Senior Software Engineer
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