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 experience.

Originally posted on Himalayas