Our client is a fast-growing New Zealand business that's maturing quickly and doing it deliberately. They're looking for a contract Engineer to hold the fort while the permanent team ramps up.
The Role:
This is a hands-on, technically focused contract for a Back-End Developer who thrives in a fast-moving environment.
You'll be embedded in a capable engineering team, working across BAU support, security, performance, and a couple of meaningful uplift projects.
There's minimal domain knowledge required ato hit the ground running. The work is largely infrastructure and code-focused. What matters more is that you're technically sharp, proactive, and comfortable working with some ambiguity.
What You'll Be Working On:
- BAU maintenance and day-to-day technical support
- Security hardening and IAM permissions management on AWS
- Performance optimisation and code clean-up
- Replacing the existing monitoring and observability system
- Internal tools upgrade
- Some light front-end work (HTMX, Tailwind) A bonus, not the primary focus
What You'll Bring:
Technical
- Strong C# experience, both OOP and functional programming welcomed
- Solid, demonstrable AWS knowledge
- Confidence across infrastructure, back-end systems, and security
- Some exposure to HTMX and Tailwind is advantageous
To thrive in an environment of deliberate maturation where process and role definition is underway, you'll need to be:
- Collaborative and communicative - you'll be working alongside engineers, PMs, and other stakeholders
- Proactive and able to use your initiative
- Comfortable with some ambiguity and capable of seeking out the right people to get context
- Focused on quality output and able to act with integrity given the sensitivity of client data in this environment
- Willing to contribute to process documentation as the business grows into this space
This business is at an exciting point in it's maturation journey. With potential for further extension onto other pipelined projects (which are currently under NDA), there's no shortage of interesting work to hit 'go' on.
Apply now to be considered. Please note we can only consider NZ-based applicants with valid working rights.
