Senior Software Engineer

Crimson Academies; Wellington; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Crimson Academies is a global education organisation delivering live, real-time learning to ambitious students worldwide. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to shape technical direction, work across backend and infrastructure, and collaborate with product teams to raise the bar on what we ship.

You will design and build across cloud, backend, and infrastructure, own hard technical problems end to end, and ensure robust CI/CD, testing, and deployment practices while mentoring teammates and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack instincts with deep backend and infrastructure experience at a senior level.
• Fluency, or close to it, in our stack: HTML5/CSS, React, TypeScript, Node, Postgres, Docker, AWS, Terraform.
• A track record of shipping software you and your team are proud of in a strong CI/CD environment.
• Clear, honest communication and a team-first instinct - you back your teammates and deliver what you've committed to.
• Genuine interest in growing into technical leadership over time.
• Personal commitment to Crimson Academies' standards: unlocking potential together, rethinking and rebuilding, and raising the bar to compound impact.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Crimson Academies' products across the cloud, backend, infrastructure, and frontend where needed.
• Take ownership of hard technical problems end to end, from framing through to shipping, monitoring, and iterating.
• Test-drive your development so that once your work is done, it doesn't go backwards.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help shape Crimson Academies' technical direction.
• Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders: give honest estimates, communicate clearly, and ship when you said you would.
• Follow and improve our CI/CD, testing, and deployment practices so the team ships faster and more safely.
• Monitor product health and respond when something needs attention.
• Mentor your colleagues, lift quality across the team, and model the standards we hold each other to.

Skills

Full-stack

Backend

CI/CD

React

TypeScript

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Docker

AWS

Terraform

Communication

Tools

Docker

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Crimson Academies is a global education organisation delivering high-quality, live, real-time learning to ambitious students around the world. With over 1,000 students joining us from 65 countries, our vision is to unlock our students' limitless potential, together, for extraordinary futures.

The Role

Our engineering team builds the systems that make a global virtual education organisation actually work: the student and parent app and backend, internal sales and marketing tools, school operations infrastructure, and our public-facing digital platforms.

Our engineers sit close to the product, close to the people using it, and close to the impact. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who's genuinely excited by the difference good software can make to a child's education and who's ready to help us raise the bar on what we ship and how we ship it.

You’ll work at a senior level across our backend and infrastructure, contribute to architectural decisions, and help shape the technical direction and engineering culture of the team.

What You'll Do

• Design and build Crimson Academies' products across the cloud, backend, infrastructure, and frontend where needed

• Take ownership of hard technical problems end to end, from framing through to shipping, monitoring, and iterating

• Test-drive your development so that once your work is done, it doesn't go backwards

• Contribute to architectural decisions and help shape Crimson Academies' technical direction

• Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders: give honest estimates, communicate clearly, and ship when you said you would

• Follow and improve our CI/CD, testing, and deployment practices so the team ships faster and more safely

• Monitor product health and respond when something needs attention

• Mentor your colleagues, lift quality across the team, and model the standards we hold each other to

What We're Looking For

Essential

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Strong full-stack instincts with deep backend and infrastructure experience at a senior level

• Fluency, or close to it, in our stack: HTML5/CSS, React, TypeScript, Node, Postgres, Docker, AWS, Terraform

• A track record of shipping software you and your team are proud of in a strong CI/CD environment

• Clear, honest communication and a team-first instinct - you back your teammates and deliver what you've committed to

• Genuine interest in growing into technical leadership over time

• Personal commitment to Crimson Academies' standards: unlocking potential together, rethinking and rebuilding, and raising the bar to compound impact

Highly Regarded

• Experience building education or other consumer-facing products with a global user base

• Experience mentoring or guiding more junior engineers

• Comfort running production systems across multiple regions and time zones

Why Crimson Academies

Every family that chooses Crimson Academies is trusting us with something irreplaceable. Engineering owns the platforms that make our global education experience possible: the code you ship reaches students and families around the world, every day.

If you want senior-level work with real impact, on a team that holds itself to a high bar, we'd love to hear from you.