Intermediate Agentic Teacher

Bring your agentic AI experience into New Zealand's first programme training developers for the new way of software development
Part-time, 30 hours per week. Fixed term across our first cohort (late July–November 2026).

About Dev Academy Aotearoa

Dev Academy has been running New Zealand's premier developer bootcamp for over 10 years. We take pride in graduating capable students who love our programme and change their lives with careers in tech. More broadly, we are a social enterprise working for a better, kinder and more diverse tech sector. Our core values are integrity, kindness, and effort.

The Agentic Launchpad

The Agentic Launchpad is our new programme — a 16-week, NZQA Level 6 qualification that trains developers to build real things using agentic AI workflows. Learners work on real projects, supervised by a small team of practitioners who are already doing this work.

This role

We're looking for an Intermediate Agentic Teacher to join that team. You'll work alongside Joshua Vial (programme lead) and a Senior Agentic Teacher, supporting learners through both six-week project cycles and into their industry placements.

There is a technical bar for this role. To be a strong candidate you need to have built with agentic AI systems — designed and shipped things with agent loops, tool use, and LLM orchestration. You've moved past autocomplete. You've run into roadblocks and solved them. And you can bring that understanding into a room with learners who are trying to get there.

You don't have to have a lot of teaching experience though it is a plus. If you're ready to step in and help others grow, we'll help you develop your facilitation and feedback skills alongside the team. What you do need is experience mentoring and directly supporting at least one junior developer during your career so far.

Key responsibilities

• Facilitate daily standups across learner project teams
• Provide regular feedback on learner work — code quality, process, professional practice
• Participate in and over time lead weekly group coaching sessions and 1:1 check-ins
• Participate in the code review pipeline — give substantive technical feedback on learner PRs, particularly around agentic patterns and AI-assisted development practices
• Mark programme assessments and provide written feedback to learners
• Help learners get unstuck — know when to guide, when to ask questions, and when to escalate
• During Module 2: support learners on industry placement and co-facilitate a project experience for learners who choose not to apply for a placement or apply and don't get one

What we need

• Minimum 2 years professional software development experience in a team environment
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI patterns, for example with agent loops, tool use, orchestration frameworks
• Active, hands-on use of AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor), and you reach for them naturally, not occasionally
• Practiced fundamentals: version control, code review, collaborative development practices
• Ability to explain technical concepts and give specific, useful feedback
• Experience mentoring, tutoring, or supporting other developers or learners

It would be great, but not necessary, to have experience with JavaScript/TypeScript or Python in a real project context.

You might fit the bill if

• You've built agentic things and you have real opinions about how they work and where they break
• You're honest and humble in the way that makes learners feel safe to ask questions and show uncertainty
• You bring energy and genuine care to helping others grow
• You're self-directed and reliable in an async remote environment
• You're comfortable in an environment that is new and evolving
• You have high attention to detail — marking, feedback, and record-keeping matter
• You have engaged with te ao Māori, tikanga Māori, te reo Māori or Te Tiriti o Waitangi
• You are able to embed and promote equity and inclusion through your actions and words
• You're into Dev Academy's social mission: a better, kinder, more diverse tech sector

We offer

• An opportunity to step into teaching in one of the most interesting technical environments in New Zealand right now
• A small, flexible team where you'll have the space to support and lead components of the programme and facilitate alongside experienced practitioners
• The opportunity to grow into future cohorts as the programme expands

Other information

This is a fixed term employment arrangement aligned to our cohort delivery dates. You receive a salary of $70,000–$90,000 per annum, plus holiday pay and KiwiSaver, over that term. There is no pathway to a permanent role after the Agentic Launchpad, but there may be an opportunity to join the Launchpad delivery team again in early 2027.

We welcome applications from people with non-traditional experience and from minority backgrounds and genders. Dev Academy has a strong commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. If you'd like to bring along whānau to speak on your behalf, we'd love to welcome you all.

If you're on the fence, please apply — even if you don't tick every box.

We're reviewing applications on a rolling basis — if you're interested, apply as soon as you're ready rather than waiting.

Please send your CV to jack.tolley@devacademy.co.nz and let us know the following:

1. Tell us about your agentic practice and how it's evolved over time — what have you tried, what have you moved away from, and what does your current practice look like?
2. What is your experience mentoring or supporting other developers? Tell us about one or two of the people you've helped — at what stage of their careers, and what you learned from it.
3. How do you connect with our values: Kindness, Integrity and Effort?
4. Why are you applying for this role on Agentic Launchpad?