Principal Software Engineer

2 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Serko Ltd Full time

Serko is an NZX50, global business travel, and expense company, with our Headquarters based in Parnell, Auckland. As the 2020 HI-Tech Company of the Year, we're a SaaS that is diverse, a close-knit group where everyone's opinion matters. We’re already the established leader in Australasia and revolutionizing the way people do business travel in the USA and Europe - and we’re growing

Our purpose is to "**Bring People Together**", coupled with a vision to "**Create a Connected, Frictionless Travel Experience**". While the world of business travel is changing, we’re preparing companies for this with intelligent technology that helps them ensure the continued safety and well-being of their travellers.

**Requirements**:
The Principal Engineer will be responsible for providing sound design, process, and technical input in the creation and ongoing maintenance of Serko’s software solutions while also consistently producing software of the highest quality through great patterns and practices like continuous improvement, TDD, continuous delivery, refactoring, and automation.

Collaborate in our supportive team of Engineers located in Parnell, Auckland. Join us on our journey as we extend, adapt, and improve our products. Opportunities range from enhancing our backend services, improving developer experience and deployment mechanisms, and in some places completely re-engineering new versions.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Collaborate with cross-functional product engineering teams to create quality software that our customers love
- Produce clean, consistent and well-organised code that we regularly push to production on our technology stack.
- Contribute towards continuous improvement in the company’s processes, practices and product
- Work in a “build it and run it” environment where engineering teams build, deploy, monitor and support their components that they own
- Proactively research and lead design and then drive adoption of modern technical practices such as DDD, TDD, CI/CD, pair-programming and mob-programming.
- Mentor and coach other engineers at any-level.
- Hands-on guidance in the use of principles and practices of leading-edge techniques such as Lean, Agile, Automated testing, Continuous Delivery, DevOps and cloud-based hosting across engineering crews.
- Influence and contribute to company-wide engineering culture and outcomes with exemplary working behavior, collaboration and engineering practices.
- Help determine areas for improvement, both product and process, and to assist in driving solutions across the organization using a mixture of innovation and pragmatism
- Encourage community engagement both inside and outside of Serko to benefit our engineering culture.
- Open to receiving and giving feedback in a safe and inclusive work environment
- Adopting modern development practices especially around emergent design, automation and continuous delivery
- Willingness to jump into all areas of our products and processes to improve them when needed
- Working in multiple technologies across all layers (from front-end to back-end)
- Great verbal and written communication
- Leading design and planning meetings, story mapping workshops and bringing extensive domain understanding; clearly articulating technical outcomes and nuances.

**Skills, knowledge and experience**
- Open to receiving and giving feedback in a safe and inclusive work environment
- Adopting modern development practices especially around emergent design, automation and continuous delivery
- Willingness to jump into all areas of our products and processes to improve them when needed
- Working in multiple technologies across all layers (from front-end to back-end)
- Great verbal and written communication
- Leading design and planning meetings, story mapping workshops and bringing extensive domain understanding; clearly articulating technical outcomes and nuances.

**Benefits**

It's important to us, that our people can bring their whole selves to work. Join our team and we have the following on offer for you
- Competitive salary + Kiwisaver + A generous incentive scheme
- Laptop, modern office with games, exceptional coffee, snacks, and a great social atmosphere
- Permanent full-time opportunity
- Promotional opportunities among an established & growing global organization
- 1:1 mentoring with industry leaders to help your growth towards your career pathways
- Flexibility to work-from-home
- Flexible starting and finishing hours
- Inclusive culture which embraces the diversity of our people - with many different nationalities proudly represented across the Serko workforce. We look for people to add to our culture

**How to Apply**

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