Junior Full Stack Developer (Java / React)

at  Compass Education

COME SHAPE THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION WITH US.

We love working with schools and strive to deliver new innovations, functions, and process improvements as new technology becomes available. Our services are specifically designed to improve not only the school process but also community culture and student learning outcomes.
Griddle is a catalyst in education, enabling schools to offer a more personalised, engaging, and effective learning journey for every student. At Griddle, we want to revolutionise the educational experience by providing advanced timetabling solutions for our schools.
Our school management ecosystem is now used in more than 3,000 schools across Australia and beyond. We’re joined by over 200 members of the Compass team, delivering smart school management solutions around the world.

ABOUT THE ROLE & TEAM

We’re looking for a passionate individual to join our Griddle (Timetabling) team as a Junior Software Engineer. Reporting to the Griddle Engineering Manager, this role will be working on our new timetabling product, Griddle, where you’ll focus on features including: Course Selection, Class List Management, Timetable Generation and much more.
You’ll build and deploy new functionalities, support existing features, improve site scalability, infrastructure and testing, all while working in a highly collaborative and agile environment.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Design, develop and maintain secure, scalable software that’s used by thousands of students, parents and teachers throughout the world.
• Inspire quality and best practices by championing software craftsmanship, clean code and pair programming.
• Have the opportunity to gain and practice the skills that will enable you to own the development process for small but interesting projects end-to-end. You’ll work with the Engineering & Product teams to ship work that matters, with a good balance of autonomy and support as you level up your craft.
• Build great relationships with your team, be generous with your thoughts and feedback (and be open to receiving it!).
• Contribute to our diverse and inclusive culture and take pride in doing work that makes a real difference for school communities.