Senior Software Engineer

Ko Wai Mātou - About Us

Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us! With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.

Our Support Centre is 1,000+ people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.”

Te Tūranga – About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer in our Customer Domain Services team, you’ll work closely with the Technical Lead of your respective squad and will build and release micro-services that meet the highest quality standards, are easy to deploy, low on memory, start fast, scales well and almost never break.

To do this, some of what you’ll do is:

• Implement business logic, domain, and data models to the microservices layer whilst taking a full set of architectural, business, and operational requirements into account.
• Write high quality code that is accompanied by high-level of automated testing, performance, and health monitoring as well as comprehensive technical documentation.
• Ensure thorough understanding of application portfolio to support optimal technical design decisions.
• Provide feedback to other team members during design reviews, code reviews and during pairing and swarming activities.
• Collaborate with DevOps team to ensure high-level of CI/CD automation.
• Perform code reviews, application analysis, code modifications and functional testing to troubleshoot application production issues.

Please note application support, including participation in an on-call roster is required.

He Kōrero Mōu - About You

You’re an experienced software engineer with a strong technical foundation and a passion for building reliable, scalable systems that make a real difference. Having delivered software across the full lifecycle and in various settings (enterprise, medium sized businesses, start-ups or consulting, you’ll truly care deeply about clean architecture, writing maintainable code, and finding the right balance between innovation and practicality. You’re also collaborative, open to feedback, and keen to support others while continuing to grow your own skills.

You’ll Also Have

• A bachelor's degree in a software development related subject.
• 7+ years of professional experience in programming in the relevant languages such as NodeJs and Java Programming.
• Proven experience in end to end, technical approaches including and targeting high maintainability, high scalability, easy develop-ability and operability.
• Ability to apply the relevant subset and best out of any industry trend (or hype) to your own methodologies.

Ngā Painga - What We Offer

We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits:

• Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs
• Southern cross health insurance
• Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
• Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

We’re interested in your diverse experiences, your strengths and how adaptable you are to learn and grow. If you don't meet every requirement, but feel this role could be for you, we’d still love to hear from you!

Experience Awesome. Achieve Awesome. Be Awesomely You.

We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.

We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.

If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to Recruitment.Foodstuffs @foodstuffs.co.nz. Accommodations could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.

Are you ready to be part of our bunch – apply now!

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.