Role : Frontend Developer
Location : Remote (India)Employment Type : Full-Time
About Us :
At Contour Education, we reshape how students learn through small-group tutoring, personalised support, and high-quality learning resources. Since early 2020, weve supported 6,000+ students and grown to a team of 250+ in Australia and 70+ in India.Now, were building a custom LMS to unify tutoring, resources, and support. As one of Australias Fastest Growing Startups (Australian Financial Review, 3 years running), we value low bureaucracy, rapid iteration, and empowering engineers to choose and shape tools and architectures.
What Were Looking For :
Were not just hiring a developer - were inviting someone to help shape our guild of engineers. Whether youve held a formal title or built real things on your own, we care about curiosity, technical skill, and your willingness to grow alongside others who take their craft seriously.This role is ideal for ambitious early-career devs with a strong foundationor developers with 12+ years of experience who are ready to take on more ownership, architectural influence, and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-moving environment.One of the first results of our new engineering direction was our Test Prep sitedesigned and built from the ground up by our Onshore Project Owner : custom LMS is currently in active development and will be the next major product to launch - shaped collaboratively by our growing engineering team.
Why Join Contour?
- Bleeding-Edge Tech & Autonomy : Propose and integrate modern frameworks after collaborative discussions. Experiment, iterate, and pilot new tools.
- Early-Stage Influence : As one of the first India engineering hires, youll shape core architecture for our website and LMS while proposing and piloting developer tooling, CI/CD workflows, and deployment strategies.
- Hands-On Operator Mindset : Blend architectural foresight with practical execution. Prototype, design microservices, and ship production-grade features while shaping scalable systems.
- Open-Source Adaptation : Evaluate and extend community-led tools. Make sharp build-vs-buy decisions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration : Work closely with the Onshore Project Owner, Head of IT (India), CRM admins, QA, and Product Stakeholders (Co-Founders, Tutors).
- Growth & Learning : Level up with support for courses, conferences, and experimentation in a high-trust environment.
- Impact : Your work will directly affect thousands of students, improving learning outcomes at scale.
Role Overview :
Join our India engineering team at a formative stage. Youll start by enhancing our Next.js website and then drive the development of our custom LMS.
Website Enhancement (Initial Focus) :
- Improve our Next.js site, implement designs and build custom components.
- Deliver performance optimisations, feature enhancements, and reliability fixes.
LMS Platform Development (Next Phase) :
Help build our new LMS platform using :
- Next.js frontend
- Next.js API Routes (server-side logic)
- Supabase (database + auth)
- Develop and maintain interactive content delivery features (custom video player, PDF viewer).
- Consume REST APIs from internal/external microservices.
- Implement frontend security best practices (input validation, secure API/cookie usage).
- Evaluate and adapt open-source libraries for performance and maintainability.
DevOps & Reliability :
- Contribute to code quality, documentation, and testing standards.
- Deploy frequently using Vercel, iterate via GitHub Actions.
Architecture & Collaboration :
- Be a key voice in architectural decisions from the frontend side.
- Communicate technical trade-offs clearly to product and stakeholders.
Continuous Learning & Experimentation :
- Stay current with Next.js ecosystem.
- Rapidly prototype, test, and refine new ideas.
Tech Stack (Core) :
- Frontend & Website : Next.js (React) on Vercel; Node.js
- LMS Platform : Next.js (frontend + API), Supabase, Cloudflare Stream, Trigger.dev, Google Cloud Run, Cloudflare Workers/R2
- Authentication : Clerk (or similar)
- Background Jobs : Trigger.dev
- DevOps & CI/CD : GitHub Actions, Docker/serverless, IaC principles
- Monitoring & Observability : Logging, metrics, tracing
- Open-Source Ecosystem : Evaluate, fork, and contribute to NPM/Python libraries
Were open to adopting new tools if they improve productivity, scalability, or student outcomes.
What Were Looking For :
- Competitive Compensation
- Fully Remote & Flexible Hours : Work from anywhere in India (9- 5pm IST)
- High Autonomy & Influence : Help shape our tech direction and work directly with founders
- Learning & Development : Budget and time for courses, conferences, and growth
- Cutting-Edge Projects : Microservices, edge computing, open-source, and more
- Collaborative Culture : Fast cycles, open feedback, and experimentation
- Real Impact : Improve learning outcomes for thousands of students and tutors
Join us early to build the future of education at Contour Education. We cant wait to see what youll create with us. Heres a look at the first product of our tech revamp - designed, developed, and deployed by our engineering team
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