Senior Software Engineer

6 days ago


New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

Full time Permanent Position - 40 hours per week
Four available positions
Based in Wellington Central however flexibility to work remotely from anywhere in NZ
This is your opportunity to join our Information Services Software Engineering Team who are doing awesome things and making a real difference to education in New Zealand
Whakatairangatia ngā kete o te mātauranga ki te ao mārama E te tai whakarunga, e te tai whakararo - nau piki mai, nau kake mai ki te Mana Tohu Mātauranga o Aotearoa.
May the baskets of knowledge (education) be brought into the world of light. We welcome one and all to join us at the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.
About the role
Currently there are four vacancies for Senior Software Engineers. These positions are across multiple projects and work streams.
About you
You possess a strong desire to learn, have excellent problem solving, multi-tasking and context-switching abilities, and have solid proven experience in enterprise Java development. Additionally, you will be well versed with all areas of the SDLC and had exposure to DevOps practices.
Skills and experience
- Core Java and Java enterprise (Must have solid proven experience)
- Spring (Spring Boot and common libraries), Hibernate, JPA, XML, SQL
- Web development and frameworks - JBoss, JSP, JavaScript (including common libraries), HTML/CSS
- API/REST development and integration
- Git, Gradle and Maven, Jenkins, command line scripting
- AWS experience, Docker and API development on ECS/Lambda a big bonus

We offer a fantastic team culture and environment, great technical challenges and career development, and the opportunity to be part of the transformation of one of the most important sectors in New Zealand.

**Salary and other benefits**:

- Salary range is $105,441 - $127,881 per annum.
- A supportive team / whanau environment
- A role with lots of variety
- We offer Life and Income Protection Insurance, School Holiday Childcare Subsidy, Health & Reimbursement, Annual Influenza vaccination.to find out more click here NZQA Staff Benefits

About us
If you would like to discuss further, please call Juan van den Anker on 027 4589 646.
NZQA is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer.



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