Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

About us:

At Cadmus, we believe every student should have equal opportunity to achieve academic excellence, that's why we're changing how the world learns! Get to know us by visiting cadmus.io or following our social channels.

Cadmus is a global EdTech company purposefully built for the higher education sector to break down global learning barriers by providing educators and diverse student cohorts with access to high-quality learning and assessment through one powerful platform. Built on rich, student-centric values, Cadmus empowers students to achieve their highest potential and graduate with the critical skills and knowledge to profoundly impact our workforces, communities, and evolving world.

Requirements

A senior full-stack engineer with 5+ years of overall industry experience, who demonstrates the following:

• End-to-End Feature Ownership: A history of leading feature development from the initial problem definition to final deployment. You should have made key architectural and product decisions, not just implemented pre-defined tasks.
• Front-end expertise: You have significant previous experience with React.js, TypeScript, and other web tools necessary for Front-End development. You can utilise GraphQL APIs and any styling system, to visualise a functional and reactive data flow and optimise it
• Back-end expertise: You are proficient in multiple backend languages and frameworks and understand the differences and the strengths. Functional programming expertise, and ideally, real-world programming experience with a web back-end, is preferred. You can reason with data structures, strong type systems, APIs, and concurrency paradigms. While we primarily use Elixir, polyglots are more than welcome!
• Startup Experience: A proven track record of thriving in a fast-paced startup environment. You should be comfortable with ambiguity and demonstrate an ability to deliver practical solutions under tight deadlines
• Love Programming: You're driven by a deep curiosity for how things work, not just what they do. You likely have personal projects, a history of open-source contributions, or can talk at length about a recent technology you've been experimenting with just for fun. Essentially, you love to build, tinker, and learn, both in and out of the office.

You will:

This isn't a role where you'll be told what to do. You are the decision-maker, empowered to figure things out and own your work from start to finish.

• You'll build and own features end-to-end. You will break down complex features, design the architecture, build the frontend and backend, and deploy your work independently
• You'll make critical technical and business decisions. You'll be responsible for analysing your choices based on performance, scalability, UX, and business value and articulating the trade-offs to the team
• You'll design and implement core systems. You'll build robust GraphQL APIs and implement critical subsystems
• You'll shape our codebase and culture. You'll navigate our existing codebase with skill and contribute to a culture of high ownership, deep technical curiosity, and practical problem-solving

What success looks like:

In your first 30 days, your primary focus will be to deeply understand the business, the product, and the people behind it. Building strong relationships with your teammates and immersing yourself in our culture of collaboration will be essential. You'll be expected to quickly ramp up and begin making meaningful contributions to our engineering roadmap, while navigating a fast-paced environment where project timelines can be tight. Clear communication, curiosity, and a bias for action will set you up for success from day one.

After 3 months, you'll be operating with a high level of independence and ownership, trusted to lead initiatives and deliver features that directly impact our roadmap and user experience. Your contributions will go beyond code; you'll bring forward new ideas and perspectives, even in non-technical areas, helping us evolve how we think, collaborate, and build. Success will also be defined by your ability to work effectively amidst ambiguity, identifying gaps, improving processes, and contributing to internal documentation. Resilience and durability under pressure are key; we're looking for someone who can remain focused and effective even when the heat is on. You'll be seen as a key pillar in the team—someone who uplifts others, drives innovation, and helps shape the direction of our product and engineering culture.

The team:

_Note: We strongly encourage as much overlap as possible with the working hours of the HQ team in Melbourne, so as to maximize learning and expedite processes.

_Benefits

• A remote-friendly, flexible working culture; where you can work from any global location
• A diverse and inclusive workplace where there are no barriers to anyone succeeding
• A surrounding team of mission-driven individuals who genuinely love what they do
• Mentoring and succession planning for your career

Hiring Process

Our interview process is usually a team interview, a programming task, a live white-boarding exercise, and a conversation with our founder(s).

Inclusivity at Cadmus

At Cadmus, we hire great people from various backgrounds because it strengthens our company. We never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, or disability status. If you share our values and enthusiasm for education, you will find a home at Cadmus.

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