Full Stack Software Developer
UneeQ, New Zealand

Purpose

UneeQ is the global standard for digital humans, enabling creators and brands to bring impactful interaction into our digital world. This full-stack software developer role is a key contributor to one of UneeQ’s core product teams and plays an important role in helping to develop UneeQ’s platform and take it to market. In particular the role:

• Is involved in developing and operating software as a member of the product team.
• Collaborates with other engineering staff on architectural and technical design decisions.
• Is an active participant in the team’s delivery processes (e.g. leading planning/grooming sessions, suggesting improvements at retrospectives, demoing at reviews etc.).

This role is New Zealand based and reports to the Platform Team Lead working within the wider Product Team. UneeQ is a remote-first workplace meaning you will mostly be working from your home.

• Deliver a high quality of development output via code that is well-crafted, comprehensively unit-tested and appropriately documented.
• Maximise system quality by quantifying, testing and understanding changes in the context of the end to end system.
• Help de-risk complex development efforts participating in product discovery activities, experiments and proof-of-concept development.
• Encourage the adoption of continuous integration, and always be looking for opportunities to level up the team’s deployment practices and overall productivity.
• Help ensure that reasonable expectations around delivery are set with stakeholders
• Work closely with QAs to both triage product defects, and collaborate on strategies for defect prevention.
• Help ensure that UneeQ’s platform operates within the SLAs agreed with customers, and meets internal non-functional requirements.

• Perception of development team effectiveness among stakeholders
• Feedback on individual effectiveness among peers

• Problem solving ability
• Attention to detail
• Ability to be a positive influence on other team members
• Openness, and willingness to learn new things

Requirements

Specific capabilities that will be necessary

• Experience with back-end engineering ideally in golang or java/kotlin but other languages are OK.
• Experience with Javascript amp; Typescript and modern front end web technologies would be valuable.
• Ability to suggest improvements to technologies, tools and processes, including the ability to evaluate alternative options.
• Ability to break down large, complex pieces of work into small executable chunks.
• Ability to share information/knowledge with other members of the team, and more junior members when required.
• Ability to make pragmatic decisions around scope, technical design and unit test coverage.
• Ability to have productive discussions and debates with team members around potential technical approaches.
• A professional attitude towards performance feedback; providing it to others generously, and being open minded when receiving it from others.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 100% of employee health insurance premiums (including vision and dental).
• Annual learning allowance to support us to continue to develop and grow

Job Rewards and Benefits