Snr Full Stack Developer - Comms

At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwi to create the life they want. Whether it's the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or growing their business, or the smaller things, like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff. At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwi look first.

You'll work with your squad, engineering and product teams to bring product enhancements and new products to life on our Comms Platform, delivering an experience to our customers that is second to none. In this 12-month fixed-term role, you'll bring engineering-for-scale experience, sound distributed systems judgement and technical leadership to systems that other teams rely on.

Here is what you can expect from this role:

• Design, estimate and plan the work your squad needs to do, with technical ownership and accountability for projects
• Write code and unit tests, then build, test, release and monitor what you ship to production
• Mentor and coach junior members of the team
• Peer review code and document your work as you go so others can maintain and build on it
• Find and address challenges with our processes and practices, and apply new technologies to solve business problems
• Get involved in initiatives to improve the Trade Me code base and technical design

What you will bring to our team:

• 5+ years in similar development roles, with a history of engineering for scale
• Hands-on experience developing with AI tools, and a natural curiosity to weave them into your everyday work
• Strong production experience with .NET (C#) and TypeScript/Angular
• Production experience with SQL, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka or similar, and cloud with Terraform
• Experience designing and running production systems with good alerting, and leading incidents
• Experience running large data migrations or repairs safely, with dry runs, checks and rollback plans
• A track record of shipping changes to systems other teams depend on, and managing the effect on those teams
• Comfort working in legacy code or databases with little documentation, and documenting what you learn
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical work across teams
• Sound judgement on distributed systems (eventual consistency, back-pressure, capacity and cost), making design decisions based on cost, capacity and simplicity
• Clear communication of technical concepts, strong collaboration and critical thinking, openness to ideas and the ability to adapt your approach to the situation

You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:

#AI and Tech: We live and breathe AI in our daily tasks. We value curiosity and an open mind towards new tech, offering dedicated AI skilling to help you grow and thrive in a fast-changing landscape.

#Flexibility: Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance. We value team connection and come together in person on Monday and at least one other day a week.

#Wellness: Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way.

#Leave: We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days of wellness leave each year and 10 days of sick leave from day 1.

#Social: Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more.

#Learning: Whether it's on the job, formal training, or mentoring, you'll grow with us from Day 1. We're big on internal mobility and look to our own talent first for new opportunities.

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the “Why”.

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.

Check out the job description for this role here.