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Teneo Online School

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2018

📚 Education

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

Education • B2C • eCommerce

Teneo Online School is a leading online educational institution offering flexible learning options for students from Grade R to Grade 12. The school provides live online classes and pre-recorded lessons taught by expert teachers, accommodating various learning preferences. Teneo offers a structured curriculum with access to three top examination boards recognized locally and internationally. The school supports an interactive learning environment with resources like lesson recordings, a learning platform, and a Parent App. Students can participate in the Teneo Open Day to explore what makes it South Africa's top online school. Teneo emphasizes high-quality online schooling and aims to unlock the extraordinary potential in every child.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, webhooks and integration services. • Develop secure, scalable foundations for multi-tenant education products. • Build and improve integrations with learning platforms, third-party services, AI providers and internal systems. • Design reliable data flows for assessment, feedback, learner activity, reporting and operational workflows. • Build and maintain authentication, authorisation, permissions and audit capabilities appropriate for education products. • Work with PostgreSQL, BigQuery and modern cloud application infrastructure. • Build and deploy containerised services in cloud environments. • Improve reliability, observability, performance and maintainability across backend systems. • Investigate production issues, identify root causes and implement durable fixes. • Work closely with Product and AI Engineers to turn product needs into scalable technical systems. • Engage with education partners where useful to understand real workflows and improve integrations. • Use AI-assisted development tools appropriately while maintaining strong standards for testing, security and code quality. • Write clean, tested and maintainable code.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional backend engineering experience in production environments. • Experience owning backend services, APIs, integrations, webhooks or cloud-based systems beyond narrowly scoped feature delivery. • Strong experience with TypeScript/Node.js, Python or similar modern backend technologies. • Experience with frameworks such as NestJS, FastAPI, Express or similar. • Solid understanding of APIs, authentication, validation, permissions, databases and backend architecture. • Experience with PostgreSQL and modern cloud platforms. • Experience integrating third-party APIs, SaaS platforms or AI services. • Experience with Docker or similar containerisation tools. • A self-directed mindset and the ability to investigate unclear technical problems, make sound decisions and move work towards practical solutions. • Strong ownership, debugging and problem-solving skills. • Clear written and spoken English. • Nice to have Experience with learning-platform integrations, LTI standards or education technology. • Experience with event-driven systems, data pipelines, workflow automation or integration-heavy products. • Experience building multi-tenant SaaS products. • Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, logging, privacy, security or auditability. • Experience with Google Cloud or comparable cloud platforms. • A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering or a related technical discipline.