Senior Software Engineer

Award-winning Engineering team working on critical systems
- Join our caring and collaborative experts who freely share their expertise
- Deliver complex business domain solutions to keep the lights on for Aotearoa
- Work on a range of software development and integration work that supports the running of the NZ electricity grid and electricity market in real time._

Transpower is the owner and operator of the National Grid. At the heart of the electricity sector, we transport high voltage electricity from where it is generated to large electricity users and the distribution businesses that deliver it to homes and businesses nationwide.

Our core purpose is to empower the energy future for New Zealand - a future that delivers a net-zero carbon economy and a reliable and secure electricity system.

**About the team**

Our Application Services team helps ensure electricity is delivered to all New Zealanders, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by maintaining and evolving complex critical IT systems. The business domain we work within ensures there are always new and interesting challenges to tackle and that the work we do matters - electricity is essential to our economy, our health system, and the wellbeing of our citizens.

You will be joining an experienced and high performing team who care about their customers and their work. This is a role where you can truly make a positive impact on our people, organisation, and industry. To learn more about our award-winning IT shop, please check out the following pages:
**About the Opportunity**

This role is focused in the Market System area and contributes to a variety of initiatives, including business-led technical improvements and life cycle refresh projects. This involves balancing both strategic business objectives and necessary technical upgrades to maintain and enhance the market system's performance.

**About you**

As a highly experienced Software Engineer, you'll find this role stimulating You will naturally think broadly and seek to understand how your work contributes to the wider systems and strategic direction of Transpower, whilst leveraging your product development background and experience working across software development and operations.

**To be considered your CV and cover letter will demonstrate**:
Experience delivering complex domain business solutions with a passion for software delivery and quality. You will possess an innate desire to learn and understand the domain you are working within.

You will be able to demonstrate skills at a senior level across these languages / frameworks:
Must have:

- Spring Boot/Java
- Experience of building RESTful web services and JSON
- Distributed services / REST / micro services architecture
- Opensource frameworks
- Maven/Gradle
- Oracle

**Ideal**
- OpenShift
- Linux (RHEL)

**Why you should join us**

Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver. This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders, the planet, and the economy.

With over 28 nationalities, our people provide diverse perspectives, knowledge, and deep and varied experience which they love to share.

We work in the office or on-site for a minimum of three days each week, which helps us build and maintain relationships, support learning, deliver outcomes, and sustain our culture. This approach also offers staff the flexibility they need for both work and personal commitments, with adaptable daily start and finish times.

**Next steps**

We are an accredited employer; therefore, visa sponsorship is available if required for qualified and experienced IT professionals who meet NZ Immigration requirements.