Senior Software Developer

Ratonga Matihiko | Digital Services

Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand
- Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
- Permanent position
- Generous annual leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā He hiahia, he pūkenga nōu ki te mahi a te Senior Software Developer? Nāia te pōwhiri nā Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha kia tono mai i te tūranga nei._

**Āu Mahi | What You Will Do**

As Senior Software Developer, you will play a key role in UC's agile software development teams, delivering high-quality software solutions that meet business needs. You'll be involved in all aspects of the development lifecycle—from design and coding to testing, deployment, and documentation.

You'll also contribute to mentoring and supporting junior developers, sharing your expertise to foster team growth. Your work will span integration, automation, and support, ensuring UC's digital platforms are robust, scalable, and secure.

**Mōu | Who You Are**
You have significant commercial software development experience (7+ years') or hold a relevant post-graduate qualification.
- Software developers at UC can expect to use a variety of languages, frameworks and tools throughout their career. For this project, you should have experience with several of the following:

- Microservice development, and asynchronous event-based programming
- Source control with Git, and CI/CD tools and techniques, as well as unit and automated testing
- Domain Driven Design
- DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering
- Integration with internal and external systems
- An alignment with our organisation's values and culture, promoting a positive and inclusive work environment.

As our team works in an agile manner, it's important that you are adaptable, enjoying working in a collaborative environment, have an eye for detail, and can communicate effectively.

**Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With**
Building world-class digital capability is crucial to the University of Canterbury's ongoing success. Digital Services is a large team, striving to provide a modern dynamic foundation from which the University (UC) can explore new business models and ways of working. Digital will transform how we work, behave, and the expectations of the communities we service

**Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC**
Ngā Uara | Our Values of manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and tiakitanga guide our decisions and behaviour and provide a roadmap for how we do things at UC, affirming our commitment to pastoral care and support for our ākonga and staff. They challenge and inspire us to be the best we can, and make UC a great place to work and study. For more info on Ngā Uara | Our Values visit us here.

We are committed to accessible higher education, service to the community and the encouragement of talent without barriers of distance, wealth, class, gender or ethnicity. The University explicitly aims to produce graduates and support staff who are engaged with their communities, empowered to act for good and determined to make a difference in the world.

**The closing date for this position is: 24**th** August 2025 (midnight, NZ time)**:
**Pēhea te tono mai | How You Apply**

Applications for this position must be submitted via our careers website and should include a cover letter and resume.

You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency or hold a valid NZ work visa to be considered for this role.

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**Job Details**:

- Reference #
- 28572
- Posted on
- 11 Aug 2025
- Closes on
- 24 Aug 2025 23:55
- Location(s)
- Christchurch
- Expertise
- Information Technology
- Job level(s)
- Experienced
- Work type(s)
- Continuing (Permanent) full-time