Full-Stack Engineer, FinTech Payroll — Hybrid

Datacom; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work

Parental leave

Employee Assistance

Learning opportunities

Future skills training

Recognition programs

Discounts

Meaningful work

Job summary

Datacom’s Smartly unit seeks a capable Full Stack Engineer to help deliver the Smartly Payroll SaaS. The role emphasizes strong front-end and back-end collaboration, modern tech usage, and mentoring junior engineers.

You’ll contribute to scalable, secure, and robust payroll solutions while embracing agile practices and AI-assisted development. We value practical problem-solving, clear communication, and a passion for building high-quality software in a hybrid New Zealand environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years' experience across multiple SDLC phases.
• Recent C# .NET experience with at least 2 years.
• Experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, React, or ASP.NET Razor.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, SOLID principles, and object-oriented programming.
• Knowledge of software configuration management using Git.
• Familiarity with service-oriented frameworks.
• Ability to implement features, unit tests, and fix complex bugs.
• Excellent communication skills, with a focus on cohesive teams.
• Public cloud exposure (Azure) is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day delivery of assigned work, clarifying feature ambiguity, managing tasks, supporting releases, and verifying production outcomes.
• Contribute to team-owned delivery by inputting effort, raising risks or blockers early, communicating progress clearly, and helping the team deliver work predictably.
• Contribute to team-owned quality through testing, code review, safe change practices, and attention to correctness, maintainability, security, and performance.
• Use modern tooling, automation, and AI-assisted development to improve delivery efficiency, feedback loops, and code quality while remaining accountable for the output.
• Support less experienced engineers through collaboration, review feedback, and strong day-to-day engineering practice.

Skills

SDLC experience

C# & .NET

Frontend tech

React

SOLID & OO

Git

SOA

Unit testing

Communication

Problem solving

Azure

Tools

Azure

Job description

Datacom’s Smartly unit seeks a capable Full Stack Engineer to help deliver the Smartly Payroll SaaS. The role emphasizes strong front-end and back-end collaboration, modern tech usage, and mentoring junior engineers.

You’ll contribute to scalable, secure, and robust payroll solutions while embracing agile practices and AI-assisted development. We value practical problem-solving, clear communication, and a passion for building high-quality software in a hybrid New Zealand environment.