Senior Principal Engineer

3 months 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.

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 wellbeing of their travellers.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering for the Core Stream, you will have the responsibility of creating synergy and empowering our engineering team to develop reliable, scalable, and commercially viable domain and supporting services for our modernised travel platform.

Critical to this role is proficiency in backend programming languages such as C# or Java, combined with deep expertise across the full lifecycle of backend services and APIs using cloud computing technologies and platforms. However, this position goes beyond being a technology expert.

**Requirements**:
You will be part of a small group of Senior Principal Engineers who play a pivotal role in defining and enhancing the "how" of our engineering craft at Serko.

Excellent leadership qualities and the ability to collaborate effectively with various stakeholders across the organisation are essential. You should be highly skilled in leading complex and ambiguous programs or projects that have a significant impact on the organisation as a whole.

Collaborating closely with Architecture, Product, Engineering, and senior business leaders, you will contribute to shaping our product and technology strategy.

**What you will bring to the team**:

- Deep functional experience building software systems in a product-led organisation.
- Deep expert knowledge in the full lifecycle of backend services and APIs (designing, building, discoverability, documentation) using cloud computing technologies (we currently build our services in C# on Azure).
- Deep experience in technical leadership and influencing an entire engineering group.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, influencing up to Senior Leadership audiences.
- The ability to work with diverse individuals from different backgrounds, expertise, and professional and personal needs, driving alignment on product development and strategy in complex stakeholder environments to achieve high-impact business outcomes.
- Deep experience designing and building software that is easily testable, observable, and scalable
- Strong facilitation skills. Able to lead the design and workshopping sessions for large cross-team groups, bringing extensive domain understanding; clearly articulating technical outcomes and nuances.
- Demonstrated experience building talent, capability and internal capacity for new technology, frameworks, and innovative practices in software engineering.
- Demonstrated experience making careful engineering trade-offs, particularly around "Build vs Buy", evaluating potential third-party systems to partner with, and managing and working with vendors to meet our business needs.

**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
- A competitive base salary and opportunity to take part in our employee incentive share scheme, KiwiSaver global equivalent) and life insurance.
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements, where you get to choose how to best structure your day and week so you can be at your best.
- A focus on both well-being and doing, including:

- Wellbeing & volunteer days, focused meeting free time
- Discounted Southern Cross health insurance (NZ), free flu shots, and access to confidential support, guidance, and counselling services.
- A focus on both wellbeing and doing, including:

- Wellbeing & volunteer days, focused meeting free time
- Discounted Southern Cross health insurance (NZ), free flu shots, and access to confidential support, guidance, and counselling service
- Enhanced parental leave including:

- 20 weeks on full pay for the primary caregiver
- Return to work support for the primary caregiver
- Three weeks of paid Partner Leave

**How to Apply

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