Staff Software Engineer

Kami Limited; New Zealand; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Our Auckland office operates in a hybrid model: in the office Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with Tuesdays and Thursdays work-from-home. You’ll work across frontend and backend stacks using TypeScript, React, Ruby, Rails and more to deliver high-quality software.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience building web-based applications for global users.
• Strong frontend framework experience: React, AngularJS, VueJS.
• Proficient with backend tools such as Rails, Rust and TypeScript.
• Excellent product sense and ability to design bespoke solutions with customers.
• Proven ability to write high-performance, testable code and collaborate with teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction.
• Review prioritisation processes and guide engineering progress and impact.
• Lead design and development of complex software architecture, systems and platforms.
• Mentor and coach engineering staff with best-in-class standards.
• Own the Kami application functionality and drive scalable, secure systems.
• Champion cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers and customers.
• Engage in discovery and holistically understand requirements from all sides.
• Shape strategy and prioritise work across cross-functional teams.

Skills

Web development

Frontend frameworks

Backend development

Full stack

Customer interaction

High performance code

Tools

Rails

Rust

TypeScript

React

Ruby

CockroachDB

Kafka

Datadog

GCP

Job description

Jora New Zealand will close on 9th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

About KamiKami 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 OpportunityAs 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 DoProvide 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

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 Bring9+ years experience developing web-based applications for users globally

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

people-firstemployer that is on an inspiring mission to build the future of education while changing the lives of millions

High calibre and diverse teamranging 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

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 by70M users in 175 countries. One of the most popular and fastest-growing EdTech platforms worldwide.