Principal Software Engineer

2 weeks ago


Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Transpower Full time
Are you an experienced full stack lead, strong in Java technologies?

  • Join our fun team working on a fiveyear pipeline of meaningful project work
  • Exciting sector, supportive environment, and great opportunities to learn


Transpower owns and operates New Zealand's National Grid - the unique High Voltage transmission network connecting areas of generation with towns and cities across New Zealand.

The national grid is connected by HVDC between our two main islands with a large amount of renewable energy generated in the South and a growing load requirement in the North.

With a whole-of-industry view of the electricity sector, we are at the forefront of the country's pending energy transition. Our team is working hard to enable accelerated electrification, and a sustainable net carbon zero future.

About the team


Within our Information Services and Technology Division, our Application Services team helps ensure that electricity is delivered to all New Zealanders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by maintaining and evolving complex critical IT systems.

The business domain we work within ensures there are always new and interesting challenges to tackle and that the work we do matters.


About the opportunity
Join an experienced and high performing team who care about their customers and their work. This is a stimulating role where you can truly make a positive impact on our people, organisation, and industry.

You'll be involved in challenging and varied work to:

  • Develop and maintain web enabled software while technically leading a team of senior developers in delivering technology solutions to meet business needs.
  • Champion and take responsibility for software engineering quality practices.
  • Develop and maintain DevOps practices across all our products.


Ultimately alongside the Software Engineering Manager, you'll help build our development capability, partnering with our vendors, designers, and architects to help set direction, approaches, and standards used across the team.


About you


As a highly experienced lead Software Engineer, you'll have proven ability to deliver high quality work to scope, specifications, and timeframes.

You'll think broadly to understand how your work contributes to the wider systems and strategic direction of Transpower, leveraging your product development background and experience working across software development and operations.


Most importantly, you're passionate about software delivery and quality, and have a desire to learn and share your knowledge with others.


To be considered, your CV and covering letter will demonstrate:

  • Hands-on and current software development experience in Object Oriented technologies while leading product teams in delivering complex software
  • 10 or more years of software analysis, design, and programming experience
  • Demonstrated indepth knowledge of a broad range of hardware and software products
  • Experience with Design / Modelling notations and tools (such as UML with Sparx Enterprise Architect)

Technical Skills:

  • Experience with.
Net, Kafka, modern UI framework like React/Angular2 would be advantageous

Join us at Transpower
Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver.

This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders, every day and long into the future.


With over 28 nationalities, our people provide diverse perspectives, knowledge, and deep and varied experience which they love to share.


Next steps

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