Software Engineer

Description

Join Contour Education as a Software Engineer (Full-Time, Primarily Remote – Melbourne based) and help shape the future of education for thousands of students across Australia. You’ll build and ship real features across our LMS and CMS platforms, working with technologies like React, Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, and PayloadCMS. Our engineering team thrives on ownership, async-first collaboration, and solving meaningful problems — no fluff, no bureaucracy. We’re a fast-growing, mission-driven startup, offering the rare balance of rapid growth, stability, and product impact. If you're passionate about building high-quality, student-focused tools in a high-trust, high-impact environment — we’d love to meet you.

Who Are We

We empower students and their studies by providing an ecosystem of highly effective tutoring, resources and support. We run weekly small-group tutoring sessions at our in-person campuses, presented by young and experienced tutors that teach in a simple, intuitive and engaging way. We also supplement these sessions with weekly workshops, complimentary 1-on-1 support and a learning portal with a comprehensive suite of resources and practice material to help students master their subjects.

Over 8,000 students and 250+ team members have joined Contour Education since our founding in the beginning of 2020. Our growth is a testament to our dedication in providing ALL our students and parents with a premium learning experience (from 24/7 personal support to on-demand resources) and our commitment to helping them achieve their personal goals, and achieve success in their school assessments and exams. We've been listed three years in a row as one of the Fastest Growing Startups by the Australian Financial Review, and we're continuing to multiply year over year!

It's our vision to reshape education, one student at a time.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship features across our LMS and CMS products, real user-facing features, not just internal tools.
• Work across the stack to build deep expertise in one area and broad fluency across the rest.
• Build shared UI libraries, Supabase edge functions, microservices, and connector logic with PayloadCMS and Cloudflare.
• Help us stitch together services across the stack. E.g. wiring our CRM into our education platform.
• Contribute to a clean repos using InnerSource principles (clear docs, async-first collaboration, modular design)
• Work in an environment where we’re building clear docs, async-first collaboration, modular design.
• Pair with our Lead Engineer for daily execution, fast reviews, and high-trust autonomy.
• Leave things better than you found them one pull request at a time.
  
  

Skill Requirements

Full-Stack Web Development (React, Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL)

Experience with Supabase, PayloadCMS or similar headless CMS platforms

Building and integrating LMS, CMS, CRM, and backend services

Familiarity with CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, Vercel, etc.)

Async-First Collaboration & Clean Documentation Practices

Developing user-facing features (not just internal tools)

Exposure to infrastructure, edge functions, and microservices

Strong product thinking and ownership mindset

Academic Requirements

• 1.5+ years of experience building and shipping web apps (Freelance, side projects, or professional roles all count)
• Comfortable working across domains (frontend, backend, infrastructure)
• Experience integrating tools and services across the stack
• Strong written communication skills for PRs, docs, and async work
  
  

NOTE: These are not hard-fast academic requirements; however, they are favourable to your application.

Personal Requirements

• Excited to build something meaningful with a small, mission-driven team
• Hungry for ownership and impact — not just structure and process
• Passionate about solving real problems that help students learn
• Thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Wants to learn fast, grow fast, and leave things better than they found them
• Melbourne-based (Glen Waverley) with flexibility to be onsite occasionally
  
  

Benefits

• Hybrid-friendly: work from anywhere, with monthly Melbourne-based outings (Glen Waverley).
• Async-first and low-meeting: we care about output, not face time.
• Real features, real systems: you’ll work across our entire platform LMS, CMS, CRM, and infrastructure; not just low-impact tickets or throwaway tools.
• Greenfield projects: we’re still building from the ground up (no legacy code to deal with).
• Fast-paced growth: start by rotating across domains (frontend, API, infrastructure, CMS), then grow into the lane that fits you best.
• Culture of ownership: we don’t micromanage. You’re trusted to own your work and improve the codebase one PR at a time.
• Engineering influence: shape how we build and scale from day one — not five promotions later.
• Speedy decision-making: we don’t sit on ideas for months — we build, test, learn, and ship. It’s startup energy, with structure.