we produce and the way we act.

Consistent

We have our way of doing things. While always evolving to improve and adapt to change, our way of working ensures consistency and predictability for all those who belong.

Current opportunities

Full Stack Developer

We’re on the hunt for an experienced Full Stack Developer, to help us bring CX solutions and initiatives to life for our clients. In this role, you’ll get to work with some of Australia’s top retailers including Snooze, The Academy Brand, MJ Bale and DECJUBA.

You will work closely with talented CX strategists, designers and developers, shaping new and innovative ideas into meaningful platforms. You will mentor and collaborate with other developers, and love taking a role in ensuring the robustness and sophistication the delivered initiative.

In this position you need to keep in mind that if you design a solution, you need to know how to run it, host it, deploy it, document it and support it. All with a smile on your face and a skip in your step. Unless of course it’s one of those moments when swearing helps… Did we mention we have Friday afternoon Uber Eats and beers? It really takes the edge off.

Of course, we kid. Not about the food and beers (we’d never joke about that), but that you’d need to take the edge off. You’ll be part of a great team of developers that all work in house in our Melbourne CBD office, and have the chance to really learn about the in-demand industry of high quality Customer Experience strategy, loyalty and retail technology. What’s not to love?

For us to love you, we’re looking for someone who is both professional and personable who can bring both knowledge and proactivity as well as a good sense of humour to the table. If you’re flexible, collaborative, willing to learn and able to think on your feet and talk confidently with clients then we’d love to have you on our team!

If this sounds like you so far, here’s a little about the tech knowledge we’re looking for.

If you can bring some of these skills to the agency with you each day then let us know about it and apply!

you got skills?

• Front End Skills & Experience

  • React, Redux, React Router

  • React Native

  • Vue

  • SCSS/SASS

  • Webpack

  • ES6/2015

  • NPM/Yarn

  • Fetch / Ajax

  • JS Frameworks (preferably React or Vue)

Platform Experience

• Shopify

• Zendesk

• Mailchimp

• Campaign Monitor

• Sendgrid

Back End Skills & Experience

• PHP frameworks including Laravel, Symfony & AWS

• MySQL, PostgreSQL

• Queuing, Caching

• Unit testing (PHP Unit or equivalent)

• Logging

• Building RESTful APIs

Infrastructure Knowledge & Experience

• AWS: RDS, S3, SQS, EB, EC2

• CI / CD

• Version Control (GIT)

• NGINX / Apache

Bonus Points 

• Docker / Kubernetes

• Google Cloud

Front End Skills & Experience

• React, Redux, React Router

• React Native

• Vue

• SCSS/SASS

• Webpack

• ES6/2015

• NPM/Yarn

• Fetch / Ajax

• JS Frameworks (preferably React or Vue)