Senior Engineering Lead (Risk Detection)

JobSpace; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Auror in New Zealand seeks a Senior Engineering Lead (Risk Detection) to steer one of our core product areas. You’ll provide technical and people leadership for Risk Detection capabilities, including Auror Subject Recognition (ASR), helping retailers detect and respond to crime in real time.

You'll evolve ASR across enrollment, in-store detections, and actionable alerts, and set the architectural direction for scalable, privacy‑aware systems that support future growth and regional expansion.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering across Auror's Risk Detection domain, setting a clear technical direction across our detection platforms, including ASR, while ensuring teams remain aligned around shared priorities and customer outcomes.
• Run structured sprint rituals, including stand ups, retrospectives and planning, keeping the team focused on delivering meaningful outcomes.

Job description

At Auror, we're empowering the retail industry to reduce theft and Organised Retail Crime, a $150 Billion problem globally. It's high volume crime that's increasingly organised in nature and is putting people, retailers, and communities at risk every day. Our current mission is to reduce violent retail crime by 50% in 5 years.

Founded in New Zealand 13 years ago, we're working with some of the best and largest retailers in the world across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.

Auror is connecting people and intelligence to reduce crime. We're using technology for good.

In partnership with our leading retail partners, we need people with the passion, determination, and innovation required to overcome one of the world's largest problems. If you're looking to make a difference with and for the people dedicated to stopping crime, for good, then we want you on our team.

We're also embracing the potential of AI to supercharge our impact—whether that's enhancing the way we detect trends, support our customers, or improve internal workflows. As a company, we're committed to responsibly incorporating AI into how we work and what we build, and we encourage all Aurors to be curious about how AI can elevate their work, regardless of role or function.

The Role

As Senior Engineering Lead (Risk Detection), you'll lead one of the engineering teams responsible for one of Auror's most strategically important product areas. You'll provide technical and people leadership across our Risk Detection capabilities, including Auror Subject Recognition (ASR), helping shape the technology that enables retailers to detect and respond to crime in real time.

A significant focus of the role will be evolving ASR, from enrolling Persons of Interest with recognition providers, to processing live detections in store, to delivering actionable alerts within seconds. More broadly, you'll help define the technical direction for Risk Detection, building resilient, scalable systems that support new regions, new detection capabilities, and continued product innovation.

Working at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and privacy conscious engineering, you'll ensure our platforms meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and responsible use of technology.

Success in this role means growing a high performing engineering team that ships with confidence and consistency, delivers innovative Risk Detection capabilities, and enables Auror to continue expanding its impact around the world.

What You'll Do

• Lead engineering across Auror's Risk Detection domain, setting a clear technical direction across our detection platforms, including ASR, while ensuring teams remain aligned around shared priorities and customer outcomes.
• Run structured sprint rituals, including stand ups, retrospectives and planning, keeping the team focused on delivering meaningful outcomes.

Raise the Bar on Technical Excellence

• Set clear engineering standards and drive pragmatic quality across systems where accuracy, latency and reliability directly impact customer trust.
• Guide architectural decisions that evolve Risk Detection into scalable, service oriented platforms that support future growth without unnecessary complexity.

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