AI-Driven Software Engineer - Frontend & AI Features

Serko; Auckland; On-site; NZD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

KiwiSaver and life insurance

Health & Wellbeing benefits

Learning & development budget

Job summary

Serko is building a frictionless, AI-powered business travel marketplace in New Zealand. Join a global technologist team delivering web apps, BFFs, and orchestration services that connect our platform to customers.

You will shape the application experience layer with a focus on accessibility, performance, and reliability, shipping small, high-impact features and collaborating across Product, Design, and Engineering.

Qualifications

• Solid React/Next.js and TypeScript, and customer-facing features shipped to production.
• Working experience building APIs in Python or another backend language.
• Accessibility fundamentals, including semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, colour contrast and ARIA.
• Plans and executes work effectively, balancing speed and quality and adapting when priorities shift.
• Designs small, simple, maintainable solutions that avoid common security vulnerabilities.
• Contributes to team technical discussions and recognises dependencies in the team's system.
• Uses tests, metrics and dashboards to improve quality and reliability.
• Deliberately builds understanding of the code you ship, so judgement grows alongside agentic productivity.
• Supports peers through review and knowledge sharing, helps align the team around agreed approaches, and shows awareness of others' perspectives.
• Own your growth, setting goals, seeking feedback and keeping a record of your impact.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product, Design and Engineering, modelling strong engineering standards and teamwork.
• Understand the customer problem and success measure, and check that what you ship moves it.
• Help shape work into small, shippable slices with requirements anyone, or any agent, could check.
• Independently deliver well-scoped features to production, in line with our stack and design system.
• Implement designs faithfully and accessibly, including responsive behaviour and empty, error and loading states.
• Build and extend the BFF endpoints your features need in Python.
• Build AI and agent-powered features for customers using our established patterns for streaming, latency, errors and non-deterministic output.
• Work agentically by default, giving agents clear tasks and context, writing tests from requirements first and verifying output before it ships.
• Make reversible calls yourself; elevate anything that changes what ships or is costly to undo.
• Lead small projects with coaching, planning the work, running stand-ups and keeping stakeholders informed.
• Deploy and support what you build, including on-call and infrastructure changes with guidance, and instrument both system health and customer outcomes.
• Contribute ideas that improve how the team works and what it ships.

Skills

React/Next.js

TypeScript

API Development

Accessibility

Testing & Metrics

Tools

Python

Job description

Serko is building a frictionless, AI-powered business travel marketplace in New Zealand. Join a global technologist team delivering web apps, BFFs, and orchestration services that connect our platform to customers.

You will shape the application experience layer with a focus on accessibility, performance, and reliability, shipping small, high-impact features and collaborating across Product, Design, and Engineering.