AI Led Software Engineer

Remote Freelance; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 110.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

NZ remote option

Bay of Plenty on-site option

Good salary and benefits

Zusammenfassung

Remote Freelance is seeking a capable AI-focused software delivery lead to direct, review and own software built with AI within a small, high-performing NZ-based team. You’ll collaborate with engineers, testers, BAs and product owners on production AI-enabled systems.

You will frame problems, specify work precisely for agents, ensure engineering fundamentals are upheld, and explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders while driving value through responsible AI delivery.

Qualifikationen

• Demonstrated experience directing AI coding tools on production work.
• Evidence of writing specifications or requirements that other people, or agents, built from.
• Three or more years developing and supporting software in production use.
• Relational database experience with MSSQL or PostgreSQL, including schema design and query tuning.
• Daily use of Git, and practical experience with CI/CD pipelines.

Aufgaben

• Direct AI coding tools on production work and assess outputs.
• Frame problems and specify work precisely for agents to build.
• Work with engineers, testers, BAs and product owners in a small delivery team.
• Uphold strong engineering fundamentals and lifecycle processes; explain technical decisions to non-technical staff.

Kenntnisse

AI tooling experience

Software delivery leadership

Git & CI/CD

Automated testing

Explain technical decisions

Tools

MSSQL

PostgreSQL

CI/CD pipelines

Jobbeschreibung

The technology arm of a group of successful companies, operating across New Zealand. This is a small but high performing team that operates with direct feedback and low ceremony. You'll get to interact with passionate and talented developers, testers, product owners, subject matter experts and stakeholders across this awesome organisation. They work to a set of shared values and behaviours around integrity, open feedback and treating each other with respect.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Within this role you will direct, review and take responsibility for software built with AI. The role sits within the in-house team responsible for IT operations, custom software development, business analysis and digital innovation.

Reporting to the Development Manager, you'll work in a small delivery team alongside engineers, testers, business analysts and product owners.Most implementation is carried out by AI agents. The value of this role is in framing the problem, holding an accurate model of the system, specifying work precisely enough to be built, deciding when work is ready to build, and proving the result is correct.

This organisation delivers software through a defined lifecycle and each phase has a purpose, arequired output, and a control point that only a person can clear. Agents carry out work within a phase but movement between phases is a human decision. Strong engineering fundamentalsremain essential for this role; they are the basis on which AI output is judged, and they are what the role relies on when the tooling is wrong.

ABOUT YOU:

Demonstrated experience directing AI coding tools on production work, with examples of output accepted, amended or rejected, and the reasoning applied.

Evidence of writing specifications or requirements that other people, or agents, built from.

Three or more years developing and supporting software in production use.

Relational database experience with MSSQL or PostgreSQL, including schema design and query tuning.

Daily use of Git, and practical experience with CI/CD pipelines.

Automated testing experience, including tests written and maintained by the applicant.

Able to explain technical decisions, and the limits of AI-produced work, to non-technical staff.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

Work for a business that empowers their employees

Great working environment in the sunny Bay of Plenty, or NZ remote for the right person

Work with passionate and talented colleagues and exceptional leadership in a team with very low staff turnover

Good salary and benefits package

PLEASE NOTE, THAT ALTHOUGH THIS ROLE CAN BE PERFORMED REMOTELY FOR THE RIGHT PERSON, YOU MUST BE BASED IN NZ WITH VALID WORKING RIGHTS TO BE CONSIDERED