Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, Go & High-Performance

Ticketure; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Equity opportunity

KiwiSaver contribution

Home office stipend

Annual leave increases with tenure

Volunteer leave

Learning and development support

Flexible working arrangements

Opportunity to work abroad

Job summary

Ticketure is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize backend systems for the Ticketure product. You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design to translate requirements into robust, scalable solutions, while evolving engineering best practices.

This role reports to the Team Lead, Engineering (Ticketure). You’ll own large problems end-to-end, lead technical tasks, ensure quality standards, and mentor peers while working in a primarily remote setup with

Qualifications

• Four or more years of back-end development experience designing scalable systems.
• Hands-on production systems experience in Go.
• Production experience with MySQL and ElasticSearch.
• Experience deploying systems in a cloud environment, AWS preferred.
• Basic understanding of JavaScript and Vue.js.

Responsibilities

• Own and solve large problems from requirements to production-grade delivery.
• Lead technical tasks as a senior member of the team.
• Ensure work meets the team’s technical norms and quality standards.
• Collaborate with client-facing teams to meet expectations and triage issues.
• Support SLAs and be available for outages affecting ticket sales.
• Balance roadmap delivery with business continuity within the existing codebase.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices.

Skills

Go

MySQL

ElasticSearch

AWS

JavaScript

Vue.js

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Job description

Ticketure is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize backend systems for the Ticketure product. You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design to translate requirements into robust, scalable solutions, while evolving engineering best practices.

This role reports to the Team Lead, Engineering (Ticketure). You’ll own large problems end-to-end, lead technical tasks, ensure quality standards, and mentor peers while working in a primarily remote setup with