Junior Software Developer

Preconstruction, VDC and safety teams support every project from bid to closeout. Self-perform crews of carpenters, ironworkers and laborers number in the thousands. Start time is 6:30 a.m., and crews work 10-hour days in summer.

Role overview:

This role opened up because a team member is relocating. The Junior Software Developer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Our Platform team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. This is a hybrid role. Most of the team is in the Auckland office Tuesday to Thursday.

In this role you will:

• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.

Required qualifications:

• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Preferred:

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Why work with us:

• Health insurance.
• KiwiSaver contributions.
• Five weeks annual leave after the first year.
• Annual bonus.
• Hybrid working.

Applications close when we find the right person.

Start: Flexible.

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