Senior Software Engineer

Propellerhead is a leading software services company that designs, delivers, and maintains large-scale, custom-built digital platforms across a range of technologies. We place emphasis on producing technology which is meaningful, has value, and can make a difference in the world. We foster long lasting and trusting relationships with all our clients, and we have worked with a diverse range of commercial, non-profit, and government organisations over our 20 years in the market.

How We Build Software:

We build software by structuring solutions in a product-centric manner and focusing on continuously delivering improvements from a backlog of features. These features are taken from real stakeholder needs linked to clear objectives. As a result, our digital platforms are a mixture of custom components and external services which produce a powerful and engaging experience when combined.

Propellerhead operates a hybrid working model (enjoy working from our office and/or from your own home). This role is Auckland based, with office attendance required on our team in-person collaboration days.

The Role:

Propellerhead is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join a new service delivery team. You will be designing and building interesting and challenging software products for our customers. Your team will consist of like-minded software craftspeople and will operate with a degree of autonomy seldom experienced in other organisations. We are looking for someone who will enthusiastically help our customers move into the next generation of the internet (Web3), with a particular emphasis on edge computing and self-sovereignty of data and identity. Your team will be active in research-and-development, building proof-of-concept software and evolving that to high-quality, enterprise-grade solutions.

• Investigating, together with your team, the set of technologies that would best serve the solution you are designing and building.
• Active participation in all aspects of software solution design, including code structure, deployment architecture, DevOps, automated testing and integration of third party systems.
• Collaborating with client stakeholders and with fellow Propellerhead Developers, Analysts, and Solution Architects, to create a shared understanding of the solution design and roadmap delivery in line with agreed budgets.
• Constructing software at every layer of the stack, from user interfaces, back end services, data repositories, interoperability, infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, automated testing and system monitoring.
• Providing second-line support of the systems you build and actively seeking ways to keep your software secure, performant and reliable.
• Passing on your learning of new technologies or techniques to the broader organisation as part of our knowledge sharing programme.

• High proficiency in at least one enterprise-quality programming language and its ecosystem. For example, C# .NET or Java and Spring.
• Some experience with a lower-level language for application or systems development such as Rust (preferable) or C++. 
• Experience in TypeScript and React or similar front-end frameworks, and a well-developed understanding of web application development.
• Hands-on experience deploying to Azure and/or AWS, including participation in building CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure scripting framework is desirable.
• Demonstrable experience in software design for distributed and asynchronous architecture. In particular, you will need to show examples of projects using microservices and messaging where you have been a key contributor to the design and construction.
• Experience using techniques such as user stories to express the work to be done as business outcomes.
• You can produce clear and concise design documents.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills to translate between requirements and technical tasks.

Benefits: 

- Be part of an innovative world-class team, with a culture of learning and collaboration.

- Contribute to interesting, diverse, and commercially minded work for well-respected clients.

- Opportunity for professional growth and development.

- Fortnightly knowledge sharing sessions, with lunch.

- Competitive salary. Employee Share Purchase Scheme offering.

- This role is Auckland based, some office attendance is required. Work within our beautifully designed office and/or from home (hybrid working model).

- Propellerhead is an equal opportunity workplace which is free from discrimination.

Cover Letter:

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