Backend Software Engineer

**ABOUT THE COMPANY:**This values-driven business has a strong brand presence in its market and has won awards for its culture and working environment.  Your career development and growth will be genuinely supported, and a generous salary and benefits package is offered.

**ABOUT THE ROLE:**This is a chance to play a key role in the Back End Modernisation team, as the business moves from PHP to .NET

You will work within the engineering team to deliver reliable, secure, maintainable, and high-quality software across the modern cloud environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
These will include, but not be limited to:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software that supports their products, customers, and internal systems.
• Build software that is secure, reliable, maintainable, scalable, and appropriate for the problem being solved.
• Analyse requirements and contribute to technical approaches, solution design, and implementation.
• Contribute to APIs, applications, services, integrations, and other software components across the technology stack.
• Write clear, maintainable, and well-tested code aligned with their engineering standards and practices.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute constructively to improving code quality and engineering practices.
• Investigate and resolve software defects and technical issues, including production issues where required.
• Contribute to technical documentation, architecture documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Consider existing systems, technical debt, and longer-term maintainability when developing solutions.

ABOUT YOU:

• Strong experience with C# and .NET, APIs and integrations; relational databases and data modelling; distributed systems, messaging, caching, and search.
• A good understanding of software engineering principles and practices, including writing maintainable and testable software.
• Experience with version control, collaborative development workflows, and automated testing practices.
• An understanding of APIs, data, and how modern applications and services interact.
• Exposure to cloud-based software environments, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices.
• Awareness of software security, reliability, observability, and operational considerations.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with curiosity, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous learning
• Experience using, or a demonstrated willingness to develop capability with, AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or similar
• An understanding of the strengths, limitations, security and privacy considerations, and risks of AI-generated code and engineering outputs.
• Ability to apply sound engineering judgement

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Can be fully remote from anywhere in NZ, although Auckland based is preferred
• Fully subsidised health insurance
• Very generous annual leave allowance - 6 weeks a year
• Generous training budget
• Awesome culture and working environment - with the awards to prove it!

WHAT'S NEXT?
Don't delay and miss out on this awesome opportunity.  Apply today, or for more information, contact Lisa on [021 029 81422](tel:021 029 81422)