Principal Software Engineer

We are one of New Zealand's most popular websites with over four million members and more than 650,000 Kiwis visiting our site every day.

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Skills of particular interest include solution architecture, cloud-native, developer experience & platform engineering, integration (APIs and eventing), and continuous delivery. If you have a solid engineering background and want to contribute to setting and contributing to our architecture future, we'd love to hear from you.

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You'll have the best time working with us, and this is why:

‍#Flexible

Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance.

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#Wellness

Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way.#LeaveWe support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days wellness leave and 10 days sick leave from day 1.

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#Social

Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual company awards, celebrations and more.

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#Learning

Whether it's on the job, formal training, mentoring or something else, you'll grow with us from Day 1.

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We rely on your expertise to think strategically about the future of our technical systems, creating and executing a compelling roadmap of high-value pragmatic initiatives that allow us to efficiently deliver customer value both in the short and long term and ensure the health of our technology.

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Here's what you can expect from the role:

‍*Be accountable for technology outcomes of your delegated product areas.

*Maintain and execute a technology roadmap for your delegated product areas.

*The health of the technology systems will be under your remit, including being secure, performant, reliable, maintainable, supportable, observable, consistent, comprehensible, idiomatic, and proven, in line with our engineering best practices.

*Convincingly evangelise principled engineering techniques to deliver high-value products.

*Encourage engineering excellence of the people you work with.

*Help the technical leadership team to draft the 3-5 year engineers strategy.

*Contribute to the technical growth and coaching of other engineers in the team.

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Here's what you will bring to the role:
*More than 12 years of experience in software development. With minimum of 5 years experience in cloud, and software architecture

*Commercially savvy, able to justify engineering projects in financial terms and business case technology projects with ROI projections

*Highly skilled in technical product management, understanding value assessment, prioritisation, and how to bring teams along on the journey with you

*An expert of commercial software product development, having had deep experience with a wide variety of technologies, architectures and platforms with a wide variety of people

*A great mentor and coach able to build fantastic relationships with everyone, helping grow our company at every opportunity

*Strategic in your thinking, looking three years ahead to understand and convincingly justify what we need to be doing today

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We're about connecting Kiwis to create the life they want. Whether it's the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or growing their business, or the smaller things, like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff. Our vision is to be the place where Kiwi's look first.

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you.

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