Head of Engineering

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. Join EP as our next Head of Engineering, where you'll lead high-performing product development teams focused on delivering impactful features that help every student reach their full potential. In this pivotal role, you'll drive technical strategy in alignment with EP’s broader goals, while providing cross-functional leadership across people, culture, technology, and engineering operations. What you will do Lead and develop our team of high-performing engineers through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and career development. Own recruitment, onboarding, learning & development, and performance assessment for engineering team members. Empower teams by sharing context, setting objectives, and providing autonomy. In collaboration with the Head of Delivery, create a strong delivery culture, and continuously evolve our delivery practices. In collaboration with the Head of Security, ensure continued platform compliance in line with our ISO, security, and privacy requirements. In collaboration with principal engineers and enablement teams, evolve the platform architecture towards a modern, flexible stack with a cohesive set of reusable patterns and components. Introduce meaningful metrics and measure the performance of teams and individuals. Support all horizontal team structures (chapters), and facilitate healthy discussion and decision making that aligns with company goals. Actively contribute to the evolution of our technology stack, tooling, and technical standards. Lead associated documentation initiatives. Represent engineering leadership in product discovery and roadmap development. Communicate technical constraints and considerations, and how they relate to feasibility and sequencing. Horizontally coordinate and align teams, managing domain boundaries, technical dependencies, enablers, and blockers. About you Broad experience building and operating cloud software at scale, in both hands-on development and senior leadership roles. Experience building diverse team environments with a culture of trust, ownership, and accountability. A strong customer focus, and the ability to align engineering work with high-level organisational goals. Excellent communication skills, including the ability to align cross-functional groups, and clearly explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Deep technical and architectural experience, and the ability to drive technical strategy. Ability to manage risk, ambiguity, dependencies, and cross-functional stakeholders. The curiosity, flexibility, and resilience to operate in a fast-moving organization. Experience building and leading distributed teams in global engineering organisations. Equitable opportunities, growth, and development lie at the heart of how we work at EP. We understand that not all applicants may possess all the following attributes so if you think you have what it takes, but are not sure you check every box, we would love to still hear from you! What we offer Employee Equity Bonus Plan: Be part of our success with equity bonuses that foster ownership and shared growth across the company Christmas Shutdown Leave: Enjoy a full company shutdown during the week of Christmas, with 3 extra days of paid leave to bridge any non-public holidays Volunteer Day: All EPeeps receive one paid day per year to volunteer and give back to their communities Purchase Extra Leave: Opt-in 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 a different state or country—perfect for blending work and travel Wellness Bonus: Receive a pre-tax $750 NZD End-of-Year Wellness Bonus to support your health and well-being Health Insurance: Join our fully funded Southern Cross Wellbeing 1 plan ($500 excess), with optional add-ons and family cover Home Set-Up Support: Remote and hybrid workers may be eligible for support to set up a productive and comfortable home workspace Communication Allowance: Get $50 NZD/month toward your phone and internet costs if you work remotely or in a hybrid setup Parental Leave Support: We support growing families with up to 12 weeks of full-pay top-up for primary caregivers, 3 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers, and an extra 5 days of New Parents Leave for both, all available after your first 3 months. Returning primary caregivers also receive enhanced pension contributions to support their financial wellbeing. Employee Assistance Program: Access 24/7 confidential support via Sonder for mental health, safety and medical needs - available globally and fully funded by EP Learning & Development: Access engaging internal workshops, performance reviews and ongoing development discussions to grow your career Tenure Recognition: Celebrate your milestones with bonus leave and cash rewards at 5, 10, and 15 years of service Referral Bonus: Recommend great people and earn a $2000 NZD pre-tax bonus when your referral joins and passes their trial period Workride: Access a bike, e-bike, or scooter through a temporary pre-tax salary sacrifice, saving 32–63% thanks to tax benefits. EP Support Groups: Mana Wahine, DEI, Environmental Impact and Wellness Committees The opportunity to work within a growing global business with Diversity Works accreditation, Carbon Net Zero BCorp status, Digital Promise certification, and an unwavering commitment to our mission, people, and community We celebrate individuality, value diversity, and understand that flexible and remote work opportunities enable our team members to work in a way that fosters creativity and inspires individual brilliance. When you work with us, you're not just joining a company - you're joining a team united by the desire to make a difference.