Product Engineer

Wellio; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly culture

Two annual meetups

Job summary

Wellio is seeking an Engineer to join our product team. We are a bootstrapped, customer-funded company focused on solving real problems in education with Rails. You’ll help ship robust features while maintaining quality and craft.

We love continuous discovery and lean teams, aiming to balance speed with thoughtful engineering. You’ll collaborate closely with co-founders, designers, and customer-facing teams across Melbourne and Sydney offices.

Qualifications

• Extensive Ruby on Rails experience.
• Experience building products for schools or education tech is a plus.
• Focus on delivering quality code while shipping quickly.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of major product initiatives.
• Improve development practices through code reviews and documentation.
• Establish patterns to make the monolith easier to work with and scalable.
• Provide a trusted voice in architectural decisions.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Problem solving

Job description

The role

Wellio is hiring an Engineer to add to our Product Team. We’re a (mostly) bootstrapped company that has been funded by real customers. We love to work on actual problems that schools wouldn't be able to solve otherwise. We like to ship fast but also keep and eye on the quality of the code we write.

The work

We are a Ruby on Rails company and we believe that we wouldn't be able to move as fast with any other technologies. We try to stay as close to the Rails way as possible, but we can also branch out if we find a better tool for the job.

We want to keep our stack in check. We try to keep up with updates - we are currently using Ruby 4.0.7 and Rails 8.1.3.1.

We're inspired by product philosophies from 37signals, Linear, and Airbnb, and we implement the Shape Up process to guide our product development. We believe in small, senior teams that embrace constraints, focus on craft, and deliver exceptional outcomes.

Some principles that guide us: continuous discovery, small teams over big ones, embracing constraints, fixed appetites with flexible scopes, knowing our tools and cutting with the grain, treating product as a marketing job, obsessing over craft and sweating the details, and avoiding long‑term plans in favour of betting on what matters right now.

Improving student wellbeing requires solutions that weave technology and content together seamlessly. Most edtech companies split this work - platform teams here, content teams there, design somewhere else. We think that leads to narrow solutions that miss the bigger picture. At Wellio, design and content teams report into product because the best solutions integrate all three disciplines.

The team

We are a small product team consisting of:

• CTO
• Two other senior Product Engineer
• Designer
• Head of Product

You will also work very closely to the co-founders as well as the customer facing teams. Every line of code that we write is to solve customers' problems and we believe that the best way to do that is to stay as close to the customers as possible.

What success looks like

Within your first year, you'll:

• Have deep knowledge of our codebase and business domain
• Lead the implementation of several major product initiatives
• Improve our development practices through code reviews and technical documentation
• Help establish patterns and practices that make our monolith easier to work with
• Be a trusted voice in technical discussions and architectural decisions

About you

Your extensive Ruby on Rails experience is matched by your passion for building products that matter. You thrive on solving challenging technical problems and get energised when you see your solutions making a real difference for customers. You take your work seriously, and keep the customer at the centre of what you do. You value clean code but understand that perfect is sometimes the enemy of good, especially at this stage of the company.

You actively fight against the stereotype of the grumpy engineer. We're looking for engineers who approach challenges with curiosity and creativity rather than immediate roadblocks. When presented with requests or ideas, your first instinct is to explore possibilities: \"How might we make this work?\" or \"What would it take to achieve this?\" You excel at finding pragmatic compromises and alternative approaches that balance technical constraints with business needs. We value engineers who are known for their constructive problem‑solving and ability to turn complex challenges into actionable solutions.

We expect you to be well versed in AI assisted coding. If we want to keep the team small and nimble as we grow, we have to master the ways of making each one of us more efficient.

You are located anywhere in Australia. We do have two offices in Melbourne and Sydney, so if you live around there, you can work from there as well.

About Wellio

40% of young people have suffered from a mental health condition in the last 12 months, so chances are you know someone who has been affected.

Wellio was founded to help schools put wellbeing at the heart of learning. We believe deteriorating youth mental health is one of the most important problems in the world to tackle right now, and we're looking for people to join us on that journey.

Schools are stepping up to tackle this crisis head‑on, putting wellbeing lessons into their timetables and making student mental health a priority. But here's the challenge: teachers trained in maths, English, and history (not wellbeing) often find these lessons uncomfortable to deliver. Meanwhile, schools are trying to hand‑roll their own systems to triage students, spot who's struggling, and deliver tailored interventions. They're prioritising wellbeing but struggling to solve it with staff who are new to these problems and complex systems that each school has to build from scratch.

To solve these problems, we're creating the world's first Wellbeing Management System (WMS): a platform that packages the world's best approaches to student wellbeing and makes them simple to teach, measure, and improve across the full spectrum of care. It shouldn't matter which school you attend - you should get world‑class support. If we're successful, our impact will be seen in national wellbeing data.

Our platform already powers engaging, data‑rich wellbeing programs in 15 countries, 4 continents, and over 400 schools. We've tripled in 12 months, and we're on track to double again in 2026, which is why we need exceptional product talent to help guide what comes next.

What’s unique about working at Wellio?

Small, exceptional team. We believe small is better than big. Staying lean means we can prioritise simplicity and speed, stay out of meetings all day, and build products we're proud of.

Mission‑driven work. We wake up and work on a globally meaningful problem.

Transparency. We share everything internally because high trust breeds great culture, and knowing the business means better decisions.

We don't take ourselves too seriously. We believe doing great work and holding high standards is easier when you don't take things too seriously. Expect laughter and a healthy dose of weird.

Remote-friendly but culture focused. Our product team spans the globe but if you prefer offices, we have bases in London, Sydney, and Melbourne. We invest in flying our team together for two meetups a year.