Senior Software Engineer | Typescript

🖍️ This role

In this role, you will work alongside other members of our development team to tackle hard, exciting problems and build beautiful software.

You will report to Matt Goodson (Tech Lead) or Evan Jia (Co-founder & Head of Engineering).

💻 What will you do

• You'll be working on mission-critical systems for our core SaaS and API platform.
• You will be ensuring these features are highly scalable, fault-tolerant and accurate.
• You will be working to provide a great experience to businesses using the Partly platform.
• You will be helping to develop and share software best practices with the team.
• This is an opportunity to become an expert in the extremely complex and underserved auto parts domain.

🥷 Your skills

• 5+ years of experience developing complex applications
• Strong experience with TypeScript
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals, including data structures, concurrency, architecture, APIs, testing, and design patterns.
• Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills
• Strong knowledge of databases and data models, relational and NoSQL
• Experience building reliable, distributed systems
• (Bonus) Experience with automotive parts
• (Bonus) Experience with Node.js
• (Bonus) Experience with Rust

Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus equity. Even though we’re a small startup, we offer competitive salaries and great equity.
• Parental leave and flexible return to work. After returning to work, primary carers can work 4-day weeks for 100% of their pay for the first twelve weeks. For secondary carers, we offer 10 days of leave at full pay.
• Flexible working hours. We’re office-first, but are flexible 
with hours and working from home when you need to.
• A brand new architecturally designed office in Christchurch CBD. With free snacks, drinks on tap, two different coffee machines, social areas, and one of the best cafes in Christchurch 50m away.
• Monthly team lunches to celebrate our wins and enjoy each other's company outside the office.
• Ergonomic workspace. Sit-stand desks, ergonomic chairs, quiet spaces, and collaboration spaces to suit all kinds of working styles.