Senior Staff Software Engineer

About this role

## Hi there! Thanks for stopping by

Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!

We're looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our team in Auckland. In addition to building reliable systems and easy-to-use interfaces with clean, well-tested code, you will also collaborate closely with peers in technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture decisions, helping to elevate our engineering culture and set a high bar for quality and scalability.

To thrive in this role, you'll bring strong technical knowledge, a quick ability to learn new technologies, and sharp problem-solving skills. You'll be an excellent communicator who works well with stakeholders, collaborates effectively across teams, and supports others through mentorship.

### What you'll be doing:

• **30% - Building stuff:** This means coding, code reviews, fixing bugs (i.e. tackling the hard debugging), peer programming, incident response, and reverse-engineering tasks, etc.
• **30% - Planning/architecture:** This means estimating, collaborating with products, establishing MVP
• **30% - Learning and teaching:** This means things like chapter reviews, research and meetups, coaching and mentoring developers to "level up" and become more proficient over time
• **10% - Enabling:** This means things like working on shared libraries, contributing to open source content, defining, documenting and evolving best practices for development in their team's area of focus

And a little bit of…

• Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organisational-wide objectives even if this means doing things that aren't strictly within the scope of your role.

### What you need to bring:

We're looking for a candidate who has experience with the following:

• Principal, Staff or tech lead level of experience as a Software Engineer, in fullstack, frontend or backend capacity, including both successes and failures ("s...