Software Engineer - Engineering Enablement

JobSpace; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parking for cars, bikes, and scooters

Hybrid work flexibility

Flexible hours

Health benefits: insurance where noted

Job summary

Phocas Software in Christchurch is seeking an Engineer for the Engineering Enablement team to accelerate all other teams. You will identify bottlenecks, enhance CI/CD pipelines, observability, and infrastructure-as-code, and consult across product, platform, security, and operations.

You will help teams adopt AI tools and craft clear documentation. The role requires 3-4 years of software development, cloud infrastructure experience (preferably AWS), and strong communication to translate pain

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of software development experience.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
• Strong communication and writing skills for documenting and consulting across teams.
• Ability to unblock engineers and improve how teams deliver software.

Responsibilities

• Identify and remove patterns slowing teams down: tooling, automation, documentation, or better processes.
• Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, and IaC.
• Consult across product teams to understand pain points and deliver high-leverage fixes.
• Help engineering teams adopt AI tools and explore AI-enabled workflows.
• Write clear documentation that gets used by others.
• Switch between problems and technologies with agility.

Skills

Software development

CI/CD

Observability

Infrastructure as code

AWS

Documentation

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Observability stack

Infrastructure as code

Job description

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Some engineers ship features. Others change how features get shipped. At Phocas, we've spent 20+ years building financial planning and analytics products that are powerful yet simple to use. We've grown to nearly 300 people across the globe, and our Product & Technology team in Christchurch is at the heart of it. We move fast, we learn from failures, and we're deliberate about how we build, including how we use AI to accelerate the way we work.

Now we're looking for an engineer to join our Engineering Enablement team: the people who make every other team faster.

What you'll do

• Identify and remove the patterns slowing teams down: tooling, automation, documentation, or simply a better way of doing things.
• Improve and maintain our CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Consult across every product team at Phocas (plus platform, security, and operations) to understand their pain points and find the highest-leverage fixes.
• Help engineering teams adopt AI tools effectively, and explore forward-thinking ways we can use AI to improve how we build software.
• Write clearly: documentation that actually gets read and followed.
• Switch between problems and technologies fast. This role has more variety than most.

What you'll bring

• 3-4 years of software development experience, ideally including time on a platform, enablement, or shared-services team.
• Solid application development skills: the core of this role is writing good software.
• Some DevOps experience: CI/CD, observability, infrastructure-as-code. You don't need to be a specialist, but you need to be comfortable here.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
• A pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset: you measure success by what engineers can actually deliver, not by the elegance of the solution.
• Strong communication and writing skills: you'll be consulting across teams and producing documentation others rely on.
• The kind of person who gets more satisfaction from unblocking someone else than from shipping your own work.
• Security-thinking is a plus.
• You've worked in a small team where there's been no room to hide, and thrived.

Why work at Phocas?

• The people: when we ask what people love most about working here, it's always the same answer.
• High-leverage work: improvements you make multiply across every team in the org; the impact is visible and real.
• Variety: you'll work across more technologies, teams, and problem spaces than almost any other role here.
• 10% PD time: one day a fortnight dedicated to learning and development, no questions asked.
• AI-forward culture: we're deliberate and enthusiastic about using AI to improve how we build; this role will be at the centre of that.
• 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.
• Flexibility: hybrid working and flexible hours.

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 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

More About Phocas: 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.