Senior Software Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

3 of 9 engineers are principals

Ownership of long-running missions

Office in Auckland Victoria Park

$50 per week transport allowance

Learning & Development budget $2,000

Birthday leave

Friday lunches and beer on tap

South African braai master

Self-funded, cash-generative business

Job summary

Devoli in Auckland is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help architect and build the platform that will power the business, blending Go/Python on the backend with Next.js/TypeScript on the frontend.

You will own meaningful parts of the system, help drive distributed architecture, and contribute to agentic AI initiatives across teams in a hybrid work environment. The role requires AWS, PostgreSQL and MongoDB expertise and a passion for scalable, service-oriented design.

Qualifications

• Experience building platform-scale software in a B2B context.
• Strong background in distributed architectures and cloud services.
• Familiarity with agentic AI tooling and workflow concepts.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to platform-wide architecture and design efforts.
• Own components across backend and frontend as part of a distributed team.
• Help integrate agentic AI capabilities into the product stack.
• Collaborate across product, design and operations to deliver scalable services.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

Next.js

AWS

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Software architecture

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems

Agentic AI tooling

Tools

Next.js

AWS

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Go

Python

Job description

Senior Software Engineer | Devoli | Auckland (Hybrid)

Devoli is not your typical tech business. It started as a telco, grew into one of New Zealand’s most consistently high-growth companies, and is now in the middle of something genuinely interesting: transforming into a software platform business, using the revenue and stability it has already built to fund an ambitious technical future.

The software team is not maintaining a product on the side. They are building the platform that will eventually become the entire business.

What you will bring

• Experience with at least part of the stack: Python, TypeScript, Go, Next.js, AWS, Postgres, MongoDB
• Solid grasp of software architecture and design, including object orientation, event-driven architecture, and distributed service design
• Experience working within and helping define distributed architectures where boundaries are still being established
• AWS production experience, including owning and running what you build
• Background in a B2B software product organisation, not just internal development
• Genuine engagement with agentic AI tooling beyond basic code generation, someone who thinks about agents, context, workflows, and parallelism and has found ways to put that into practice

What you will be working on

The platform spans several large and genuinely complex domains: CPQ and pricing systems, end-user billing and subscription management, a new authentication and authorisation framework, a redesigned customer portal, and a distributed service architecture being actively built out from a legacy PHP monolith.

The go-forward stack is Go and Python on the backend, Next.js and TypeScript on the frontend, with AWS, Postgres, and MongoDB rounding things out. The architecture direction is distributed and service-oriented, with bounded contexts being defined as the platform grows. You will not be handed a map. You will help draw it.

On top of the core platform work, the team is actively investing in how agentic AI changes the way software is built, at both an individual and team level. Some engineers are already orchestrating small teams of agents to multiply their output. Others are finding their rhythm. The goal is to keep pushing that capability further across the entire development process, and new engineers are expected to bring their own perspective to it.

What They're Looking For

• Someone with genuine agentic AI depth who can help the team level up how they work, beyond individual productivity into team-wide workflows
• Someone focused on building agentic capabilities into the product itself, including platforms that allow external agents to consume Devoli's services
• Someone with strong domain experience in telco, ERP, billing, subscription management, logistics, or complex B2B integration environments

You'll have the ability to own a long-running mission area, operate without a perfectly defined brief, and contribute meaningfully to the platform strategy.

What Devoli offers

• A technically senior team: 3 of the current 9 engineers are principals
• Real ownership of long-running missions, not just two-week stories
• An open, social office environment in a converted historic building in Victoria Park, Auckland
• $50 per week public transport allowance
• Annual Learning & Development budget of $2,000 fully self-directed
• Birthday leave
• Friday shared lunches, beer on tap, and a South African braai master who takes the barbecue seriously
• A self-funded, cash-generative business with strong board backing and no external funding risk

Hours of Work

This is a full-time permanent role with a minimum guaranteed 40 hours per week.

The kind of person who thrives here

Curious by default. Comfortable with ambiguity. Someone who wants to understand the problem, not just execute the task. Someone who brings strong opinions but holds them loosely, listens well, and cares about the best idea winning rather than being right. Someone who enjoys being around people and engages across the business, not just within their immediate team.

Scale-up and B2B product backgrounds work well. If you are used to owning things end to end, navigating a complex and evolving codebase, and working in an environment where not everything is written down, you will feel at home.