Graduate Backend Developer (.NET)

Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. Christchurch Labs builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors.

The role:

Looking for a Graduate Backend Developer (.NET) who wants to stay somewhere for a while. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in New Zealand. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Key responsibilities:

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning

Requirements:

• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Pay and benefits:

Pay: $69,000 - $94,000 per year

• KiwiSaver contributions
• Five weeks annual leave after the first year
• Flexible hours
• Employee assistance programme
• Annual bonus

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Christchurch Labs.