Snr Full Stack Developer - Search

At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwi 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. At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwi look first.

As part of our Platforms group, you'll join the Search team, working alongside engineering and product teams to bring product enhancements and new products to life for our customers. Over this 12-month fixed term, you'll draw on backend, search engine and distributed systems experience to keep the systems other teams depend on well run, well understood and simple to operate.

Here is what you can expect from this role:

Take technical ownership of projects within the Search team, from design and estimation through to planning the work

Write well-tested code, then release and monitor what you ship in production

Coach and mentor junior engineers, and peer review code from other developers

Document as you go, so others can maintain and build on your work

Spot opportunities to improve our processes, practices, code base and technical design

Explore how new, innovative technologies can solve current business problems

What you will bring to our team:

Production experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch or another document-driven search engine

5+ years in similar development roles, including strong backend experience with .NET (C#)

Production experience with Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka or similar, plus SQL and cloud with Terraform

Hands-on experience developing with AI tools, and a natural curiosity to weave them into your everyday work

You've designed and run production systems with good alerting, and led incident response

You've run large data migrations or repairs safely, using dry runs, checks and rollback plans

You've shipped changes to systems other teams rely on, and managed the impact on those teams

You've worked in legacy code or databases with little documentation, and documented what you learned

You've mentored engineers and led technical work across teams

You make design decisions based on cost, capacity and simplicity, with sound judgement on distributed systems: eventual consistency, back-pressure, capacity and cost

* You explain technical concepts clearly, collaborate well, take ideas on board and think critically, adapting your approach to the situation

You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:

#AI and Tech: We live and breathe AI in our daily tasks. We value curiosity and an open mind towards new tech, offering dedicated AI skilling to help you grow and thrive in a fast-changing landscape. #Flexibility: Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a utilities allowance. We value team connection and come together in person on Monday and at least one other day a week. #Wellness: Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way.

#Leave: We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days of wellness leave each year and 10 days of sick leave from day 1.

#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 Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more.

#Learning: Whether it's on the job, formal training, or mentoring, you'll grow with us from Day 1. We're big on internal mobility and look to our own talent first for new opportunities.

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 so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the "Why".

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.