Move to New Zealand - Senior Software Engineer

Work alongside our innovative team based in Auckland, New Zealand! We are seeking talented individuals excited about the opportunity to learn, expand their skillset and support our company. We welcome applications from individuals located internationally looking to relocate to Auckland, New Zealand. This role is based in Auckland and requires in-office attendance (hybrid). Propellerhead hires exceptional talent from all around the globe and many of our people have relocated to New Zealand to join our team. We've created this website packed full of information about moving to New Zealand to work for Propellerhead, if you're interested in making the move to our wonderful country. Prior to applying, please be aware that the final stage of our recruitment process is an in-person interview in New Zealand (click apply and see our application questions for more details). The Role: Propellerhead is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our core engineering team (reporting to the CTO) to research and define future technical strategies for Propellerhead and our clients. The engineering team provides the core tools, techniques, and software libraries to support service development teams. You will guide proofs of concept to production, mentoring team members on new technologies and practices. You’ll also help our teams and customers navigate the development of effective, secure enterprise software and deployment architectures in the age of AI. Your team will consist of like-minded software craftspeople and will operate with a degree of autonomy seldom experienced in other organisations. Propellerhead operates a hybrid working model (work from our office and from your own home). While you must be based in Auckland for this role, we warmly welcome applications from across New Zealand and internationally who are planning to relocate to Auckland. This particular role requires regular in-person office attendance. If you are ready to work on real problems with real impact, and help lay the groundwork for what comes next - we would like to hear from you. Role Responsibilities: Define technical solutions through research and team investigation, in line with the vision directed by the CTO. Actively participate in the design and construction of software across the full stack—including code structure, deployment architecture, DevOps, automated testing, and integration of third-party systems. This will primarily involve the use of LLMs, with the expectation you will do virtually no hand-coding. Collaborate with client stakeholders and fellow Propellerhead team members to ensure a shared understanding of solution design and roadmap delivery in line with agreed budgets. Drive the migration of existing polyglot solutions to standardized Rust and TypeScript, towards more standardized and portable deployment architectures, and pass on technical learning to the broader organisation to embed