Speaking practice
Guided activities that help children practise English aloud and build confidence through regular repetition.
Currently in development
Helping children build clear, confident English from the beginning.
Koo English is developing an English speaking and pronunciation platform for children, beginning with families and education partners in Malaysia.
Founded in Australia. Building for Malaysia. Designed with an international vision.
Our mission
Make high-quality English speaking education more accessible.
We are building for children who may have limited opportunities to practise English at home. Our aim is to combine good teaching design with appropriate technology so that children can practise speaking, hear clear models and build confidence at a manageable pace.
Our learning outcome
Clear, functional and internationally intelligible English.
What we are building
A guided English speaking journey for young learners.
Koo English is currently in product and curriculum development.
Clear pronunciation models
Learning flows designed around clear examples, careful listening and age-appropriate speaking support.
Progress for adults
Tools that help parents, educators and partners understand practice, progress and learning needs.
Careers
Help us build a better way for children to learn English.
We are looking for capable, thoughtful people who believe technology should support good teaching rather than replace it.
Curriculum and Learning Lead
Design and produce the educational foundation for Koo English's children's English speaking and pronunciation programme.
Full-Stack Developer (Flutter & Backend)
Build mobile and backend features for a child-focused English speaking platform across Flutter, APIs, PostgreSQL and cloud services.
Curriculum and Learning Lead — Children's English Speaking & Pronunciation
We are seeking a hands-on Curriculum and Learning Lead to design and produce the educational foundation for a digital English-speaking and pronunciation programme for young learners aged 6 to 9.
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Location: Malaysia preferred; remote or hybrid arrangement may be considered.
Engagement: Substantial part-time fixed-term appointment or consultancy, approximately 12 months and subject to agreed milestones.
Compensation: Please state your expected monthly salary, part-time salary, retainer or consultancy fee.
Key responsibilities
- Design the speaking, listening, vocabulary and pronunciation progression for young multilingual learners.
- Create or closely review digital lesson specifications, scripts, prompts, model answers, activity flows and acceptance criteria.
- Develop guided exchanges, role-play scenarios, question-answer routines and confidence-building speaking tasks.
- Build child-friendly sound-awareness and pronunciation practice while coordinating with speech or assessment specialists.
- Ensure consistent British English spelling, vocabulary and model-language choices while supporting internationally intelligible communication.
- Map relevant learning outcomes and speaking evidence to Malaysian primary expectations and defensible CEFR-related descriptors where appropriate.
- Prepare structured lesson records, vocabulary tables, sentence patterns, activity metadata, audio instructions and versioned content fields.
- Define observable speaking outcomes, practice routes, retry guidance, weak-area support and parent-friendly evidence statements.
- Maintain curriculum standards, review checklists, content versioning, educational claim controls and age-appropriate language safeguards.
- Work with product, technical, UX, speech, localisation, QA and privacy specialists.
Requirements and qualifications
- Degree in TESL, Applied Linguistics, Education, English Language Teaching, Curriculum and Instruction, Primary Education or a related field.
- At least seven years of relevant teaching, curriculum-development, learning-design, instructional-design or young-learner English experience.
- Strong understanding of children aged 6 to 9, second-language acquisition and child-friendly oral-language development.
- Ability to design spoken-language lessons, guided conversation activities, vocabulary progression and oral practice routines.
- Working knowledge of phonics, phonemic awareness, pronunciation teaching, sound contrasts and early speech confidence.
- Excellent command of British English spelling, vocabulary and model usage.
- Ability to convert curriculum ideas into precise, structured specifications for an app or online learning platform.
- Excellent English writing, editing, simplification and parent-facing explanation skills.
- Ability to collaborate with software developers, designers, QA testers, speech reviewers and localisation specialists.
Preferred experience
- Experience with Malaysian primary learners, KSSR English expectations or Southeast Asian multilingual classrooms.
- Experience in EdTech, computer-assisted language learning, AI-assisted education or online teaching.
- Experience creating digital lesson flows, teacher guides, parent reports, learning metadata, content taxonomies or app-based activities.
- Experience supervising curriculum writers, content producers, reviewers, voice talent or localisation contributors.
- Familiarity with child usability, learning analytics, structured assessment evidence or pilot-based curriculum improvement.
Working style
- Hands-on and willing to produce, not only advise.
- Documentation-first, organised and comfortable with versioned content workflows.
- Able to balance academic quality with practical product, budget and implementation constraints.
- Careful with educational claims; avoids guaranteed fluency, guaranteed CEFR outcomes or accent-elimination promises.
- Respectful of Malaysian multilingual learners and committed to inclusive, developmentally appropriate learning design.
How to apply: Please email careers@kooenglish.com with the subject line: Application - Curriculum and Learning Lead. Please include a detailed CV, relevant portfolio or samples, a brief summary of your young-learner or multilingual English experience, current location, availability, earliest possible start date and expected salary, retainer or consultancy fee.
Only shortlisted candidates may be contacted. Koo English assesses applicants on relevant skills, experience, professional judgement and ability to perform the role.
Full-Stack Developer — Flutter & Backend
We are seeking a hands-on Full-Stack Developer to support the development of a child-focused digital English speaking and pronunciation platform. The role involves building mobile and backend features, secure APIs, data structures, internal tools and third-party integrations under an agreed technical direction.
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Location: Malaysia preferred; remote or hybrid may be considered.
Engagement: Fixed-term contract, project-based consultancy or part-time development support.
Compensation: Please state your expected monthly retainer, hourly rate, day rate or project fee.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Flutter application features for guardian flows, child profiles, lesson navigation, audio recording, replay and upload.
- Build backend APIs, service logic, database models, migrations and internal administration functions.
- Implement secure authentication, role-based access, child/guardian data separation and audit-aware workflows.
- Support structured lesson delivery, content configuration, reporting flows and internal CMS-style controls.
- Integrate approved third-party services through secure, documented and testable API boundaries.
- Handle audio, file upload, validation, retry, error states and poor-network scenarios in a safe user experience.
- Write unit, integration and regression tests for critical mobile, backend and API flows.
- Assist with CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, logging, backup, rollback and environment configuration where required.
- Investigate bugs, performance issues and cross-device behaviour, and provide clear fixes and technical notes.
- Maintain clear documentation, handover notes and implementation records.
Requirements and qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience and portfolio evidence.
- At least four years of commercial software-development experience, including meaningful full-stack delivery responsibility.
- Strong Flutter and Dart experience, including state management, navigation, API integration, local device behaviour and mobile debugging.
- Strong backend experience using TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java, .NET or a comparable production framework.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL or another relational database, including schema design, migrations, indexes and data integrity.
- Experience building REST or similar APIs, authentication flows, permissions, file upload, background processing or asynchronous jobs.
- Familiarity with cloud services, environment configuration, secrets management, logging and deployment workflows.
- Ability to write clean, testable, maintainable code and participate in code review.
- Good understanding of secure coding, personal-data protection, least-privilege access and safe logging practices.
- Clear written communication and ability to document assumptions, risks, implementation notes and handover steps.
Preferred experience
- Experience with EdTech, child-facing products, audio features, speech technology, learning platforms or multilingual applications.
- Experience with admin dashboards, CMS-style tools, content workflows, reporting or subscription-related features.
- Experience testing on a range of Android devices and handling microphone, media, upload or low-connectivity issues.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or equivalent managed cloud services.
- Experience using AI-assisted coding tools responsibly while maintaining human engineering judgement.
- Experience working with designers, curriculum teams, QA testers, privacy advisers or non-technical product owners.
Working style and terms
- Hands-on, practical and comfortable working in an early-stage product environment.
- Able to turn written requirements, wireframes and curriculum specifications into working product features.
- Evidence-led and willing to test, document and improve rather than assume that a feature is complete.
- Comfortable working under a Technical Lead, interim technical authority or agreed architecture and coding standards.
- Respectful of child privacy, data security and conservative handling of sensitive user information.
- This posting may be used to identify project-based or part-time development support and does not guarantee a full-time permanent role.
How to apply: Please email careers@kooenglish.com with the subject line: Application - Full-Stack Developer. Please include a detailed CV, links to relevant apps, websites, repositories or portfolio items, a short summary of your Flutter, backend and database experience, current location, availability, earliest possible start date, expected rate or project fee and preferred engagement structure.
Only shortlisted candidates may be contacted. Please do not submit confidential third-party code, child data, private client materials or information you are not authorised to share.
Child UX and Product Designer
Koo English invites Expressions of Interest from UX and product designers with experience in children’s, education, family or other high-trust digital products.
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Key responsibilities
- Design simple child and parent journeys for listening, recording, replay and retry.
- Create wireframes, clickable prototypes and a lightweight MVP design system.
- Design encouraging feedback, error and provider-fallback states.
- Support multilingual interfaces in English, Bahasa Malaysia and Mandarin.
- Plan and interpret child and parent usability testing.
What we are looking for
- 5+ years in UX, interaction or digital product design.
- Strong mobile-product portfolio and implementation-ready design skills.
- Experience conducting usability research and testing.
- Child, education, family, healthcare or other high-trust product experience preferred.
- Multilingual UX and accessibility experience are advantageous.
How to apply: Please send your CV or profile, relevant portfolio, availability and expected rate to careers@kooenglish.com with the subject: Expression of Interest - Child UX and Product Designer.
Paediatric Speech Review Lead
Koo English invites Expressions of Interest from qualified speech and language professionals to support the safe and educationally appropriate use of automated pronunciation assessment with children aged 6-8.
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Key responsibilities
- Advise on age-appropriate speech and pronunciation expectations.
- Review scripted activities, feedback language and human-review rubrics.
- Compare automated results with blinded human judgements.
- Support activity-specific approval, threshold calibration and exception review.
- Help distinguish accent variation, developmental variation and poor recording quality.
What we are looking for
- Recognised Speech-Language Pathology, Speech Therapy or equivalent qualification.
- Relevant professional registration or membership where applicable.
- Experience working with children aged approximately 5-9.
- Experience with multilingual children or second-language English learners.
- Malaysian or Southeast Asian speech experience is highly desirable.
How to apply: Please send your CV or profile, qualifications, registration details, relevant experience, availability and expected rate to careers@kooenglish.com with the subject: Expression of Interest - Paediatric Speech Review Lead.
Privacy, Child Data and Safeguarding Adviser
Koo English invites Expressions of Interest from privacy, child-data governance and safeguarding professionals to advise on the responsible development of a platform that may process children’s voice recordings and learning data.
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Key responsibilities
- Review consent, parental authority, retention, deletion and data-access controls.
- Advise on Malaysian privacy requirements and cross-border processing.
- Review speech-provider agreements, subprocessors and data-use terms.
- Translate legal and policy requirements into practical product controls.
- Support child-testing, incident-response and commercial-readiness reviews.
What we are looking for
- Relevant legal, privacy, governance, cybersecurity or safeguarding qualifications.
- Strong working knowledge of Malaysian privacy requirements.
- Experience with children’s or other sensitive data.
- Experience reviewing technology vendors and data-processing agreements.
- Ability to provide practical, implementation-focused advice.
How to apply: Please send your CV or profile, relevant qualifications, experience and expected rate to careers@kooenglish.com with the subject: Expression of Interest - Privacy, Child Data and Safeguarding Adviser.
QA and Device Testing Specialist
Koo English invites Expressions of Interest from experienced mobile QA and device-testing specialists to support the staged validation of a children’s English speaking platform.
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Key responsibilities
- Prepare test plans covering mobile, API, audio, permissions and failure scenarios.
- Test recording, replay, upload, network interruption and provider-unavailable behaviour.
- Test across representative Android and iOS devices and operating conditions.
- Verify privacy, access control, deletion, review and parent-report workflows.
- Document defects, verify fixes and support release-readiness decisions.
What we are looking for
- 5+ years in software QA, mobile testing or test engineering.
- Strong experience with structured test cases and defect evidence.
- Experience with API and backend verification.
- Mobile automation experience is desirable.
- Audio, EdTech, child-facing or sensitive-data product experience is advantageous.
How to apply: Please send your CV or profile, relevant assignments, available test devices, availability and expected rate to careers@kooenglish.com with the subject: Expression of Interest - QA and Device Testing Specialist.
Partners and collaborators
We welcome conversations with people who share our vision.
Discuss a partnershipKoo English is interested in future collaboration with kindergartens, tuition centres, schools, curriculum specialists, speech-technology providers and responsible education partners.
Technology is most valuable when it helps a child practise more effectively, helps an adult understand progress and makes good learning support easier to reach.
Koo English Academy Pty Ltd
Contact
Start a conversation with Koo English.
We are currently building the platform and preparing for future recruitment, testing and education partnerships.