Intermediate Software Engineer @ Hnry

Salary banding: $90,000 - $100,000 per annum

How to apply

Does this role sound like a good fit? Complete the Hnry Job Application Form. Wellington, New Zealand Permanent, full time Hnry’s Engineering team is growing again, and we are excited to welcome a couple of new engineers to join our high-performing team.

You will play a key role as part of our growing Engineering team ensuring that our product is accurate in all calculations for customers. You will work to build a polished experience for our customers while also scaling the systems required to operate the business. You’ll be expected to participate in the development of new features, from concept through to release working collaboratively with our Product team, Customer Operations function, and other members of the Hnry team.

🚀 Responsibilities

• Engaging with customers and all members of the business to actively identify problems and propose solutions
• Following best practices in building robust and reliable software and encouraging the same among colleagues
• Take responsibility for delivering functionality from concept through to production release and post-release maintenance
• Produce work that meets the expected level of test coverage and improve test coverage across the existing codebase
• Provide detailed code reviews to colleagues, sharing your knowledge and ensuring that standards are maintained
• Help design the architecture of new features and present this back to the team for feedback
• Collaborate with and support other members of the wider Hnry team
• Act as a mentor and provide support to Junior developers on the team unnamed (2).png IMG_8284.jpg

💪 You will

• Have at least two years experience using Ruby
• Have excellent communication and collaboration skills — we work together and succeed as a team
• Be able to take complex problems, break them down, and build robust solutions
• Actively monitor systems, identify problems and propose solutions
• Approach problems with a curious mindset and empathy for the end user, always considering the impact of changes
• Have experience with automated testing
• Enjoy discussions about software/product design and crafting solutions
• Have full working rights in New Zealand

Bonus points for the following:

• Experience building large scale systems
• Experience being self-employed (freelancing, contracting etc) in any industry/profession

🫵 How we work

• We follow agile practices, delivering improvements iteratively in small chunks. We track the impact of our work and measure ourselves on results, not the amount of code written.
• We’re growing fast, and are focused on building a well designed, scalable & robust platform. In some areas of the work (e.g. payment processing) there is very little margin for error.
• Our technology platform is built in Ruby on Rails, and we also use a bunch of AWS services (via Terraform), Postgres, Docker, and a little bit of React.
• We have automated tests, continuous deployment, and release to production multiple times per day.
• We review each others code, and set aside time for hacking on experimental features, refactoring and/or learning new things.
• We work hard and finish on time, no crazy hours. unnamed (10).png Matt - Head of Engineering