About Kami
Kami is a thriving organisation filled to the brim with talented, creative, and passionate people! It’s hard not to love what you do when our leading digital classroom platform offers meaningful solutions to over 50 million users worldwide, empowering students and supporting teachers!
You’ll be joining at a pretty magical time. Kami’s user base is growing by the day. With over 170 team members across the world, we couldn’t be prouder of the accomplishments and milestones we’ve achieved to date. Now, this is your chance to join our team and become an integral member of Kami’s growth, while shaping your own future (and having fun doing it)!
The Opportunity
As an engineer for this forward-thinking scaleup, you will not be locked in the backroom implementing specs sheets—you’ll be talking to the customers/teachers who already love their product and figuring out how to make it work even better for them. This position will suit an Engineer with a good product sense who is comfortable working relatively autonomously but who can also collaborate well both internally and externally.
This opportunity is based in our fully renovated Auckland office. We have a hybrid arrangement of Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in office. Tuesdays and Thursdays are work from home.
What You’ll Do
Deliver and maintain high-quality features
- Design, develop, test, and deploy new features that improve user experience and support Kami’s product goals.
- Maintain and enhance existing functionality to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Work closely with product, design, and other engineering team members to translate ideas and user feedback into well-structured technical solutions.
- Build strong relationships across the company to support seamless development workflows.
Contribute to backend and frontend code bases
- Maintain and improve our frontend and backend systems, ensuring stability and security.
- Investigate bugs and implement reliable fixes. Ensure that issues are addressed promptly and solutions are delivered in a way that improves long-term code health.
Support product evolution through user feedback
- Incorporate user insights and feedback to inform the development of new features and enhancements.
- Contribute ideas that support both user satisfaction and business goals.
Proactively support and drive continuous improvement
- Review and refine our engineering processes, tooling, and workflows to increase efficiency and streamline prioritisation across teams.
Mentor and support team members
- Share knowledge and support the professional growth of fellow engineers through mentorship, code reviews, and technical guidance.
What You’ll Bring
- 6+ years of experience in a software engineering role
- Strong proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go)
- Experience working with web technologies and cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with scalable backend systems and API development
- Comfortable with agile workflows and collaborative development
- Experience debugging complex systems and writing clean, maintainable code
Why Kami?
We’re building a high performance, best in class team to help capitalize on our exciting momentum, and continue scaling Kami's magic and making a difference to schools, students, and teachers. With Kami, you’ll have
- A people-first employer that is on an inspiring mission to build the future of education while changing the lives of millions
- High calibre and diverse team ranging from successful startup veterans, to Fortune 500 and big tech professionals
- Continuous learning and development opportunities, including subsidised course fees, certifications, conferences, and free access to Udemy and more
- A strong mission; the satisfaction of knowing you’re not only helping modern-day superheroes, aka teachers but also helping them shape the minds of future generations all across the globe
- Happy customers: Helping thousands of schools worldwide through the digital transformation of education for the 21st century. Just read our reviews.
- Huge potential: Already used by 70M users in 175 countries. One of the most popular and fastest-growing EdTech platforms worldwide.
If you’re looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to impact the lives of millions, apply now!
What We Do
We come to work everyday to help foster a positive learning journey for everyone. Kami was developed in Aotearoa, New Zealand by four university friends who decided to make a difference. Ten years later, we’ve grown into a team of over 100 Kami-leons with a shared goal of supporting classroom heroes and leveling the playing field so that all students, no matter their age, grade, or ability, can love learning. We’re proud to have been named one of Time magazine’s most influential companies in 2022 and included in the Deloitte Fast 50 as the fastest growing company and fastest growing exporter in 2021. Our investors include leading Australian venture capitalist firm Right Click Capital, CapitalPitch, New Zealand-based Flying Kiwi Angels, New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, and notable Silicon Valley investors such as Sam Altman of Y Combinator and Scott Nolan of Founders Fund. Our Team: We believe that having a dedicated, enthusiastic, and non-hierarchical team can achieve remarkable things — we’re well on-track to proving it, too. Our company culture embraces diversity, compassion, transformation, and most importantly, fun! With these values, we're working to add a little magic to education so that teachers and students can achieve so much more together. We thrive in an encouraging environment where people can share ideas, generate solutions, and grow. Join us in building the future of education. Get in touch at [email protected], we’d love to hear from you!
