Senior Software Engineer
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Job Location:
Auckland - New Zealand
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Rico
Rico is a fast-growing New Zealand startup building tools that help planners and councils prepare and process planning applications (e.g. resource consents) more efficiently and consistently.
Resource consents shape almost every built outcome in NZ from housing to infrastructure to farming and the current process is slow fragmented and costly. Were fixing that.
Were small and growing fast (team of 5 and looking to hire 2 further roles in Q1 2026) so what you build will have a real and immediate impact and theres plenty of room to grow.
Tasks
Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer who loves taking ownership of tricky problems and shipping polished reliable features quickly.
Youll report directly to the CTO and help evolve our architecture engineering practices and development processes as we scale.
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Unique Engineering Opportunities
- Plan infrastructure: We maintain a tagged hierarchical representation of council plan data which needs to be kept up to date and versioned. This involves both code to automate as much of this as possible and internal software for the management of these plans.
- Complex report generation: Our software allows for customisable document generation including a plethora of styling options a highly configurable component library and the ability to define custom components. This is achieved through our custom React reconcilers - one for DOCX output and one for a live HTML preview.
- Rich text editing at scale: Building advanced editing and review workflows on top of TipTap/ProseMirror including tracked changes comments diffing and document transformations.
- Production grade functional programming: Functional programming with Typescript and Effect for next level type safety and developer experience.
- UX challenges: Our customers work in a very technical domain (planning) but are not always comfortable with technology. We make complex technical assessments simple to complete.
- Architecture evolution: Helping redesign parts of our system to allow us to scale to more customers new use cases and more employees.
- Security & compliance engineering: Implementing ISO 27001 controls strengthening our security posture and designing processes that balance safety with developer velocity.
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Our Tech Environment
We use a modern pragmatic stack focused on reliability and developer experience:
- Frontend: React TypeScript Effect TipTap
- Backend: TypeScript Effect Postgres
- Infrastructure: AWS (ECS/Fargate RDS S3 CloudFront Cloudformation)
Requirements
- 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Able to work in office 3 or more days a week (based in Victoria Park / St Marys Bay Auckland)
- Legally authorised to work in New Zealand
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We are looking for someone who:
- Has a strong track record of building high-quality web applications.
- Has experience leading or owning features in production systems.
- Enjoys taking initiative and ownership of problems.
- Is comfortable solving difficult and ambiguous problems.
- Communicates clearly especially around trade-offs and constraints.
- Enjoys working with a CTO and contributing directly to architecture and product thinking.
- Has a broad experience: strong frontend skills (React/TypeScript) back-end fundamentals and a good grasp of cloud infrastructure (AWS).
- Is in their element learning new technologies.
- Cares deeply about code quality maintainability and developer experience.
- Has experience with or is interested in learning about security and compliance (ISO27001 especially).
Benefits
- Competitive salary for NZ senior engineers ($160k more or less depending on experience).
- Opportunity to influence our technology and engineering culture as we scale.
- Fast feedback loops: what you build is used by planners across NZ within days.
- Autonomy flexibility and the ability to influence product decisions.
- A supportive low-ego team that values speed quality and practicality.
You recognise yourself in this role and are keen to build impactful solutions to real-world challenges
Wed love to hear from you!
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Rico is a planning tech start-up building software to support resource consent/development application processes across New Zealand and Australia (so far...).Our lead product creates a structured worflow that brings together all the information planners need to carry out an assessment ... View more
