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Our mission is to help unlock the world’s potential by optimising the way we teach and learn. With a unique blend of technology and creativity, we bring learning to life, making complex concepts simple and accessible to students, educators, and parents alike.
We’re a team driven by our core values: a deep-rooted passion for learning, a relentless pursuit of quality at speed, humility in our growth, a commitment to pushing boundaries, empowering others fearlessly and championing the needs of our customers. Our culture is built on these values, ensuring we stay agile, innovative and empathetic to the evolving needs of the education community.
At Atomi, you’ll be encouraged to think creatively, work collaboratively and contribute to a mission where every piece of work is a step towards realising our collective potential in classrooms and beyond.
The opportunity
We’re looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Platform Engineer that’s ready to take on the challenges of a growing platform and product. In this role, you’ll be joining our small Platform squad whose goal is to accelerate delivery of feature squads.
We are searching for someone who is able to take on the challenge of a maturing platform that is also innovating heavily in AI. Our company has grown significantly from its early lean startup stages, and the Platform squad’s current focus is on addressing significant technical debt in order to achieve company goals. The roadmap is a mixture of migration projects from older technologies such as Javascript, PHP and Flow, to a more modern and cohesive architecture using TypeScript with NextJS and NestJS, as well as Python in the AI space.
What you'll do
- You'll work as an integral member of the Platform squad to achieve their roadmap goals
- You'll closely collaborate with the squad lead in providing the solution design for Platform projects
- You'll take responsibility for implementation work as part of Platform development projects and BAU work
- You'll collaborative with our feature squads, helping them to achieve their team goals and platform needs
- You'll have the opportunity to mentor other squad members and up-skill them in backend expertise
- You are an advocate for the Platform mindset and quality engineering within your squad and across the broader organisation
- You'll help to drive scalability, performance security across the platform, ensuring best practices are observed
- You'll utilise your expertise and experience with Platform concerns such as: system design architecture, infrastructure ops and development automation
What you'll bring to Atomi
- You'll leverage your previous experience working on large scale legacy migration projects
- You’ve worked specifically with production federated GraphQL APIs
- You’ve worked on ML/AI backend services using Python (this is a bonus)
- You’re familiar with the AWS and or GCP ecosystems, as well as Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS
- You'll be enthusiastic working in an evolving scale-up environment
- You are an excellent communicator with all types of stakeholders across the business
- You have a proven ability and interest in mentoring and up-skilling other engineers
- You have a proven ability to work independently as needed and a part of a team
- You work well with ambiguity and haphazard legacy systems
Working at Atomi
- Tailored flexibility: Enjoy work-life balance with hours that adapt to your needs, whether for university, family or personal time.
- Generous leave: Experience unlimited paid leave options as a permanent team member.
- Location Independence: Work from Sydney, interstate or wherever you find inspiration.
- Growth and development: Use ongoing opportunities to improve your skills and expand your knowledge.
- Holistic wellbeing: Benefit from a comprehensive employee assistance program subscription and additional wellbeing leave, supporting your best self.
- Parental support: Enjoy 14 weeks of paid leave for new parents, with additional leave specifically for birthing parents.
- Work with the best: We know you want to work alongside the best, so we work hard to hire only the best.
- Regular social in-person and remote events: Including team sports competitions, trivia nights and themed annual events.
- Atomi access: Enjoy free Atomi services for you and your family.
- Onsite teams: Our Sydney office is ideally located in a central setting with cafes, shops and public transport nearby.
How to apply
We’d like to understand who you are, your values and your professional journey. Please apply with your resume and any insights you’d like to share.
We embrace diversity. Bringing together a variety of thoughts, backgrounds, and expressions is key to creating outstanding products and teams. We value many different skills and perspectives and how they can enhance Atomi and our culture. So, please apply even if you don’t meet every requirement listed.
Please note: All applicants must hold Australian working rights.
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