Senior Full-Stack Engineer (React/Node/TypeScript) — First Engineering Hire, Australian EdTech

Remote — Coimbatore preferred; Tamil Nadu / India considered · Full time · Works directly with the founder in Australia

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About the role
Merit LMS is a live learning platform used by school children, their tutors and administrators in Australia. We're growing from hundreds of students to thousands, and the platform has to be rock-solid before we do. Making it so is this job. It's a TypeScript product: React + Vite on the front end, Express + Prisma + PostgreSQL on the back end, running on AWS, with Stripe billing and AI-assisted marking.

We build with Claude Code, an agentic AI coding tool, and that's how we'll keep building. You're not being hired to out-type an AI. You're being hired to take over the technical running of the platform from the founder:



decide how things get built, direct the AI agents that build them, and be the last line of defence before anything reaches a child's screen.

You'd be the only engineer. The founder is non-technical and is handing the platform over to you, but stays closely involved in the product and makes the business calls.

How decisions work here (please read this part)
• The founder makes all business decisions: pricing, what we sell, what we promise families, and what ships when.
• You own the technical and design approach. On work that's been handed to you, you pick the best way to do it. You don't need permission for every choice.
• Good ideas are welcome and expected, but you run them past the founder before building. Nothing significant gets built off your own bat.
• Your authority grows over about six months. You start with minor features and improvements. As trust builds, more of the day-to-day design and prioritisat

📌 Full Stack Engineer (Coimbatore)
🏢 Merit Tutoring
📍 Coimbatore