Senior Backend Engineer – Azure, APIs & CI/CD

Southern Cross Health Insurance; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Health insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

Wellbeing programme

Flexi leave for study/volunteering

Annual volunteer day

Job summary

Southern Cross Health Insurance is expanding its Auckland-based engineering team to build a new digital health and wellbeing platform. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be one of the founding engineers in a brand-new squad, owning backend services, APIs and Azure infrastructure end-to-end.

You’ll work with the Squad Lead, Lead Engineer and Principal Engineer, shipping features frequently, and evolving the platform as membership grows.

Qualifications

• Solid experience building and running enterprise applications in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Hands-on experience with Azure and infrastructure as code, and comfort owning the infrastructure your services run on.
• Proficiency across tools like .NET/.NET Core, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, Git, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes and GitOps.
• Practical CI/CD experience – automated builds, reproducible artefacts and reliable release processes.
• Robust testing habits across unit, contract, API and component tests, with a practical approach to end-to-end.
• A solid grasp of secure coding and application security principles.
• Experience maintaining and improving products over time, not just delivering projects.
• Working knowledge of Agile and incremental delivery.
• Clear communication, especially when explaining options and trade-offs

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain back-end services, APIs and integrations that are secure, testable and maintainable.
• Own and evolve the squad’s Azure infrastructure using infrastructure as code
• Build and look after CI/CD pipelines that make releases safe, frequent and automated
• Break work into small, testable increments and help shape user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Write tests as part of the job – unit, contract, API and component – so quality is built in, not bolted on
• Monitor how things run in production, investigate issues and lead on fixing them properly
• Surface technical debt, risks and trade-offs early, and propose pragmatic ways forward
• Take part in peer reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing that lift the whole squad’s capability
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to work smarter, and share what you learn with the team

Skills

Azure

APIs

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Security

Agile

Communication

Tools

.NET/.NET Core

Node.js

JavaScript/TypeScript

Git

Azure DevOps

GitOps

Job description

Southern Cross Health Insurance is expanding its Auckland-based engineering team to build a new digital health and wellbeing platform. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be one of the founding engineers in a brand-new squad, owning backend services, APIs and Azure infrastructure end-to-end.

You’ll work with the Squad Lead, Lead Engineer and Principal Engineer, shipping features frequently, and evolving the platform as membership grows.