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Pathify is the leading digital engagement hub for higher education, providing a centralized user experience that unifies all things digital for students, faculty, and staff.
Pathify
Employee count: 51-200

Salary: A$135K – A$165K per year
Australia only

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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.

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About the job
Apply before
Oct 22, 2026
Posted on
Aug 23, 2026
Job type
Full Time
Experience level
Senior

Salary

Salary: A$135K – A$165K per year

Education
Bachelor degree

Experience

5 years minimum

Experience accepted in place of education

Location requirements
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Australia

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Job categories
Software Engineer Fullstack Development Backend Development Frontend Development Senior Software Developer Senior Software Engineer Jobs Senior Engineer Senior Lead Software Developer Senior C# .NET Software Engineer Senior Java Software Engineer Senior Systems Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer C++ Full Stack Engineer

Skills
Python Django Angular TypeScript Django REST Framework PostgreSQL REST APIs Git AI Foundation Models Workflow Agents Gemini Backend Development Frontend Development Software Architecture JavaScript Relational Databases

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About Pathify

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We're obsessed with making great technology while developing incredible long-term relationships with customers. At Pathify, we remain hyper-focused on creating stellar experiences across the entire student lifecycle — from prospect to alumni. We deliver cloud-based, integration-friendly software designed to drive engagement, pushing personalized information, content, and resources to the right people, at the right time, on any device.

Our Campus Experience Platform (CXP) acts as a centralized user experience hub, unifying all things digital for higher education institutions. We believe technology should foster connection, not chaos. That's why our Engagement Hub connects over 140 of higher ed's most popular systems, serving as a single pane of glass that eliminates digital sprawl and maximizes the value of your entire tech stack. Whether it's through our web portal or native mobile app, we ensure students, faculty, and staff have a seamless, personalized journey.

Led by former higher ed executives, entrepreneurs, and technology leaders, our team focuses every day on the values of Impact, Wit, Contrast, Technique, and Care. We're not just building software; we're empowering institutions to survive and thrive in today's perfect storm of challenges by ensuring every member of the community has easy access to the resources they need to succeed.

Tech stack

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JavaScript

Scala

Salesforce

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WordPress

Docker

NGINX

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Employee benefits

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Insurance for pets

Dental insurance

Dental health coverage

401(K)

Retirement savings plan

Life insurance

Life insurance coverage

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About the job
Apply before
Oct 22, 2026
Posted on
Aug 23, 2026
Job type
Full Time
Experience level
Senior

Salary

Salary: A$135K – A$165K per year

Education
Bachelor degree

Experience

5 years minimum

Experience accepted in place of education

Location requirements
Suggest an edit

Australia

Hiring timezones
Show UTC offsets

Australia +/- 0 hours

Job categories
Software Engineer Fullstack Development Backend Development Frontend Development Senior Software Developer Senior Software Engineer Jobs Senior Engineer Senior Lead Software Developer Senior C# .NET Software Engineer Senior Java Software Engineer Senior Systems Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer C++ Full Stack Engineer

Skills
Python Django Angular TypeScript Django REST Framework PostgreSQL REST APIs Git AI Foundation Models Workflow Agents Gemini Backend Development Frontend Development Software Architecture JavaScript Relational Databases

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Remote Senior Software-Engineer Jobs Remote Full Time Software-Engineer Jobs Remote Senior Software-Engineer Jobs in Australia Remote Full Time Jobs in Australia Remote Software-Engineer Jobs in Australia

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Company size

51-200 employees

Founded in

2011

Chief executive officer

Chase Williams

Markets
Higher Education Student Engagement Platforms Campus Management Software Cloud Computing SaaS Digital Experience Platforms Integration Platforms Enterprise Software Edtech Mobile Apps

Employees live in
United States

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