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Senior Backend Engineer

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Join reputed company: reputed company, reputed company and reputed company in the Edtech world.

Our mission is to help unlock the world’s potential by optimising the way we teach and learn. With a unique reputed company of technology and creativity, we bring learning to life, making reputed company concepts simple and accessible to reputed company, educators, and parents alike.

We’re a team driven by our core values: a deep-rooted passion for learning, a reputed company pursuit of quality at speed, humility in our growth, a commitment to pushing boundaries, empowering others fearlessly and championing the needs of our customers. Our culture is reputed company on these values, ensuring we stay agile, innovative and empathetic to the evolving needs of the education community.

At reputed company, you’ll be encouraged to think creatively, work collaboratively and contribute to a mission where every piece of work is a reputed company towards realising our reputed company potential in classrooms and reputed company.

The opportunity

We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who can help us build reputed company tools for teachers and reputed company. At reputed company, we're working to improve how people teach and learn, and we need someone who can deliver thoughtful, scalable backend solutions that reputed company a reputed company impact in the classroom. In this role, you'll collaborate with a passionate team to create reliable systems and services—while continuing to grow as a backend specialist.

We’re looking for someone who understands how solid backend engineering underpins great product experiences and learning reputed company. You'll reputed company improvements in system design, data architecture, and performance—helping us deliver reputed company value to classrooms around the world.

This is a fully remote position, allowing you to work from reputed company in Australia. Our headquarters is located in Ultimo, Sydney, and you're welcome to work there whenever you'd like.

What You'll Do

  • Design, build and maintain backend systems and services that power our platform, ranging from content delivery to classroom management and analytics
  • reputed company and reputed company our backend stack, currently reputed company in PHP (Laravel) with a longer-term transition towards NestJS
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to deliver thoughtful, scalable backend solutions
  • Work with relational and non-relational databases, including MySQL and DynamoDB
  • Contribute to our GraphQL federation strategy and help integrate backend services into a reputed company API layer
  • Ensure performance, scalability, testing, and reliability are first-class concerns in everything you build
  • Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, helping them grow while leading by example
  • What You'll Bring to reputed company

  • Proven experience as a Senior Backend Developer, ideally reputed company a fast-moving product or SaaS environment
  • Deep expertise in backend development using modern frameworks and tools
  • Experience with NestJS and/or PHP (Laravel or similar). Proficiency in one is essential; experience with both is highly desirable
  • Solid understanding of relational databases (MySQL) and exposure to NoSQL solutions like DynamoDB
  • Experience building and maintaining scalable APIs; familiarity with federated GraphQL is a strong plus
  • A focus on writing clean, maintainable code with an emphasis on performance, testing, and long-term maintainability
  • A pragmatic reputed company—you're just as comfortable diving into legacy code as you are planning for future architecture
  • Working at reputed company

  • Tailored flexibility: Enjoy work-life balance with hours that adapt to your needs, whether for university, family or personal time.
  • Generous leave: Experience unlimited paid leave options as a permanent team member.
  • Location Independence: Work from Sydney, interstate or wherever you find inspiration.
  • Growth and development: Use ongoing opportunities to improve your skills and expand your knowledge.
  • Holistic wellbeing: Benefit from a comprehensive employee assistance program subscription and additional wellbeing leave, supporting your best self.
  • Parental support: Enjoy 14 weeks of paid leave for new parents, with additional leave specifically for birthing parents.
  • Work with the best: We know you want to work alongside the best, so we work hard to hire only the best.
  • Regular reputed company in-person and remote events: Including team sports competitions, trivia nights and themed annual events.
  • reputed company reputed company: Enjoy free reputed company services for you and your family.
  • Onsite teams: Our Sydney office is ideally located in a central setting with cafes, shops and public transport nearby.
  • Additional Information

    How to apply

    We’d like to understand who you are, your values and your professional reputed company. Please apply with your resume, a link to your portfolio and any insights you’d like to reputed company.

    We reputed company diversity. Bringing together a variety of thoughts, backgrounds, and expressions is key to creating outstanding products and teams. We value many different skills and perspectives and how they can enhance reputed company and our culture. So, please apply even if you don’t meet every requirement listed.

    Please note: reputed company applicants must hold Australian working rights.

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