Senior Full-Stack Engineer for AI-Powered Insights

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and ESOP

Hybrid working autonomy

Paid parental leave and wellbeing

ThinkFest offsite and team events

Job summary

Ideally is reimagining market research by embedding real human insight into every creative and commercial decision. Our AI-led platform delivers rapid, robust consumer feedback to marketers and insights teams, turning gut feel into customer-led decisions.

With 250+ clients in 30+ countries, we’re growing across APAC and US from our Auckland base. You’ll join a small, high-calibre Product Engineering team to design, build and ship features across the full stack, including React/TypeScript front

Qualifications

• Experience with C#/.NET and React in full-stack development.
• Experience taking software from problem through to production, not just a defined piece of work.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) is valuable.
• Foundations in relational databases, SQL, automated testing, CI/CD, observability and software security.
• Experience with AI-enabled development tools and LLM APIs is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features across the full stack, from frontend to backend.
• Own problems end to end with Product, Design and Research.
• Develop and improve LLM-powered features and pipelines, evaluating approaches on quality, latency and cost.
• Keep the platform healthy with clean, maintainable code, testing, CI/CD and security.
• Improve tools and ways of working as the product scales.

Skills

Full-stack development

C#/.NET

React

TypeScript

Cloud infrastructure

Relational databases

SQL

Automated testing

CI/CD

Observability

Software security

AI-enabled development tools

LLM APIs

Prompting

Retrieval

Evaluation

Clear communication

Tools

Claude Code

AWS

Job description

Ideally is reimagining market research by embedding real human insight into every creative and commercial decision. Our AI-led platform delivers rapid, robust consumer feedback to marketers and insights teams, turning gut feel into customer-led decisions.

With 250+ clients in 30+ countries, we’re growing across APAC and US from our Auckland base. You’ll join a small, high-calibre Product Engineering team to design, build and ship features across the full stack, including React/TypeScript front