Senior Software Engineer

About the Organisation

Our client is a global SaaS organisation undergoing a significant technology evolution. With a strong focus on cloud platforms, intelligent automation, and AI-driven product development, they are investing heavily in modern engineering capabilities to accelerate innovation and deliver greater value to customers.

Rather than simply adopting AI tools, the organisation is embedding AI into its products, platforms, and engineering practices. They are looking for engineers who can help lead that journey and contribute practical expertise in modern AI development.

About the Role

Multiple positions for Senior Software Engineers to join a high-performing engineering team delivering large-scale cloud applications and next-generation intelligent software solutions.

While strong full-stack engineering capability remains at the core of this role, the organisation is particularly interested in individuals who have embraced modern AI development practices and can contribute to the design, development, and integration of AI-powered capabilities across their products.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop and maintain scalable cloud-native applications and services

Contribute to architecture decisions and long-term platform strategy

Develop modern frontend and backend solutions using contemporary engineering practices

Build and integrate APIs, event-driven services, and distributed systems

Drive engineering excellence through testing automation, code reviews, and CI/CD practices

Contribute to AI-enabled product capabilities, intelligent automation, and emerging technology initiatives

Mentor engineers and help foster a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence

Identify opportunities to improve performance, scalability, reliability, and developer experience

Skills & Experience

Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer, or similar position

Strong experience with React, TypeScript, and modern web application development

Backend development experience using technologies such as Go, TypeScript, Java, C#, or similar

Demonstrated experience building and scaling SaaS products within cloud environments

Strong knowledge of AWS and modern cloud architecture principles

Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architecture

Expertise in software design, engineering best practices, and solution architecture

Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated testing

A proactive interest in AI-driven software development and emerging technologies

Comfortable evaluating, piloting, and implementing new technologies that create business value

Highly Regarded

Experience developing AI-powered applications within production environments

Experience building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines and LLM-enabled solutions

Exposure to vector databases, embeddings, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration frameworks

Experience with machine learning and AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar

Knowledge of MLOps practices, model deployment, monitoring, and operationalisation

Experience integrating OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure AI, AWS AI, or equivalent services into commercial products

Demonstrated ability to help teams adopt AI technologies in a practical, scalable, and commercially relevant way

Experience in high-volume payments or message queue architectures

Benefits

Attractive annual incentive

Hybrid working environment (3 days in the office 2 WFH)

* Fully subsidised Health Insurance

How to Apply Apply now with your CV and cover letter.

We will prioritise candidates already eligible to work in New Zealand. However, the client will sponsor ideal candidates who are already in New Zealand or plan to move to New Zealand at their own cost.