Senior Software Engineer

📍 NZ Remote | 💰 $125,000 - $155,000 + Benefits | ⏰ Flexible Working Hours

At Centrapay, we’re revolutionising how you spend money both in-store and online. We allow businesses to create digital assets and loyalty programmes so that you can spend and be rewarded anywhere. Some of our partners include Coca-Cola, BNZ, and Farmlands, and we process payments in New Zealand and Australia.

Our payments platform is the heartbeat of what we do. On top of this, we're building our hero app, Payap, that brings all of our best capabilities to life.

We’re looking for Engineers who love building great products, enjoy supporting their teammates, and who are resilient in the face on ambiguous problems. In return, we’ll provide you with a supportive environment to grow and teach you how we use our tools to build amazing payment experiences.

💅 Your day-to-day

• We prioritise automation, test-driven development, and continuous deployment. You’ll be deploying code to production almost every day, including your very first day!
• Build products and features that need to you to make changes across the entire stack - including backend, frontend, infrastructure, and operations
• Lead design sessions with your team, design and product stakeholders to collaborate on upcoming requirements and solution design
• Support your teammates through code reviews, pair programming and thoughtful guidance that helps them develop their skills and confidence
• Benefit from dedicated support, including a manager focused on accelerating your growth and a comprehensive 2-month onboarding program to get you up to speed
• Dedicate 10% of your time to self-directed learning, empowering you to explore new ideas and develop your expertise

👀 Who we're looking for

• A builder. Your happy place is on the tools, building great software that is both easy to read and extendable
• A writer. You can communicate ideas effectively through writing to fit in with our bias for async-first working and public-first transparency
• A designer. You think through solutions before building, have a customer-first mindset, and design with future needs in mind
• A leader. You’ve got experience promoting engineering best practices within your team, championing testable code, and working with others to set standards across the rest of the engineering department
• An owner. If you build it, you care deeply about how it runs for users too
• A mentor. You’ve got experience supporting more junior team members in ways that encourage learning and independent problem-solving
• A proactive mentality where you can steer yourself through an ambiguous problem, grab help when you need it, and come up with something great
• Must be based in New Zealand

📚 Our Tech Stack

This is our core tech stack, knowledge of these or similar is preferred:

• Node.js, DynamoDB, Redis, Jest, CucumberJS
• Vue.js, Tailwind CSS, Astro, Testing Library, Cypress
• AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, OpenTelemetry
• Git, Github, Slack, Notion, Figma

👋 Our Interview Process

One of our core values is being open and transparent - No hidden surprises!

1. First stage interview - a 1 hour video call where we’ll talk to you about your background and experience
2. Second stage - a take-home coding task that should take between 2-4 hours to complete
3. Third stage - a 1 hour video call where we will review your coding task together, discuss your design decisions and any trade-offs you made
4. Final stage - a 30 min catch up with our CEO and CTO

We look after our people at Centrapay - a key focus is our culture and ensuring we create a positive and healthy work environment. We continuously look at ways to make improvements and regularly ask for employee feedback and input.

🏄 Your key benefits

• We offer flexible working and aim to look after our people. We understand you have commitments outside of work - which could be picking up the kids from school, going to the gym at lunch or just making sure you get to go for a bike ride early morning
• A Macbook Pro
• Great CBD location at City Works Depot
• We have a down-to-earth, open culture that values inclusion
• Our Working Holiday scheme allows you to work while travelling overseas
• In-person and online social activities to keep you connected
• Training and development opportunities
• A day off to celebrate your birthday
• Sick leave from day one
• Free health insurance via Southern Cross
• Additional parental leave entitlements
• Contribution to help set up your home office

For more information on Centrapay please visit https://centrapay.com/