Senior Software Engineer at Education Perfect

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.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our EdPotential team and work alongside some of the most talented and creative professionals in the industry.

The EdPotential team is responsible for our school data analytics product, which is widely used to help improve student outcomes and save teachers time.

What you will do

• Develop secure, scalable, and maintainable cloud services across our tech stack. Our EdPotential product uses Java, GWT, and Terraform; but you can also expect to work in Python, SQL and other tooling as required. Experience in C#, TypeScript, and React could be beneficial.
• Build product features in small increments through an iterative process and deliver them continuously to production.
• Work closely within a small high performing team to solve customer problems at speed.
• Collaborate and contribute to larger initiatives, technical improvements, and production operations.
• Champion best practice data, security and development processes whilst making a beautiful product that customers love to use.

About you

• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and operating cloud software at scale.
• Experience working in a start up environment, working quickly & iteratively in a small team.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to operate effectively in a small cross-functional team.
• Ability to make good decisions informed by product goals, domain knowledge and sound engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to manage risk, ambiguity and dependencies.
• A growth mindset and a keen sense of ownership.
• Experience with data pipeline tools and/or charting and reporting libraries would be a strong plus.

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.

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.