Software Engineer (Senior to Staff)

Vxt Ltd.; Christchurch; Hybrid; NZD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary NZD 300,000+

6 months parental leave

4 weeks annual leave

Wellbeing leave 6 days

Travel for conferences

Stock options

Automatic raises every 6 months

PD allowance

Pay transparency

Job summary

VXT Limited is seeking a Software Engineer (Senior to Staff) to work in-person or remotely from New Zealand, Australia, or North America. The role focuses on building AI-enabled tooling to automate legal paperwork, with a team culture rooted in transparency and fast delivery.

HQ is in Christchurch, NZ, with offices in Sydney and Melbourne and extensive remote options.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Excellent communication, attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Strong TypeScript experience and proactive, self-motivated attitude.

Responsibilities

• Talk to lawyers to understand how firms work and translate that into engineering decisions.
• Scope, identify, and deliver product changes, including full-stack work when needed.
• Debug, monitor and improve production systems.

Skills

4+ years experience

Strong communication

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

TypeScript

Stripe experience

Tools

Stripe experience

Job description

Expression of interest Engineering In-person or remote in New Zealand, Australia, or North America (PT) Full-time

Software Engineer (Senior to Staff)

About us

Lawyers spend half of their time at work on paperwork from calls, messages and meetings. Law firms use VXT to make calls, send messages, host meetings and we automate that paperwork using integrations with legal software and AI.

VXTis used daily by over 10k lawyers, who have made 20m phone calls using our apps.

Our culture

We want VXT to be the best place you’ve ever worked. We’ve built a team focused on transparency, accountability, and moving fast together and we’re incredibly protective of it. We hire exceptional people who genuinely care about each other.

In seven years only three full-time staff have ever left VXT, and 35% of our team have VXT's logo tattoo'd on their body (not a requirement for employment).

Read more about our culture here and see what life is like at VXT through our videos here .

Location

Most of our engineering team works from our HQ in Christchurch (NZ). We have smaller offices in co-working spaces in Sydney (AU) and Melbourne (AU) as well. We have many remote team mates, but candidates near established offices are advantaged.

What you'll be working on

As a Software Engineer at VXT, you will:

• Talk to lawyers to understand how firms work and turn what you learn into engineering decisions.
• Identify, scope, and deliver product changes, including full-stack work when the project calls for it.
• Debug, monitor, and improve production systems.
• Write, update and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Contribute to team discussions and mentor junior engineers.
• Collaborate across teams to inform your work.

You could start working on one of:

• AI (in-product, and dev tools).
• Computer engineering (mix of hardware and software).
• API integrations.

Tech stack

• TypeScript
• Google Cloud Platform
• Firebase services
• Terraform
• Kubernetes

Benefits

• NZD $300,000+ salary.
• 5% automatic raises every 6 months.
• NZD $X00,000+ stock options.
• Pay transparency.
• Uncapped professional development.
• $3.6k annual wellbeing allowance for healthcare, public transport, gym etc.
• 6 days of mandatory wellbeing leave per year.
• Expenses paid for international travel for conferences and team offsites (Fiji in 2024, Japan in 2025, Portugal in 2026).
• 4 weeks of paid annual leave.
• 6 months of parental leave at full pay, no matter who's giving birth.

Who we're looking for

• 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Exceptional communication, attention to detail, and analytical skills.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with a willingness to take initiative.
• Experience with TypeScript.
• Recent experience working at Stripe is highly advantageous.

Your manager: Lucy Turner Chief Technology Officer

Interview process

Our process includes a reverse interview, a hard assessment designed for the position, and a final interview.