Education Perfect is an EdTech platform designed to empower educators and amplify their impact in the classroom. We aim to enable teachers to personalise learning at scale with a range of powerful learning, assessment, and insights tools, helping them and their students reach their full potential.

As an EPeep, you’ll work on projects that have a real impact on students' lives and have the freedom, support and resources you need to develop your skills and grow your career.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Lexicon team - a collaborative group of product, design and engineering specialists shaping the future of Education Perfect’s AI Learning Coach.

This role is ideal for a strongly backend focused engineer who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys solving complex technical challenges. You’ll design and build scalable C#/.NET services, develop production-grade LLM integrations and help evolve intelligent, high-performance systems that deliver meaningful value to students and educators.

Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll contribute to architecture, experimentation and mentoring as we scale a live, production AI system that's already making a difference for students and educators across the platform.

What you will do

• Design and build production-grade LLM integrations and services in C#/.NET
• Develop secure, scalable, high-performance backend systems
• Manage prompt pipelines, streaming and parallelised execution
• Solve complex challenges related to system integration, stability and performance
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers on new features
• Contribute to architecture, system design and refactoring
• Experiment, prototype and explore new AI capabilities
• Deliver customer value in small, continuous increments
• Mentor and support other engineers within the team

About you

• Strong expertise in C# / .NET
• Experience designing and building APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)
• Hands-on experience shipping production LLM features to real users
• Ability to design secure, scalable and maintainable services
• Solid understanding of system design, performance and reliability
• Experience operating cloud software at scale
• Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka and SQL/Postgres
• Experience working with AI platforms (e.g. AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex AI or similar)
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated ownership, growth mindset and comfort with ambiguity
• Experience collaborating with distributed/global teams

What we offer

At Education Perfect, we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive - professionally and personally. When you join EP, you’ll have access to a thoughtfully designed range of benefits that support wellbeing, flexibility and long-term growth:

• Employee Equity Bonus Plan – Share in EP’s success through equity bonuses that foster ownership and collective growth
• Christmas Shutdown Leave – Enjoy a full company shutdown over Christmas, with additional paid leave to bridge non-public holidays
• Volunteer Day – One paid day per year to give back to a cause or community you care about
• Purchase Extra Leave – Option to buy an extra week of annual leave, with payments spread across the year
• Work From Anywhere – Work up to 90 days per year from another state or country
• Wellness Bonus – Pre-tax $750 NZD end-of-year bonus to support your health and wellbeing
• Health Insurance – Fully funded Southern Cross Wellbeing 1 plan ($500 excess), with optional add-ons and family cover
• Home Set-Up Support – Assistance for eligible remote and hybrid employees to create a productive workspace
• Communication Allowance – $50 NZD/month toward phone and internet costs (remote/hybrid employees)
• Parental Leave Support – Generous paid leave and top-ups for primary and secondary caregivers, plus New Parents Leave
• Employee Assistance Program – 24/7 confidential wellbeing, safety, and medical support via Sonder 
• Learning & Development – Access to workshops, development conversations and performance support
• Tenure Recognition – Bonus leave and rewards celebrating long-term milestones
• Referral Bonus – $2,000 NZD pre-tax bonus for successful employee referrals
• Workride Scheme – Save on bikes, e-bikes or scooters through pre-tax salary sacrifice
• EP Support Groups & Committees – Including Mana Wahine, DEI, Environmental Impact and Wellness

You’ll also be part of a growing global company with Diversity Works accreditation, Carbon Net Zero BCorp status, Digital Promise certification and a deep commitment to our mission, our people and the communities we serve.