Software Engineer - Dashboards

Phocas Software; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% PD time

Sunny Sydenham office

Health insurance

Life insurance

TPD and income protection

Extra paid parental leave

Job summary

Phocas Software is seeking an engineer to strengthen our Dashboards experience in Christchurch. You’ll build fast, clear front-end features for dashboards, collaborate with design and data teams, and explore AI-powered enhancements to help customers act on their data with confidence.

You’ll apply strong React and TypeScript skills, work with data visualisation, and bring a systems-thinking mindset to deliver elegant, scalable solutions that customers rely on every morning.

Qualifications

• Strong front-end skills, ideally React and TypeScript.
• Experience working with data, ideally building things that visualise it.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI, both as a tool you use to write code and as something you want to build into products.
• A systems thinker's mindset: you see the whole picture, not just the ticket in front of you.
• Self-starter energy: you spot the problem and start figuring out how to solve it.
• Confidence to back your ideas, and curiosity to keep questioning them.
• A finance or BI background is a genuine plus, but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve front-end features for our dashboards product, working closely with design and data teams.
• Use AI tools day to day to move faster, and help shape how AI-powered features show up in the product itself.
• Turn open-ended problems, like how best to visualise a given dataset, into elegant, working solutions.
• Think in systems: understand how a small change in one part of the product ripples through the rest.
• Work directly with customers to understand what actually helps them make decisions.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Data viz

AI enthusiasm

Systems thinking

Self-starter

Communication

Job description

The best dashboard is the one nobody has to think twice about. That's harder to build than it sounds.

At Phocas, we're building what's next in financial planning and analytics: products that don't just show businesses their data, but help them act on it with confidence. That starts with really understanding our customers: their businesses, their numbers, and the problems they're actually trying to solve. We care deeply about shipping things that make a real difference to our customers.

Our Dashboards product is often the first thing our customers open every morning. It turns rows of numbers into something people can understand at a glance, and it needs to be fast, clear, and genuinely useful, not just pretty. We're looking for an engineer who wants to make that experience even better.

What you’ll do

• Build and improve front-end features for our dashboards product, working closely with design and data teams.
• Use AI tools day to day to move faster, and help shape how AI-powered features show up in the product itself.
• Turn open-ended problems, like how best to visualise a given dataset, into elegant, working solutions.
• Think in systems: understand how a small change in one part of the product ripples through the rest.
• Work directly with customers to understand what actually helps them make decisions.

What you’ll bring

• Strong front-end skills, ideally React and TypeScript.
• Experience working with data, ideally building things that visualise it.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI, both as a tool you use to write code and as something you want to build into products.
• A systems thinker's mindset: you see the whole picture, not just the ticket in front of you.
• Self-starter energy: you spot the problem and start figuring out how to solve it.
• Confidence to back your ideas, and curiosity to keep questioning them.
• A finance or BI background is a genuine plus, but not essential.

Why work at Phocas?

• The people: ask anyone at Phocas what they love most about working here, and you'll get the same answer every time.
• 10% PD time: one day a fortnight dedicated to learning and development.
• Sunny Sydenham office: spacious, central, with parking for cars, bikes, and scooters.
• Benefits: Southern Cross health insurance, life, TPD and income protection, extra paid parental leave, and more.

Phocas is an Accredited Employer and we support international talent, but due to current visa settings and processing times, we can only consider applicants with current New Zealand working rights.

Phocas Software is a profitable, growing SaaS company with a loyal customer base and a category-leading product. With a clear path toward scaling from $70M to $250M and a reimagined GTM structure, this is a prime moment to join and shape the future of how we deliver value to customers.

We know that fun is different for everyone. So, if you want to try out innovative approaches to sales, lead a project, save the planet, or spend more time with your favourite people outside work, you’ll have our full support.

As long as you’re doing what brings you joy, the rest falls into place. Think less stress, higher performance, more energy and all-round nicer human. Your friends and family will be delighted.