Expression of Interest: Engineer (Senior & Staff Level)
Stile Education
- Melbourne, VIC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Transform student results into insights about their literacy, numeracy, critical skills, and knowledge so that teachers can intervene faster and more effectively
- Build
- Track what lab equipment schools have, and what they need for their upcoming lessons so that we can send them exactly what they need before they need it
- Present profound insights about student outcomes and high impact teaching strategies to senior government and school leaders too help inform the future of education policy
- A highly-motivated and talented team with experienced engineers, and passionate new starters
- A genuine commitment to the professional development of each engineer through training, coaching, mentorship opportunities, regular feedback and increasing responsibility
- Quality over quantity: we're pragmatists, but we already have an established business that's here for the long term, so maintenance matters more than up-front build time. We'd rather build it right than live with something broken.
- A near-continuous release cadence, involvement of engineers in the design process, and a willingness to take calculated risks
- A large base of real customers, which is growing rapidly as we expand overseas. When you ship a feature 100,000 students will see it within the next day
- Enormous respect for our employees’ work-life balance reflected in our parental leave policy, individual flexibility and sustainable project pace
- A mission that drives our company, and a strong sense of ethics in everything we do
- A modern tech stack. AWS. Terraform. Rust for tooling. CI on Buildkite. An API written in Ruby and Sorbet (not Rails), with a frontend in React and Typescript, glued together with Protobuf interfaces
- Great documentation
- A culture of asking ‘how should this work?’ rather than ‘what's easiest?’
- Extremely thorough test coverage, extensive use of live configuration and feature switching, and a rigorous CI and merge queue process that delivers provably working code rapidly
- High standards: we love solutions that Just Work, and are prepared to spend the effort to build them
- Our comprehensive suite of observability tools let's you see how your changes are performing, and gives you the detail you need to spot trends, anomalies, and patterns easily
- You’ll be given the resources and guidance you need to grow your career. We’ll provide you with transparency around expectations, promotion and pay, and opportunities to lead. You’ll attend conferences, and internal and external professional development events. Your manager will be an experienced engineer, dedicated tohelping you succeed.
- Stile is owned and led by engineers. Our CEO, CTO, and founder/majority-owner/chair — Alan Finkel — are all engineers, and understand what it takes to build something great. Great engineering gets noticed, and rewarded
- You're a critical thinker who sees the system as a whole, and finds ways to cut to the core of the issue.
- You love creating fun, educational experiences that help people think differently
- You think about systems, not just details - you consider how data flows, how to handle API errors, and how to make the next iteration easier to develop than the previous. Furthermore, you consider the ways that other developers might interact with your code and anticipate gotchas. After shipping a product, you think about how to monitor its performance and improve it further based on feedback
- You know that sometimes "more tech" isn't the answer. You love thinking about people, processes, and systems for continuous improvement, and use a balance of technology and people skills to have a huge impact
- You naturally put yourself in others shoes and solve problems with their perspective at the top of your mind
- You seek to understand your teammates rather than win today's argument. You win hearts and minds with carefully considered opinions, and know that success comes from having a whole team working together well. You raise up your peers' voices and enjoy nothing more than seeing your teammates succeed
- You have a strong desire to improve things around you rather than just getting the job done. That said, you know that value exists only once it's shipped and are pragmatic about delivering results
- There will never be enough time to do everything. You think about the value of competing projects and priorities, and enjoy finding the balance between things that are urgent today, and things that will set us up for success in the longer term
- You're confident working independently with the tools you know, but appreciate opportunities to learn, know when to reach out for help, and love to help others
- It doesn't matter if you're missing experience with our tech stack as long as you can show a track record of picking things up quickly
- Colleagues worth working with.
- A cover letter addressed to Daniel Rodgers-Pryor (no more than a page) explaining why you would smash an engineering role at Stile out of the park. Include a paragraph on which