Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

About this role

Mathspace is on a mission to change maths education, by helping students and teachers with smarter, interactive learning software.

We’re an agile run, product-orientated company that focuses on delivering value through continual customer feedback, enabling students and teachers to have a delightful experience through learning mathematics.

As an engineer working on a cross-functional product team, you will:

- Enrich the Mathspace web and mobile apps that help teach hundreds of thousands of students every month across the world
- Work closely with product owners and designers in their product discovery efforts
- Collaborate with fellow engineers to deliver meaningful value to students and teachers
- Tackle difficult problems, solve them creatively, and learn continuously
- Play an active role, taking the initiative to get things done
Learn, develop and extend our tech stack

Requirements

- Strong software engineering ability
- Effective communication skills
- Knowledge of Python, GraphQL and Django frameworks
- Enthusiastic about quality, design and user experience
- Dedicated to learning and sharing new ideas
- Industry experience in web products

Benefits

• Competitive salary and a comfortable office environment near Sydney Central station.
• We provide the necessary equipment: MacBook Pro & monitors
• We have a highly flexible work-from-home policy
• We offer a yearly stipend for training & education expenses
• We partner with pledge1percent.org to donate 1% of time, product and profit to help nonprofits in our community
• - We will offer you 2.5 paid days per year to volunteer with the charity of your choice