Full Stack Software Engineer (React / .NET)

About the Role

Requirements

• About You
• You will bring:
• 2+ years professional experience in software development.
• Familiarity with, or the aptitude to quickly pick up, our core stack: C#/.NET and React.
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases (we use SQL and MongoDB).
• Solid computer science fundamentals and a good grasp of clean code and software design principles.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor or similar).
• A real interest in the whole software lifecycle: testing, shipping and supporting code in production.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• A proactive mindset: you take ownership, share ideas and see them through.
• Curiosity about the product and the business, not just the code.
• Highly regarded:
• A disciplined approach to AI: writing the specs, context and guardrails that make agents useful on a real codebase.
• An eye for quality that catches problems before they ship, such as unnecessary abstractions, duplicated logic and subtle bugs.
• The instinct to trace a problem to its root before reaching for a solution.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Benefits

• Why Join Compass
• You'll join a purpose-driven company at a genuinely exciting stage of growth, with real variety in the work - from new products to the core platform and senior engineers around you to learn from.
• What we offer:
• A hybrid working environment, based out of our Melbourne office hub.
• Learning and development opportunities, including a dedicated PD budget.
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including face-to-face, phone and live chat support.
• A parental leave program for both primary and secondary carers.
• Regular team events, social budgets and in-office perks help you stay connected, from team lunches to end-of-week socials.
• Employee Referral Program
• A supportive, inclusive culture where your voice is valued and heard.
• Compass is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
• Prior to commencing employment, you’ll need:
• A valid Employee Working With Children Check
• A satisfactory National Police Check
• Verification of unrestricted work rights in Australia (e.g. citizenship, passport or birth certificate)
• Ready to Apply?
• Find out more about Compass on our website - www.compass.education

Responsibilities

• Take on well-scoped pieces of work and carry them from ticket to production, working closely with product managers, owners and fellow engineers.
• Design, develop and maintain secure, well-structured, high-performance software used by thousands of students, parents and teachers around the world.
• Scale up and flesh out new web applications, and build new features on top of the Compass core platform.
• Write clean, well-tested code, including unit tests for your own changes and critical paths.
• Give and receive code review as a core way to grow your craft.
• Analyse problems to uncover hidden complexity, and design solutions that balance technical feasibility with business value.
• Document meaningful technical decisions.
• Use Claude Code day to day to speed up delivery without compromising quality.
• Know where AI helps, where it doesn't, and what to do about it.
• Work with product managers and owners to understand customer needs and make sure solutions deliver the right outcome.
• Take part in sprint planning, technical design sessions and retrospectives with well-prepared ideas.
• Work with the support team to triage and resolve production issues.
• Communicate ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Keep learning modern frameworks, tools and practices, and apply them to improve the product and how we build it.