Staff Software Engineer

About Kami
Kami is a thriving organisation filled to the brim with talented, creative, and passionate people! It’s hard not to love what you do when our leading digital classroom platform offers meaningful solutions to over 50 million users worldwide, empowering students and supporting teachers!

You’ll be joining at a pretty magical time. Kami’s user base is growing by the day. With over 170 team members across the world, we couldn’t be prouder of the accomplishments and milestones we’ve achieved to date. Now, this is your chance to join our team and become an integral member of Kami’s growth, while shaping your own future (and having fun doing it)!

The Opportunity
As an engineer for this forward-thinking scaleup, you will not be locked in the backroom implementing specs sheets—you’ll be talking to the customers/teachers who already love their product and figuring out how to make it work even better for them. This position will suit an Engineer with a good product sense who is comfortable working relatively autonomously but who can also collaborate well both internally and externally.

This opportunity is based in our fully renovated Auckland office. We have a hybrid arrangement of Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in office. Tuesdays and Thursdays are work from home.

What You’ll Do
Provide technical leadership and direction

• Review existing prioritisation processes and provide guidance on improvements, making decisions to guide engineering progress and impact
• Lead discussion and continuous improvement on design and development of complex software architecture, systems, and platforms
• Mentor and coach engineering staff by role modelling best in class engineering standards
• and providing direct feedback that supports high quality, tested, secure and maintainable code
• Act as direct reporting line for junior and intermediate engineers

Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement

• Develop and maintain functionality for the Kami Application
• Build and maintain the Kami code base and code quality including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, AngularJS, VueJS, Java, and Rails
• Be an enabler - empower and support engineering staff to build scalable, reliable, and secure systems

Champion cross-functional collaboration

• Own the partnership with the wider cross-functional team members and drive effective collaboration with product managers, designers, and customers
• Engage in discovery and understand holistically the requirements from all sides
• Be curious, resourceful and adaptable in their partnerships with other teams
• Demonstrate ability to shape strategy and prioritise work across cross-functional staff

Act as a technical subject matter expert to problem solve

• Be able to understand data, commercial information, and technical requirements to shape solutions for ambiguous problems
• Demonstrate a structured, iterative approach to problem solving
• Consider multiple solutions for a problem, have a testing framework, build various implementation approaches, and evaluate success

What You’ll Bring

• 9+ years experience developing web-based applications for users globally
• Deep fluency working with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and experience working with large Single Page Applications (SPAs)
• Strong experience with frontend frameworks/libraries, e.g, React, AngularJS, VueJS
• Experience with backend tools such as Rails, Rust & Typescript
• Strong product sense and ability to work with customers to design bespoke solutions
• Experience with developing high-performance code, profiling with Chrome Developer tools
• You adopt the latest tech fast
• Great communication and engagement skills
• A positive, passionate and collaborative approach
• Technologies we use: we are open to engineers with any full stack experience, but FYR our toolbox is Typescript, React, Ruby, Rails, Cockroach, Kafka, Datadog, and Google Cloud Platform

Why Kami?
We’re building a high performance, best in class team to help capitalize on our exciting momentum, and continue scaling Kami's magic and making a difference to schools, students, and teachers. With Kami, you’ll have

• A people-first employer that is on an inspiring mission to build the future of education while changing the lives of millions
• High calibre and diverse team ranging from successful startup veterans, to Fortune 500 and big tech professionals
• Continuous learning and development opportunities, including subsidised course fees, certifications, conferences, and free access to Udemy and more
• A strong mission; the satisfaction of knowing you’re not only helping modern-day superheroes, aka teachers but also helping them shape the minds of future generations all across the globe
• Happy customers: Helping thousands of schools worldwide through the digital transformation of education for the 21st century. Just read our reviews.

• Huge potential: Already used by 70M users in 175 countries. One of the most popular and fastest-growing EdTech platforms worldwide.

If you’re looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to impact the lives of millions, apply now!