Senior Software Engineer

TeWhiwhingamahi The Opportunity  

As a Senior Software Engineer youll be a key technical leader within a cross-functional squad. Youll balance hands-on development with shaping how solutions are designed built and evolved. 

Youll work closely with Product Design Architecture and business teams to turn ideas into well-engineered scalable solutions that support both our customers and our people. 

This is an opportunity to have real impact the systems you help build will underpin how Contact operates day-to-day and into the future. 

What youll be doing 

• Leading technical design and contributing to key engineering decisions 
• Ability to help shape and uplift practice through technical leadership best practices mentoring and establishing scalable engineering standards. 
• Building robust scalable software across modern technology stacks 
• Partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions 
• Influencing integration patterns and architecture direction 
• Coaching and mentoring other engineers lifting team capability 
• Driving a culture of continuous improvement and shared ownership 

This role carries accountability for quality resilience and sustainability of the software you help deliver alongside a genuine commitment to growing capability across the team.

Qualifications :

Kowaikoe About You 

Were looking for experienced engineers who enjoy working across complex systems and collaborating with others to solve interesting challenges. Were keen to hear from people with strong foundations curiosity and a growth mindset. 

What youll bring:

System design & architecture 

• Experience designing or contributing to distributed or cloud-based systems 
• Understanding of scalability performance and reliability trade-offs 
• Confidence contributing to architecture discussions and technical direction 

Full stack development 

• Full-stack development experience with a strong focus on the ecosystem 
• Proven experience building scalable backend services and APIs using and C# 
• Strong proficiency in C# and frameworks (.NET Core / Core) 
• Experience working across the stack including frontend development using JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks such as React Angular or Vue 
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs microservices and integration patterns 
• Experience with backend architecture database design and cloud-based application development 
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines DevOps practices and source control tools such as Git 
• Understanding of secure coding practices performance optimisation and scalable application design 

Integration debugging & observability 

• Experience integrating with APIs services or third-party platforms 
• Strong troubleshooting skills across systems and environments 
• Familiarity with logging monitoring or observability practices 

DevOps data & security 

• Experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker) 
• Understanding of databases (SQL or NoSQL) and data modelling 
• Awareness of authentication and security practices (e.g. OAuth JWT) 

Cloud platforms 

• Hands-on experience working in cloud environments (ideally AWS) 
• Understanding of performance scalability and cost considerations 

Additional Information :

We support flexible working where it works for you your team and the business. Our main hubs are Wellington Auckland and Tauranga and this role is best suited to someone who can work flexibly from one of these locations to support strong collaboration and connection. 

Contact is not a place youll stagnate. We are growing and offer superb learning and development opportunities along with a bunch of other perks like free health insurance cover boosted KiwiSaver access to Contact Shares a Good to be Home annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing a trail-blazing parental leave policy twice yearly payments towards our products if youre a Contact customer and more! 

Applications close on Wednesday 3rd June but just like peak demand great talent surges early so if this role sparks your interest power up your application now! 

We love a good story at Contact its what keeps our energy flowing! If youve got one that connects with this role send it our way. 

Here at Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko) we know our strength lies in developing a sense of belonging - one that helps us attract and retain people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences.

Were committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued respected and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our customers and communities to help build a better Aotearoa New Zealand.

We have a rich community of talented people that we support to thrive at Contact.

Our inclusive hiring process is designed to embrace the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand ensuring a wide range of perspectives are included in our decision-making and helping reduce bias along the way.

The wellbeing of our kaimahi is super important to us.

We use employee insights to offer a range of initiatives and resources to support physical mental financial and emotional wellbeing including flexible working arrangements employee network groups and a market-leading parental leave policy.

At Te Mata Hiko we want everyone to thrive. We welcome applicants far and wide - of every age stage background and pride. Join us and be part of a team that values your passion and attitude just as much as your experience and skills.

Please note only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. Were not about box ticking so if you think you have what it takes but dont meet everything stated above please still get in touch. Wed love to kōrero.

Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where a formal engagement has not been confirmed and agreed to with our Talent the event that unsolicited CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This will also apply to any CVs sent directly to line managers.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time