Senior Software Engineer

Education Perfect is an EdTech platform designed to empower educators and amplify their impact in the classroom. We aim to enable teachers to personalise learning at scale with a range of powerful learning, assessment, and insights tools, helping them and their students reach their full potential.

As an EPeep, you’ll work on projects that have a real impact on students' lives and have the freedom, support and resources you need to develop your skills and grow your career.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Lexicon team - a collaborative group of product, design and engineering specialists shaping the future of Education Perfect’s AI Learning Coach. This role is ideal for a strongly backend focused engineer who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys solving complex technical challenges. You’ll design and build scalable C#/.NET services, develop production-grade LLM integrations and help evolve intelligent, high-performance systems that deliver meaningful value to students and educators. Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll contribute to architecture, experimentation and mentoring as we scale a live, production AI system that's already making a difference for students and educators across the platform.

What you will do

• Design and build production-grade LLM integrations and services in C#/.NET
• Develop secure, scalable, high-performance backend systems
• Manage prompt pipelines, streaming and parallelised execution
• Solve complex challenges related to system integration, stability and performance
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers on new features
• Contribute to architecture, system design and refactoring
• Experiment, prototype and explore new AI capabilities
• Deliver customer value in small, continuous increments
• Mentor and support other engineers within the team

About you

• Strong expertise in C# / .NET
• Experience designing and building APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)
• Hands-on experience shipping production LLM features to real users
• Ability to design secure, scalable and maintainable services
• Solid understanding of system design, performance and reliability
• Experience operating cloud software at scale
• Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka and SQL/Postgres
• Experience working with AI platforms (e.g. AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex AI or similar)
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated ownership, growth mindset and comfort with ambiguity
• Experience collaborating with distributed/global teams

Equitable opportunities, growth, and development lie at the heart of how we work at EP. We understand that not all applicants may possess all the following attributes so if you think you have what it takes, but are not sure you check every box, we would love to still hear from you!

What we offer

At Education Perfect, we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive - professionally and personally. When you join EP, you’ll have access to a thoughtfully designed range of benefits that support wellbeing, flexibility and long-term growth:

• Employee Equity Bonus Plan – Share in EP’s success through equity bonuses that foster ownership and collective growth
• Christmas Shutdown Leave – Enjoy a full company shutdown over Christmas, with additional paid leave to bridge non-public holidays
• Volunteer Day – One paid day per year to give back to a cause or community you care about
• Purchase Extra Leave – Option to buy an extra week of annual leave, with payments spread across the year
• Work From Anywhere – Work up to 90 days per year from another state or country
• Wellness Bonus – Pre-tax $750 NZD end-of-year bonus to support your health and wellbeing
• Health Insurance – Fully funded Southern Cross Wellbeing 1 plan ($500 excess), with optional add-ons and family cover
• Home Set-Up Support – Assistance for eligible remote and hybrid employees to create a productive workspace
• Communication Allowance – $50 NZD/month toward phone and internet costs (remote/hybrid employees)
• Parental Leave Support – Generous paid leave and top-ups for primary and secondary caregivers, plus New Parents Leave
• Employee Assistance Program – 24/7 confidential wellbeing, safety, and medical support via Sonder 
• Learning & Development – Access to workshops, development conversations and performance support
• Tenure Recognition – Bonus leave and rewards celebrating long-term milestones
• Referral Bonus – $2,000 NZD pre-tax bonus for successful employee referrals
• Workride Scheme – Save on bikes, e-bikes or scooters through pre-tax salary sacrifice
• EP Support Groups & Committees – Including Mana Wahine, DEI, Environmental Impact and Wellness

You’ll also be part of a growing global company with Diversity Works accreditation, Carbon Net Zero BCorp status, Digital Promise certification and a deep commitment to our mission, our people and the communities we serve.