Software Engineer: Full-Stack

TL;DR - Own and scale the core product experience — build, ship, and iterate end-to-end systems that make education and college management delightful and generational.

Location & Work Hours: This role is based in India, working remotely for our Toronto, ON headquarters. Candidates must be available from 5:30 PM – 2:30 AM IST, with flexibility for project needs and on-call responsibilities.

About us

Thompson Career College (part of Pioneer World Education Group) is building fast-moving, user-obsessed education products. We value ownership, candor, and speed — and we're looking for an entrepreneurial engineer who can take ideas from sketch to millions of happy users.

What you'll do

• Implement and maintain features across the full stack (frontend, backend, infra) and own them end-to-end: architecture → implementation → deployment → iteration.
• Build and harden integrations with our LMS (Moodle) and third-party systems.
• Design scalable architectures, make tradeoffs for performance and cost, and reduce single-points-of-failure.
• Automate internal workflows and business processes using tools like n8n and develop reliable workflow automations.
• Prototype and productize AI capabilities (chatbots, content generation, RAG, prompt-driven features).
• Improve developer experience: CI/CD, observability, dev environments, and internal tooling.
• Collaborate with product, ops, and content teams to translate requirements into delightful user experiences.
• Own incident response and post-mortems; continuously improve system reliability.

Must-have (required)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent technical degree.
• 3+ years building and shipping full-stack production products.
• Strong frontend skills: React + TypeScript experience preferred).
• Backend and API design experience , serverless functions, or similar).
• Solid systems design fundamentals — scalable architecture, performance tradeoffs, and observability.
• Production experience with GitHub (workflows, PRs, branching, code review).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure: AWS and/or DigitalOcean (deployments, infra as code, monitoring).
• Experience operating or integrating with Moodle (LMS) or similar education platforms.
• Hands-on with automations: n8n, integration design, webhooks, and workflow reliability.
• Practical AI experience: prompt engineering, using LLM APIs (ChatGPT or similar), building AI-assisted features.
• Strong product sense and the ability to make pragmatic technical decisions.
• Excellent communication, ownership mentality, and ability to mentor others.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with Supabase, Vercel, serverless architectures, and edge functions.
• Familiarity with RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), vector DBs, or LLM ops tools (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex).
• Experience with SEO, Google Ads, and content-driven growth tactics.
• Experience improving developer DX: CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), internal CLIs, reproducible dev environments.
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Datadog).
• Prior experience leading a small engineering team or technical projects.
• n8n advanced workflows and enterprise automation experience.
• Relevant Master's / PG diploma or equivalent.
• Experience with accessibility, security best practices, and privacy compliance.

Our principles (how we work)

• Driver not Passenger — take ownership.
• No Room for Ego — team first.
• Amplify Each Other — unblock teammates.
• Drive Focused Urgency — ship thoughtfully, fast.
• Candor over Comfort — direct feedback.
• User Passion — obsess about user outcomes.

Perks & benefits

• Competitive compensation (salary + bonus; equity/long-term upside negotiable).
• Health insurance for Canadian Residents employees.
• Flexible time off and family support.
• Opportunity to lead and grow into a head of engineering role as the team scales.

Equal opportunity

We're an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to ₹2,400,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Work from home

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)