Senior Full Stack Developer

4 months ago


Hawthorn, Australia Compass Education Full time

Come shape the future of education with us.

We love working with schools and strive to deliver new innovations, functions, and process improvements as new technology becomes available. Our services are specifically designed to improve not only the school process but also community culture and student learning outcomes.

Griddle is a catalyst in education, enabling schools to offer a more personalised, engaging, and effective learning journey for every student. At Griddle, we want to revolutionise the educational experience by providing advanced timetabling solutions for our schools. 

Our school management ecosystem is now used in more than 3,000 schools across Australia and beyond and we’re joined by over 200 members of the Compass team, delivering smart school management solutions around the world.

About the Role & Team

We’re looking for a passionate individual to join our Griddle (Timetabling) team as a Senior Software Engineer. Reporting to the Griddle Engineering Manager, this role will be working on our new timetabling product, Griddle, where you'll focus on features including: Course Selection, Class List Management, Timetable Generation and much more.

You’ll build and deploy new functionalities, support existing features, improve site scalability, infrastructure and testing, all while working in a highly collaborative and agile environment.

What you'll do:

  • Design, develop and maintain secure, scalable software that’s used by thousands of students, parents and teachers throughout the world.
  • Inspire quality and best practices by championing software craftsmanship, clean code and pair programming.
  • Build great relationships with your team, be generous with your thoughts and feedback (and be open to receiving it).
  • Grow, learn, lead and thrive in a team of humans who are committed to supporting you and helping you succeed.
  • Mentor your fellow colleagues and drive the architectural strategy by employing industry best practices and following Griddle software engineering guidelines.
  • Communicate with our customers to understand their needs, and collaborate with Product Owners and Designers to shape products to solve their problems.
  • Contribute to our diverse and inclusive culture and take pride in doing work that makes a real difference for school communities.

Requirements

What you'll bring:

  • A keen interest in developing a high-quality product while meeting company objectives with other talented developers.
  • A passion for software development and an interest in actively keeping up to date with new tech.
  • Extensive experience troubleshooting complex software systems and can identify when a problem is worth solving for the customer and the business.
  • A passion for mentoring junior colleagues and an interest in helping them grow as engineers.
  • Pride and ownership over the software you build.
  • Experience with modern product and engineering principles and practices.
  • Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
  • Ability to work independently and a team environment.

Tech Stack

  • Proven experience (4+ years) in object-oriented programming languages (Java).
  • Proven experience (4+ years) in frontend javascript libraries and frameworks (React.js, Node.js and Typescript).
  • Experience working with SQL/NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and is comfortable designing and implementing database solutions.
  • Experience in testing practices eg. TDD or automation.
  • Bonus points for experience with Spring Framework, RabbitMQ or AWS.

Benefits

What’s in it for you?

  • We come together with our unique strengths to work towards a common purpose - shaping the future of education. When you join our team, you will collaborate with individuals who are passionate, driven, and open to embracing change in a fast-paced environment.
  • A flexible working culture.
  • Learning & Development opportunities - we want you to grow and get the most out of your role
  • Parental Leave Program for both primary and secondary carers.
  • 24/7 access to our Employment Assistance Program (EAP) through the means of face-to-face, livechat and phone support.

It is a really exciting time to join Compass. We are growing and need people who want to grow with us. 

We value individuals who are self-motivated, adaptable, and eager to contribute to the success of our company. Compass is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Prior To Commencing Employment, You Require:

  • A valid Employee Working With Children Check & National Police Check.
  • Verification of unrestricted work rights in Australia, e.g. citizenship, passport, or birth certificate.


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