Key skills
AzureDjangoETLKafkaPythonReactSQLTypeScriptAIClaudeAgenticELTData EngineeringDatabricksFastAPIService BusCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Own the reliability and performance of core production systems — reducing toil, improving observability, and keeping things running well.
- Build modern, responsive user interfaces using React (TypeScript).
- Build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs in Python (Django or FastAPI).
- Diagnose and fix issues across the full stack.
- Lead incremental upgrades, refactors, and migrations that reduce risk and unlock new platform capabilities.
- Use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent) daily and help others do the same.
- Build agentic workflows that amplify the wider engineering team’s productivity.
- Collaborate across time zones with peers in Auckland and London on incidents, releases, and architecture.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical challenges.
Requirements
- Proven track record delivering and running production systems at pace, with strong operational instincts (incident management and observability).
- Strong frontend experience with React (TypeScript).
- Python backend experience with Django or FastAPI.
- Solid SQL and database skills — schema design, query optimisation, migrations.
- Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools; you have opinions on how to use them well and can teach others.
- Experience working effectively across distributed teams and time zones.
- A bias toward simplicity, clear communication, and working in the open.
- Familiarity with LLMs or agentic systems in production (Desirable).
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Azure Service Bus) (Desirable).
- Data engineering concepts: ETL/ELT pipelines, Databricks, or Azure Data Factory (Desirable).
- Background in regulated or data-sensitive environments (Desirable).
Tech Stack
- Azure
- Django
- ETL
- Kafka
- Python
- React
- SQL
- TypeScript
Benefits
- Paid Leave
- 35 days (inclusive of public holidays) + your birthday off
- Volunteering Leave Allowance
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Life Insurance
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Pension
- Monthly Wellbeing Allowance
- Breakfast, Snacks, Friday lunch & Barista Coffee Machine in the office
- Learning Portal with over 100,000 assets available to support professional development