Senior Software Engineer I

3 days ago


New Zealand Alianza, Inc. Full time NZ$120,000 - NZ$180,000 per year

A Senior Software Engineer is an experienced engineer who has achieved mastery of the software engineering process and is the company expert on one or more sizeable product components. They have a deep understanding of the telecoms domain. They own and deliver complex projects, through all stages of the software development lifecycle, independently and with a high level of productivity. They deliver impact predominantly through individual contribution but also leverage and contribute to the work of others. 

Key Responsibilities:  

  • Own and deliver complex one-person projects end-to-end, from architecture through deployment, working from loose briefs
  • Contributes to larger team-scoped projects through some combination of producing high-level designs, large/complex test strategies, or debugging all-but the most challenging field bugs in unfamiliar code
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to their professional growth
  • Drive technical excellence through code reviews, best practices, and quality standards
  • Investigate and introduce new technologies and methodologies to improve team capabilities
  • Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated solutions
  • Participate in hiring and help build strong engineering teams
  • Resolve complex technical challenges and serve as escalation point for critical issues

Competencies & Attributes 

  • Technical Depth-Maintain detailed understanding of key components and technologies in your domain
  • Proactive Learning- Fill knowledge gaps through independent investigation–can adapt to different languages, devices and operating systems
  • Collaboration to elevate others- supporting and mentoring teammates and building relationships with neighboring teams for effective information sharing
  • Reliable Ownership– across your projects, components and processes, you are trusted to exercise judgement, meet commitments and to spot and drive resolution of issues
  • Informed Advocacy– understand the customer need, business case and wider context so that you can advocate for the right outcomes in areas such as security, quality and ongoing maintenance

Desired Skills/Qualifications 

  • A degree from a reputable University (preferably STEM) or equivalent years of experience
  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, covering the full software development lifecycle, in telecoms or a similarly complex domain with high availability requirements
  • Mastery of advanced programming concepts such as low-level resource optimizations and high-level design patterns, across multiple languages
  • Expertise in software technologies including Linux, IP networking, databases, open-source software and cloud computing platforms
  • Experience in more than one specialist domain, examples: real-time collaboration application development, real-time multimedia communications application development, instant messaging and presence application development, SIP application development
  • Mastery of code management in Git and/or SVN, including advanced branching
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills


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