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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">About Kami</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Kami is a thriving organisation filled to the brim with talented, creative, and passionate people! It’s hard not to love what you do when our leading digital classroom platform offers meaningful solutions to over 50 million users worldwide, empowering students and supporting teachers!</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">You’ll be joining at a pretty magical time. Kami’s user base is growing by the day. With over 170 team members across the world, we couldn’t be prouder of the accomplishments and milestones we’ve achieved to date. Now, this is your chance to join our team and become an integral member of Kami’s growth, while shaping your own future (and having fun doing it)!</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">The Opportunity</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">As an engineer for this forward-thinking scaleup, you will not be locked in the backroom implementing specs sheets—you’ll be talking to the customers/teachers who already love their product and figuring out how to make it work even better for them. This position will suit an Engineer with a good product sense who is comfortable working relatively autonomously but who can also collaborate well both internally and externally.</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: underline\">This opportunity is based in our fully renovated Auckland office</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">. We have a hybrid arrangement of Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in office. Tuesdays and Thursdays are work from home. </span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">What You’ll Do</span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\"><br></span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Provide technical leadership and direction</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Review existing prioritisation processes and provide guidance on improvements, making decisions to guide engineering progress and impact</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Lead discussion and continuous improvement on design and development of complex software architecture, systems, and platforms</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt\">Mentor and coach engineering staff by role modelling best in class engineering standards</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; 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