Lead Software Developer; Remote

You’ll be working on a powerful, all-in-one digital platform built for schools, designed to simplify and modernise how educational institutions operate. The system brings together learner and staff management, attendance tracking, behavior monitoring, assessments, reporting, and communication into a single, intuitive solution.

The platform integrates seamlessly with key education, learning, and finance systems, offers customisable reporting, and includes a fully featured mobile app that keeps schools, teachers, parents, and students connected and informed. By reducing administrative workload and improving efficiency, the platform allows educators to focus on what matters most: student success.

As a developer on this product, your work will directly shape how schools operate every day.

🌟 The Role

In this role, you will:

• Take technical ownership of an existing platform and guide its ongoing evolution.
• Enhance, maintain, and scale the system to support continued growth and increasing usage.
• Help bring development further in-house by shaping standards, tools, and best practices.
• Work closely with stakeholders to translate real operational needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor and support an entry-level developer as the team grows.

This role blends hands-on development with technical leadership, giving you real influence over the product’s future.

You’ll work primarily with:

• C#
• SQL
• Razor (UI components and templating)

You are someone who:

• Enjoys improving, optimising, and scaling existing systems.
• Is comfortable taking ownership and making thoughtful technical decisions.
• Can work independently in a remote environment while collaborating effectively with others.
• Is excited about mentoring and helping grow a small development function.
• Cares about building software that has meaningful, real-world impact.
• Immediate impact on a live, widely used platform.
• Ownership and influence over how the product evolves.
• Competitive salary and benefits aligned with your experience.
• Fully remote flexibility, working from anywhere in South Africa.
• Long-term growth as the platform and development team continue to expand.