Hybrid Software Engineer, Product Focused, Full Stack

at Cadmus

• Job title: Software Engineer, Product Focused, Full Stack
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Elixir, GraphQL, React, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Melbourne, Australia

About the role

• Full Stack Software Engineer in a hybrid role at Cadmus, enhancing educational platforms through customer-driven product improvements. Collaborate in a diverse team to drive software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Talk to customers and sit in on support conversations to understand pain points firsthand, then translate those insights into concrete product improvements.
• Build and ship features across the stack — React and TypeScript on the frontend, Elixir and GraphQL on the backend.
• Make real decisions about what to build and how. You'll weigh trade-offs around UX, performance, scalability, and business impact, and communicate your reasoning to the team.
• Design and implement core systems — robust GraphQL APIs, critical subsystems, and the frontend components that bring them to life.
• Shape our engineering culture by contributing ideas beyond your own codebase, improving processes, and helping the team get better at building the right things.

Requirements

• A product mindset. You're naturally curious about users, you ask "why" before "how", and you're energised (not drained) by customer conversations.
• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong frontend skills with React, TypeScript, and a solid understanding of reactive data flow, state management, and GraphQL consumption.
• Backend experience — our backend is Elixir, and we love it. You don't need to know it yet, but you should be excited to learn. What matters is that you're comfortable picking up new languages and can reason confidently about data structures, type systems, APIs, and concurrency.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You can take a vague problem and turn it into a shipped solution without needing everything spelled out.
• A genuine love of the craft. Personal projects, open-source contributions, or just an enthusiasm for the latest thing you've been tinkering with — we want people who build because they enjoy it.

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