Senior Software Engineer

Education Perfect is an EdTech platform designed to empower educators and amplify their impact in the classroom. We aim to enable teachers to personalise learning at scale with a range of powerful learning, assessment, and insights tools, helping them and their students reach their full potential.

As an EPeep, you’ll work on projects that have a real impact on students' lives and have the freedom, support and resources you need to develop your skills and grow your career.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering team. This role focuses on developing secure, scalable and maintainable cloud services, collaborating across teams and contributing to the growth of our generative AI capabilities. You will work closely with product managers, designers and engineers to deliver customer-centric solutions while mentoring and supporting team members in a collaborative and inclusive environment.

What you will do

• Develop secure, scalable, and maintainable cloud services using technologies like C#, Kafka, Terraform, TypeScript and React.
• Collaborate with the AI enablement team on Python-based services and prompt engineering for generative AI
• Create incremental customer value by delivering continuous updates to production
• Partner with product managers and designers to address open-ended customer challenges
• Work with other teams on technical improvements, larger initiatives and production operations
• Provide mentorship and support to other engineers, fostering a safe and inclusive team environment

About you

• 5+ years of experience designing, developing and operating cloud software at scale
• Experience with building generative AI product features is highly desirable
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively in flat, cross-functional teams
• Strong decision-making skills, informed by team goals, domain knowledge and engineering principles
• Capability to manage risk, ambiguity and dependencies effectively
• A growth mindset with a strong sense of ownership
• Experience working with distributed teams in global engineering organisations

Equitable opportunities, growth, and development lie at the heart of how we work at EP. We understand that not all applicants may possess all the following attributes so if you think you have what it takes, but are not sure you check every box, we would love to still hear from you!

What we offer

• As our team is based globally, we offer both remote and flexible working arrangements
• For our remote workers, a communication allowance towards your monthly internet or phone charges and $1000 towards setting up your home office
• Three extra days of annual leave during our end of year shut down period, parental leave top ups and a community service day
• Wellness allowance to use on anything to support your mental and physical wellness
• EAP with unlimited sessions
• Employee Equity Bonus Plan
• Employee referral program - $2000 when you refer a new team member
• Ongoing professional development, including opportunities to develop your career into other areas of our business and access to EPs Learning Hub 
• EP support groups - Mana Wahine, DEI, Environmental Impact and Wellness Committees
• The opportunity to work within a growing global business with Diversity Works accreditation, Carbon Net Zero BCorp status, Digital Promise certification, and an unwavering commitment to our mission, people, and community

We celebrate individuality, value diversity, and understand that flexible and remote work opportunities enable our team members to work in a way that fosters creativity and inspires individual brilliance. When you work with us, you're not just joining a company - you're joining a team united by the desire to make a difference.