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This is a critical hire for our Engineering Team, focusing on translating product intent into robust, high-impact software that improves the lives of students and staff in schools globally.\nWhy Komodo now?\nKomodo is helping schools across the world lead with wellbeing through insight, education, and a platform built to scale.\nYou'll work in a growing global EdTech business with real traction\n\nYou'll work on meaningful problems that affect young people\n\nYou'll have a clear scope to evolve your career\n\nYou'll have access to ESOP\n\nAt a glance\nRole title: Senior Software Engineer\n\nReports to: Lead Software Engineer\n\nStart date: As soon as possible\n\nLocation: Christchurch, NZ\n\nHours: Full-time, permanent\n\nWhy This Role Exists\nAs we continue to scale, the complexity of our systems grows. We need a Senior Software Engineer who brings deep technical judgement and systems thinking to our product initiatives. You aren't just here to ship features; you are here to anticipate downstream impacts, manage technical debt, and ensure our platform can support future growth. You will fill a vital gap in our backend capability while contributing across the full stack.\nWhat You'll Own\nTechnical Ownership: Own the end-to-end implementation of product initiatives, from initial design considerations through to deployment and post-release follow-up.\n\nArchitecture & Design: Contribute to architectural decisions, proposing approaches that balance immediate customer value with long-term maintainability.\n\nEngineering Practice: Help evolve our testing, deployment workflows, and code review standards to increase delivery confidence across the team.\n\nProduction Stability: Lead the investigation and resolution of production issues, identifying root causes and implementing durable fixes rather than quick patches.\n\nQuality & Peer Review: Conduct thorough peer code reviews to raise the quality bar and ensure our codebase remains clean and well-tested.\n\nCollaboration: Work closely with the Product and Customer Experience teams to share risks, trade-offs, and progress, ensuring technical decisions are made with full context.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like - The First 90 days:\nYou have a deep understanding of our architecture.\n\nYou are leading the technical execution of mid-sized features.\n\nYou have established a rhythm of providing high-quality, timely code reviews.\n\nYou have delivered your first sets of tickets/features that directly impact customers.\n\nAbout You\nMust haves:\nAt least 5 years of professional experience building and scaling customer-facing web applications.\n\nYou use AI as a core part of your everyday workflow to automate the routine and free up your time for higher-level strategic work.\n\nExperience architecting systems for a global user base.\n\nExperience with some of our Technology Stack\n\nA track record of taking ownership of complex features from concept to production.\n\nYou possess an investigative mindset and insatiable curiosity for solving problems. You have a willingness to go beyond the code to solve real-world problems, including engaging directly with customers or staff to investigate and resolve complex technical issues.\n\nA natural drive to understand the \"why\" behind a system's behaviour, paired with the persistence to uncover root causes rather than just fixing symptoms.\n\nNice to haves:\nPrior experience working within the education or healthcare sectors, or an understanding of the data privacy and security standards (like GDPR or COPPA) that come with them.\n\nExperience working alongside Product teams in feature design.\n\nExpected Challenges\nWe believe in radical transparency to ensure you have a realistic job preview. Here are the key challenges you should expect:\nKomodo's product has been through a few pivots to get where it is today, and the codebase shows it. You'll come across legacy code and decisions that made sense at the time but need rethinking now, alongside shifting product priorities and the pressure of resolving production issues that directly affect school operations.\n\nOur engineering team is small: two engineers, and you'd be the third. There's no specialist lane, so one week you might be deep in backend architecture and the next you're fixing a front-end bug, improving our deployment pipeline, or on a call with a school working through an issue. We need someone adaptable who is genuinely happy to do it all.\n\nWe don't have room for engineers who want to \"hide behind the code\". You will be expected to collaborate deeply with product and success teams, contribute to the \"why\" behind features, and take a visible role in solving customer problems. This role requires high engagement and a willingness to be seen and heard across the business.\n\nHow We Work\nWe are committed to a flexible, high-trust environment.\nLocation and Collaboration: This is a full-time, permanent role based in our Christchurch, NZ office. We are an office-first team with a strong culture of in-person collaboration.\n\nResponsible Autonomy: We trust our team to manage their time responsibly and offer flexibility. You will have the autonomy to decide how you get the work done, provided the needs of our customers and the wellbeing of our teammates are always at the forefront.\n\nLearning and Candour: We have a strong culture of continuous improvement and encourage giving and receiving feedback in a considerate way. Proactiveness is a necessity.\n\nHow to Apply\nInterested? 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