Infrastructure Engineer — Chaos Testing & Resilient FinTech

Centrapay; Christchurch; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

City Works Depot office (Auckland area

6 weeks annual leave

MacBook Pro

Training and development

Sick leave from day one

Free health insurance

Free life insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Centrapay is building a next-generation payments platform and Payap app. You will stress-test systems, implement an AI Harness across engineering, and design robust disaster recovery so money keeps moving even during regional failures.

You will work across the stack—backend, frontend, and infrastructure—owning features end-to-end, and shipping daily in a fast-paced fintech environment with flexible working options.

Qualifications

• 3+ years shipping real code to users
• Clear writing in async-first environment
• Comfortable with ambiguity and talking to users
• Experience with modern cloud and microservice stacks is valued

Responsibilities

• Stress-test systems and perform chaos engineering
• Roll out AI Harness across engineering workflows
• Build disaster recovery with regional failover across environments
• Ship features end-to-end and own production impact
• Collaborate across backend, frontend, and infra teams

Skills

Shipping real code

Clear writing

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Github Copilot

Node.js

DynamoDB

Redis

Vitest

Vue.js

Tailwind CSS

Astro

Testing Library

Playwright

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Honeycomb

OpenTelemetry

Claude

Github

Slack

Notion

Figma

Job description

Centrapay is building a next-generation payments platform and Payap app. You will stress-test systems, implement an AI Harness across engineering, and design robust disaster recovery so money keeps moving even during regional failures.

You will work across the stack—backend, frontend, and infrastructure—owning features end-to-end, and shipping daily in a fast-paced fintech environment with flexible working options.