Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at Auror

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud, Distributed Systems, React, TypeScript, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Auckland, New Zealand

About the role

• Join Auror as Software Engineers working on innovative solutions against organized retail crime. Collaborate in a hybrid environment while leveraging technology to make a difference.

Responsibilities

• This Expression of Interest covers opportunities across multiple engineering levels from early-career to Principal. As part of submitting your EOI, we’ll ask you to indicate:
• Your role level(s) of interest
• Your location preferences
• We’ll be reviewing EOIs in the new year with next steps and more detailed role information.

Requirements

• Bias to action & ownership: You take full ownership of complex problem spaces bringing urgency, focus, and accountability. You’re not afraid to make pragmatic calls, remove blockers, and drive initiatives forward, even in the face of ambiguity or lack of consensus.
• Technical mastery and judgment: Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, C# .NET Core, and cloud-native architectures. You know how to design distributed systems with clear domain boundaries that balance scalability, performance, security, and usability, and you can articulate trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strategic thinking: Ability to think holistically about the long-term impact of your work, guiding technical decisions that align with product and company strategy. You bring clarity to complex, ambiguous problems and help chart the course forward.
• Collaboration and communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create shared understanding across engineering, product, design, and external stakeholders.
• Mentorship and leadership: A passion for growing others whether through direct mentorship, coaching, or by setting examples in technical excellence and pragmatic decision-making. You help raise the bar for the team and build a strong engineering culture.
• Execution in complexity: You break down large, ambiguous problems into tangible, incremental value. Applying strong domain-driven design, you build simple, evolvable architectures that balance speed and learning with resilience and quality.
• AI integration mindset: Curiosity and thoughtfulness in leveraging AI tools and LLMs as force multipliers accelerating delivery and enhancing engineering practices in responsible and scalable ways.
• Values-driven engineering: An interest in topics that extend beyond code, this includes privacy, ethics, security, and how technology can be harnessed for good. You care deeply about the societal impact of the systems you build.

Benefits

• Competitive salary Range: We offer a competitive salary that reflects your skills, experience, and the level of the role.
• Employee share scheme: You’ll own part of a company making a real difference!
• Flexibility: We are hard-working and outcome focused, but recognise there is more to life than work. We promote a healthy work/life blend.
• Shorter work weeks (at full pay): Everyone gets Friday afternoons off, so you can start your weekend early, and do more of whatever it is that makes you happy.
• Health Care Plan: In partnership with Nib, Auror covers 100% of the cost of your individual health insurance plan.
• Focus on mental and physical health: We understand how vital our health is and have policies to support your wellness, including: Wellness Days, and up to three expert sessions paid for every year.
• Family-friendly: We offer comprehensive parental leave and benefits for primary and non-primary caregivers, including a baby bonus and meals delivered to your door.
• Personal growth: We support our team to participate in courses, conferences, or events that will help them develop their skills.
• Team love: We have regular team lunches and social events where most (if not all) activities are during work hours.