Crimson Academies is a global education organisation delivering high-quality, live, real-time learning to ambitious students around the world. With over 1,000 students joining us from 65 countries, our vision is to unlock our students' limitless potential, together, for extraordinary futures.
The RoleOur engineering team builds the systems that make a global virtual education organisation actually work: the student and parent app and backend, internal sales and marketing tools, school operations infrastructure, and our public-facing digital platforms.
Our engineers sit close to the product, close to the people using it, and close to the impact. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who's genuinely excited by the difference good software can make to a child's education and who's ready to help us raise the bar on what we ship and how we ship it.
You'll work at a senior level across our backend and infrastructure, contribute to architectural decisions, and help shape the technical direction and engineering culture of the team.
What You'll DoDesign and build Crimson Academies' products across the cloud, backend, infrastructure, and frontend where needed
Take ownership of hard technical problems end to end, from framing through to shipping, monitoring, and iterating
Test-drive your development so that once your work is done, it doesn't go backwards
Contribute to architectural decisions and help shape Crimson Academies' technical direction
Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders: give honest estimates, communicate clearly, and ship when you said you would
Follow and improve our CI/CD, testing, and deployment practices so the team ships faster and more safely
Monitor product health and respond when something needs attention
Mentor your colleagues, lift quality across the team, and model the standards we hold each other to
Essential
5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong full-stack instincts with deep backend and infrastructure experience at a senior level
Fluency, or close to it, in our stack: HTML5/CSS, React, TypeScript, Node, Postgres, Docker, AWS, Terraform
A track record of shipping software you and your team are proud of in a strong CI/CD environment
Clear, honest communication and a team-first instinct — you back your teammates and deliver what you've committed to
Genuine interest in growing into technical leadership over time
Personal commitment to Crimson Academies' standards: unlocking potential together, rethinking and rebuilding, and raising the bar to compound impact
Highly Regarded
Experience building education or other consumer-facing products with a global user base
Experience mentoring or guiding more junior engineers
Comfort running production systems across multiple regions and time zones
Every family that chooses Crimson Academies is trusting us with something irreplaceable. Engineering owns the platforms that make our global education experience possible: the code you ship reaches students and families around the world, every day.
If you want senior-level work with real impact, on a team that holds itself to a high bar, we'd love to hear from you.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong full-stack instincts with deep backend and infrastructure experience at a senior level
- Fluency or near-fluency in HTML5, CSS, React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, and Terraform
- Track record of shipping software in a strong CI/CD environment
- Clear, honest communication and a team-first approach
- Genuine interest in developing technical leadership skills
- Commitment to CGA’s stated engineering and organizational standards
- Experience building education or other consumer-facing products with a global user base
- Experience mentoring or guiding junior engineers
- Experience operating production systems across multiple regions and time zones
What We Do
Crimson Academies is a mission-driven educational group focused on reinventing world-class education. They employ innovative, multi-mode learning approaches to unlock students' limitless potential. The organization operates several schools, including the accredited Crimson Global Academy, which provides flexible, high-quality private education from primary through high school for ambitious students worldwide, preparing them for admission to the world's top universities.
