Job description
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!
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.
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.
Who we are looking for
A senior full-stack engineer with 6+ 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 and optimise a functional and reactive data flow.
- 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 in Elixir or Erlang for a web back-end, is preferred. You can reason with data structures, strong type systems, APIs, and concurrency paradigms.
- Deep Database Skills: Advanced proficiency with a relational database like PostgreSQL. This includes experience with schema design, performance tuning, and the ability to write complex, efficient queries directly in SQL without relying on an ORM.
- 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.
The team
We’re a globally distributed engineering team led by an experienced Engineering Lead and Principal Engineer, supported by a strong mix of senior and junior developers. The team includes five senior engineers and three junior developers, collaborating across multiple time zones to build and maintain high-quality, scalable products. With team members based in Melbourne, Tokyo, Turkey, Thailand, and India, we embrace a remote-first culture that values clear communication, ownership, and continuous improvement. Despite the distance, we work closely together with a shared focus on delivering impactful solutions and continuously evolving our engineering practices.
The benefits
- A flexible working culture where you have the option to work from Melbourne HQ or remotely if located outside of Melbourne
- 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
At Cadmus, we hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our company stronger. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, or disability status. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for education, you will find a home at Cadmus.
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