Intermediate Engineer

Straker Ltd; Upper Harbour; On-site; NZD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A New Zealand AI solutions company is looking for a Software Engineer skilled in backend and frontend technologies. You will build innovative features and scalable applications, optimize data processing, and collaborate with your team. Ideal candidates will have 2-3 years of experience and a degree in Computer Science. Flexible work options available.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Work from home options

Inclusive culture

Qualifications

• Minimum 2-3 years of experience.
• Proficiency in Java and the JVM.
• Demonstrated experience building enterprise systems that scale.
• Experience writing tests throughout the development process.

Responsibilities

• Build innovative AI features and experiences.
• Design and build scalable web applications.
• Optimize the performance of data processing pipelines.
• Collaborate with colleagues on design and architecture.

Skills

Backend technologies like Python

PHP

Node.js

Typescript

Frontend technologies like Vue.js

SQL

NoSQL databases

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Tools

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Overview

Would you like to join a New Zealand founded AI focused company, being mentored by top talent to work on cutting-edge technologies and being supported to bring your innovative ideas and whole self to your role? Join us to have the opportunity to do all of this from light and bright offices on Auckland’s North Shore - right across the road from Constellation Bus station and motorway ramps for easy commute.

We offer a flexible working environment with our own in house Work Your Way Policy to enable you to achieve your best work/life balance including work from home options for a few days each week.

Our people are at the heart of all we do and our culture is unconditionally inclusive at Straker. We recruit the most talented individuals to join us on our journey – regardless of their race, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, disability status. By embracing and respecting our differences, and harnessing the uniqueness that we each bring to our role - we have created an incredible global team of Rebels to fight the battle on behalf of our customers.

Founded in New Zealand, Straker offers AI based multilingual solutions to our customers. We are ranked in the top 60 of more than 27,000 global vendors. We are a dynamic AI centric company that offers high quality and easy to manage multilingual solutions to more than 50,000 customers around the world and in more than 80 languages. We have a team of 170 employees globally and are now looking to complement our team further. We believe in identifying talent and supporting people to grow with us.

This role will be a part of our Engineering team - which is a hive of innovative activity delivering world-class tech solutions. We solve hard problems that others can’t, and we will challenge and stretch you to reach your career goals.

If you are skilled in backend technologies like Python, PHP, Node.js, Typescript, Frontend technologies like Vue.js, Nuxt.js, React.js, Next.js, Angular, SQL and NoSQL databases or other related technologies, we want to talk to you!

Responsibilities

Things you will get to do:

• Build innovative AI features and experiences utilising cutting-edge models such as GPT and Gemini.
• Build high-throughput and low-latency microservices and integrations
• Take product ideas from ideation to implementation
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Develop systems that are highly scalable but easy to maintain

Responsibilities:

• Take product ideas from ideation to implementation
• Design and build scalable, high-volume web applications focused on functionality
• Optimize the performance of our data ingestion and data processing pipelines
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Assist in the growth and mentoring of your team
• Develop systems that are highly scalable, but easy to maintain
• Collaborate with colleagues on design and architecture
• Build high-throughput and low latency microservices

Qualifications

To be successful you will need:

• Minimum 2 – 3 year’s experience
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Proficiency in Java and the JVM
• Demonstrated experience building enterprise systems that scale
• Extensive experience with Linux
• Experience with relational (eg. PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. Cassandra) databases, SQL proficiency
• Experience with AI Coding Agents like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.
• Experience writing tests throughout the development process
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, PHP, Ruby)
• Experience building scalable RESTful API’s
• Experience with decentralized systems and microservice architecture
• Excellent communication skills
• Lots of enthusiasm and energy
• A hunger to learn and grow in the field of web and applications
• Must have full NZ working rights

We will be moving quickly on our hiring process - so don't delay - please apply NOW!