Own the design and delivery of complex software initiatives across frontend and backend systems. Build and maintain applications with Python/Django, Angular, and TypeScript; design APIs; manage testing, deployment, debugging, and operations; improve architecture and code quality; collaborate with Product and Design; conduct code reviews; mentor engineers; and apply AI technologies such as foundation models and agent workflows.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join Pathify’s Australian engineering team.
You’ll work across our front end and back end stack, primarily using Python/Django, Angular and TypeScript, as well as emerging AI capabilities including agent workflows built on foundation models such as Gemini.
This is a senior individual contributor role. You’ll be expected to take ownership of complex and sometimes ambiguous engineering problems, determine the right technical approach, and deliver high-quality solutions from design through to production.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the design and delivery of significant features and technical initiatives across your team’s domain
- Translate product requirements and ambiguous problems into pragmatic, scalable technical solutions
- Make sound architectural and implementation decisions, balancing quality, speed, maintainability and customer impact
- Build and maintain robust applications using Python/Django, Angular and TypeScript
- Work closely with Product, Design and other engineers to shape technical specifications and delivery plans
- Take responsibility for code quality, testing, debugging, deployment and ongoing operation of the software you build
- Improve existing systems and identify opportunities to simplify, modernise or strengthen our codebase
- Provide thoughtful code reviews and technical guidance to other engineers
- Mentor and support less experienced engineers and contribute to raising engineering standards across the team
- Explore and apply new technologies, including foundation models and agent-based workflows, where they can meaningfully improve our products
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated capability
- Strong experience building modern web applications across both backend and frontend
- Proficiency in Python and Django — or deep expertise in another Python web framework with the ability to become productive in Django quickly
- Strong JavaScript and TypeScript skills
- Expertise with a modern frontend framework; Angular experience is strongly preferred
- Experience working with foundation models or AI-enabled applications; Gemini experience is an advantage
- Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs; Django REST Framework experience is preferred
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
- Solid understanding of software design principles, data structures and common architectural patterns
- Strong Git and modern software-development workflow experience
- The ability to independently work through complex problems and make good technical decisions without needing detailed direction
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly
- A track record of helping other engineers improve through mentoring, code review or technical leadership
- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Unrestricted working rights in Australia
Benefits
- Competitive salary of AU$135,000–$165,000 base + super
- Work remotely from anywhere in Australia
- A collaborative engineering culture with meaningful technical autonomy
- The opportunity to solve complex problems across a broad and modern technology stack
- Exposure to rapidly evolving technologies including AI, foundation models and agent workflows
- Clear engineering career levels, with opportunities to progress into technical leadership, Staff and Principal engineering roles
Pathify sells the best Campus Experience Platform in the world. This is a system which provides a perfectly equivalent mobile and browser experience for students, staff and administrators in higher education, fronted by a conversational interface. We prize security and accessibility and consolidate information and functionality from over one hundred backend systems to our single user experience.
About
It’s time to change the way we think about the higher ed digital ecosystem. The truth is, there’s a massive void at the center of the higher ed digital ecosystem because there’s no centralized user experience unifying everything. Pathify is an innovative engagement hub that delivers a dynamic, personalized, and centralized experience to every user on any device. No more searching aimlessly for the right information. Pathify actively surfaces the personalized info and tools each user needs, from any school system. Create a clear path to student success and enrich your school identity with a meaningful and engaging digital campus experience — for the entire student lifecycle. Better technology and a better experience = happier students.
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