Senior Software Engineer (Data)

At Cadmus, we believe every student should have equal opportunity to achieve academic excellence; that’s why we’re changing how the world learns!

Cadmus is a global EdTech company purposefully built for the higher education sector to break down global learning barriers by providing educators and diverse student cohorts with access to high-quality learning and assessment. Built on rich, student-centric values, Cadmus empowers individuals to achieve their highest potential and graduate with the critical skills and knowledge to impact our workforces, communities, and evolving world profoundly.

What Will You Do?

At Cadmus, we’re working hard to achieve an ambitious, world-shaping goal: to provide 1 billion students with access to high-quality education by 2050.

That’s why we need a Senior Software Engineer (Data) with 4+ years of experience in data engineering. This person will be primarily responsible for developing and maintaining scalable data pipelines, integrating data from multiple sources, and ensuring that our data architecture supports business intelligence, reporting, and analytics requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and optimize our data infrastructure and provide clean, high-quality data to the business.

Requirements

• Tooling:
• Amazon Redshift
• AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS, and CloudWatch)
• Python
• dbt
• Business Intelligence tools
• Bonus: Jinja, Airflow, MWAA
• Engineering Experience:
• Have used dbt for solving real problems at work. You know where it can get tricky, and you have found a way around issues. 
• You have used Redshift extensively, and you know the best practices for working and maintaining data on it.
• Have used data modelling concepts (e.g. star, snowflake) to design efficient data structures in a data warehouse environment. You have seen scaling without loss of performance
• Built ETL/ELT pipelines and integrated data from multiple sources, including structured and unstructured data. 
• Have worked with large, complex datasets, with advanced knowledge of SQL for querying and optimizing. 
• Built large-scale data scraping processes for business intelligence purposes.
• Startup DNA:
• You have been entrusted with critical decision-making.
• You understand the pros and cons of the decisions that you have taken, and have reflected upon them.
• You can take an idea and take it all the way to closure, with minimal hand-holding.
• You’re flexible, comfortable with ambiguity, and have experience scaling systems to support rapid growth. 
• You have been a one-person army when needed, working with multiple stakeholders for their data needs.

Considerations:

• This is an Individual Contributor (IC) role. You will be collaborating with other developers, and participating in group-level activities like code reviews, stand-ups, but the magic that we can create is the extra 10-20% that we are willing to go for our users, and that starts with the effort we put in everyday, on everything. You will need to truly own the work that you do, which includes the quality bar that you set for yourself and others.
• It is expected that you will be able to operate with a high degree of autonomy. We are a small team of engineers (<10) and we will need you to be proactive and solve problems with other stakeholders (e.g product, design) without needing a lot of handholding.
• We are growing quickly, which also means there is increased competitive pressure and customer expectations. Hence, we have to build a lot of product and supporting infrastructure FAST.
• We were born in Melbourne, and continue to have a very strong presence there, including some of our most experienced team members. Hence, it is expected, from a communication and training POV, that you will be able to achieve at least 5 hours of overlap with the team in Melbourne, which typically works between 9 AM and 630 PM AEST.
• Finally, due to legal reasons, employees outside Australia will be on the books officially as a Contractor. That has no bearing on how your day to day at Cadmus would look like.

Benefits

• A remote-friendly, flexible working culture; where you can work from any global location
• A diverse and inclusive workplace where there are no barriers to anyone succeeding
• A surrounding team of mission-driven individuals who genuinely love what they do
• Mentoring and succession planning for your career

Hiring Process

Our interview process is usually a video response round, a hiring manager interview, a programming task and debrief, and a conversation with our founders.

While we review your application, please get to know us by visiting cadmus.io or following our social channels.

Inclusivity at Cadmus

At Cadmus, we hire great people from various backgrounds because it strengthens our company. We never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, or disability status. If you share our values and enthusiasm for education, you will find a home at Cadmus.

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