School management platform serving millions across Australia and UK/Ireland
Compass Education operates a school management platform used by millions of students, staff, parents, and alumni across Australia, UK, and Ireland. The tech stack is enterprise-grade (Dell EMC, HPE, VMware, SQL Server, .NET) with frontend modernization underway (React, React Native, TypeScript), but the hiring mix—support and engineering dominating, sales and customer success underweighted—signals internal capacity strain around reliability and technical debt rather than growth-led expansion.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Technology
Compass Education builds a connected school management platform used across K–12 institutions in Australia, the UK, and Ireland. The platform consolidates student information, staff workflows, parent engagement, and alumni relations into a single system serving millions of users. Headquartered in Hawthorn, Victoria, with offices across Australia and international bases in London and Dublin, the company operates at enterprise scale with legacy infrastructure (Windows Server, SQL Server, HPE storage) supporting critical school operations. Current focus areas include platform reliability, reducing technical debt, and improving customer onboarding and adoption.
Compass runs a .NET and Node.js backend on Windows Server and Ubuntu, SQL Server and NoSQL databases, with React and React Native frontends. Infrastructure spans Dell EMC PowerVault and HPE Nimble Storage on VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. Sales/support tools include HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Aircall, and Zoom.
Compass Education is headquartered in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, with additional offices in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, London, and Dublin. All current hiring is in Australia.
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