Senior Application Developer

We are currently seeking two roles, a **Senior Application Developer**and an** Application Developer** to join our Product Team supporting our Trade System. This is a nationally significant system enabling the smooth, secure, and controlled flow of goods across New Zealand's borders.

**About this role**...
- Maintenance and enhancement of existing deployed systems
- Contributing to the design of complex solutions
- Developing technical solutions from start, through deployment, to ongoing support and enhancement
- Operational support to a highly visible, business critical, high-volume, 24/7 system.

Experience working with agile methodologies and your great communication skills will help you influence decision making and deliver optimal outcomes for our users.

Reporting directly to the Product Manager Trade, you will actively help us on a journey of modernisation and enhancement across a range of products and services.

You will be part of a team of Architects, Developers, DevSecOps Engineers, Subject Matter Experts (and others) - working across a variety of products and technology stacks, and utilising Azure Cloud Services, to collectively deliver regular value to our stakeholders.

This is a permanent role in our Information Services (IS) group based in the Wellington Customhouse (hybrid option available).

**We ideally need someone who**

We are hoping for a general mix of the following technical experience, skills and personal attributes:
**Essential skills**:

- Java (Spring Boot, Quarkus)
- JavaScript (Node.js)
- Azure Cloud Computing
- APIs

**Non-essential but helpful skills**:

- React, Dojo
- Messaging queues
- Modern development tools and pipelines

**Supporting experience and personal attributes**:

- An understanding of other related areas such as UX design concepts, product development, networking, security compliance etc.
- 2-5 years+ of relevant experience as an Application Developer working across all stages of the product development lifecycle and ideally within complex technology environments
- Experience working within an Agile delivery framework and DevOps
- The proven ability to work well in a team in a highly collaborative manner
- Calm under pressure, able to make significant consequential decisions quickly, safely, and in a well-reasoned manner
- User-centric viewpoint and empathy
- An expansive mindset with the ability to work flexibly, delivering change and support across multiple products and services simultaneously
- Able to adapt to and learn new technologies and methodologies as required
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Able to work unsociable hours as part of a support roster (compensated)
- Able to occasionally work unsociable hours in support of deployments
- Satisfy Customs' Security vetting requirements.

**What we would offer you**
- Interesting and varied work, enabling you to use your creativity and initiative
- Learning and development opportunities and on-the-job support.
- A culture of valuing people, including flexible work conditions
- A modern building close to public transport hubs and parking
- Excellent end-of-trip facilities with access to a free in-house gym.

To join Customs in any role you must be a **New Zealand citizen or NZ permanent resident** and be able to obtain and retain** Confidential** security clearance.

**Please note Customs will be managing this recruitment independently in-house and will not be engaging with recruitment agencies at this stage.**

**Applications close at 11pm, Wednesday 26 February 2025**

**Job details**:

- Reference #
- 43191
- Posted on
- 12 Feb 2025
- Closes on
- 26 Feb 2025
- Location(s)
- Wellington
- Expertise
- Information Technology
- Job level(s)
- Experienced
- Work type(s)
- Permanent Full Time
- Additional attachment