We're a small, high-performing, diverse, tight-knit team with a mission to radically improve mainstream science education at schools. By creating the best science lessons in the world, coupled with intuitive tools that allow teachers to take advantage of the latest pedagogies, we’ve already helped millions of students in Australia get excited about science. Young people all over the world deserve a world-class science education. Stile is on a mission to ensure that students are able to critically evaluate what they see in their social media feeds, and feel confident using science and technology to solve the big issues of tomorrow. Every week over 250,000 students and their teachers use Stile’s web platform to explore and analyse the science behind the big issues facing us globally, a number we expect will more than double in the next couple of years as we expand internationally. Stile is used in 1 in 3 Australian secondary schools, with around 45% of year 7-10 students subscribed. That’s quite some reach, and it’s a responsibility we take extremely seriously. When you join our small team, you have a unique opportunity to have a massive impact on the future of science education. We need your help We’re looking for an exceptional Interactive Engineer to help craft high-quality simulations and interactive learning experiences. You’ll play a key role in building innovative tools that enhance digital learning and create engaging classroom experiences. For example: Build engaging, high-quality interactive simulations that allow students to explore and experiment with real-world concepts. Make our content even more accessible by using AI to help our writers provide lower literacy-level hints and scaffolding for students that need it Develop a suite of interactive widgets to improve lesson design and engagement. Create tooling for teachers to build high-quality graphics, and interactives without programming, using large language models fine tuned for coding. Enhance and extend our simulation tooling for rapid prototyping enabling faster and smoother development cycles for our interactive content team. Do your best work We make sure that our engineers' time isn't wasted. We provide: A highly-motivated and talented team with experienced engineers, and passionate new starters. A genuine commitment to the professional development of each engineer through training, coaching, mentorship opportunities, regular feedback and increasing responsibility Ongoing collaboration with our Science and Design teams to build the best possible platform for learning Science. Quality over quantity: we're pragmatists, but we already have an established business that's here for the long term, so maintenance matters more than up-front build time. We'd rather build it right than live with something broken. A near-continuous release cadence, involvement of engineers in the design process, and a willingness to take calculated risks. A large base of real customers, which is growing rapidly as we expand overseas. When you ship a feature 100,000 students will see it within the next day. Enormous respect for our employees’ work-life balance reflected in our parental leave policy, individual flexibility and sustainable project pace. A mission that drives our company, and a strong sense of ethics in everything we do. A modern tech stack. AWS. Terraform. Rust for tooling. CI on Buildkite. An API written in Ruby and Sorbet (not Rails), with a frontend in React and Typescript, glued together with Protobuf interfaces. Our simulations are built in TypeScript either with React, or with a Game Engine depending on what is appropriate. The highest standards for performance, accessibility, and usability, ensuring seamless interactive experiences. Great documentation. A culture of asking ‘how should this work?’ rather than ‘what's easiest?’ Extremely thorough test coverage, extensive use of live configuration and feature switching, and a rigorous CI and merge queue process that delivers provably working code rapidly. High standards: we love solutions that Just Work, and are prepared to spend the effort to build them. The resources and guidance you need to grow your career. We’ll provide you with transparency around expectations, promotion and pay, and opportunities to lead. You’ll attend conferences and internal and external professional development events. Your manager will be an experienced engineer, dedicated to helping you succeed. Stile is owned and led by engineers. Our CEO, CTO, and founder/majority-owner/chair — Alan Finkel — are all engineers, and understand what it takes to build something great. Great engineering gets noticed, and rewarded About you You're a critical thinker who sees the system as a whole, and finds ways to cut to the core of the issue. You have a background in building highly-interactive software, like games, mobile apps, or visualisations. You love designing and building engaging, interactive learning experiences that help students think differently. You think deeply about usability, accessibility, and interactivity. Including managing tradeoffs. You’re comfortable working with front-end frameworks like React and have experience (or interest) in technologies for interactivity such as Canvas/WebGL or animation libraries. You know that sometimes "more tech" isn't the answer. You love thinking about people, processes, and systems for continuous improvement, and use a balance of technology and people skills to have a huge impact You enjoy collaborating with designers, content creators, and educators to bring ideas to life in intuitive ways. You naturally put yourself in others' shoes and solve problems with their perspective at the top of your mind. You seek to understand your teammates rather than win today's argument. You win hearts and minds with carefully considered opinions, and know that success comes from having a whole team working together well. You raise up your peers' voices and enjoy nothing more than seeing your teammates succeed. You have a strong desire to improve things around you rather than just getting the job done. That said, you know that value exists only once it's shipped and are pragmatic about delivering results. There will never be enough time to do everything. You think about the value of competing projects and priorities, and enjoy finding the balance between things that are urgent today, and things that will set us up for success in the longer term. You're confident working independently with the tools you know, but appreciate opportunities to learn, know when to reach out for help, and love to help others. It doesn't matter if you're missing experience with our tech stack as long as you can show a track record of picking things up quickly. Life at Stile We’re here to build something real and enduring. A company that in years to come we look back on and are proud of what we achieved, and how we achieved it. So, what’s it like working with us? Colleagues worth working with. You’ll join an amazing 90-strong team of teachers, scientists, artists, and engineers. We hold ourselves, and each other, to a high standard, and love what we do. Work on something that really matters. In partnership with teachers, we’re coaching students to become problem solvers and critical thinkers. We believe that with a strong command of science, tomorrow’s citizens and leaders are set up to sort the misinformation from the facts. Support always. Stile is its people, and it’s important we are creating an environment where you’re supported, happy and able to do your best work. We have strong management and feedback frameworks, and a great benefits program check it out here Stile benefits A fantastic office environment. When we can, we spend time in the office. It has a huge central kitchen, lots of places to put your feet up to work and even end of trip facilities if you ride in. Flexibility. We expect that you work hard, but you’ll have flexible hours and you’re the master of your own schedule. Your own professional development. We’re lifelong learners here at Stile. Alongside teaching you everything you need to know to succeed in this role, we provide a generous PD allowance. Hours and location Our head office is located in the ‘Paris end’ of Melbourne CBD. Overall we’re an “in-person” culture (we enjoy working together face to face), but we’re also flexible with a mix of working from home and the office, once you settle in. Sound interesting? Great We want to know more about you, so click apply, and provide the following to show you’re great at following the details. A cover letter addressed to Ben Taylor (no more than a page) explaining why you would smash an interactive engineering role at Stile out of the park. Include a paragraph on which Behaviours of an Effective Stile-ist most resonate with you or which you disagree with and why Your resume Got questions about our hiring process? You can find the answers here . We can't wait to hear from you