Staff Engineer – Remote within New Zealand at Fuel50 Full Time

Join Fuel50 and make a significant impact on our product and company with your technical expertise and leadership skills.

Fuel50 is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to join our Engineering Team in New Zealand. In this role, you will be responsible for making significant technical contributions, providing technical leadership, and mentoring the engineering team. Your main focus will be on software development, architectural oversight, setting technical direction, and tackling some of our most challenging problems hands-on. This role reports to a Technical Team Lead.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work on projects such as rearchitecting code, solving scaling issues, and implementing new technologies for features and bug fixes.

• Taking initiative and ownership of work and technical challenges that have lots of ambiguity and little guidance.
• Write CI/CD pipelines, RFCs, and engineering standards, and improve processes including QA.
• Develop technical specifications and implementation plans for various features and bug fixes.

• Occasional non-business hours calls to support global customers.

• 8+ years of software industry experience with expertise in SaaS architecture and technologies such as Java, Angular, MySQL, CI/CD, Docker, and Linux.

• Strong attention to detail, passion for engineering excellence, and automation.

• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical inputs to a team.

• Excellent communication skills to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical staff.
• Strong business understanding to transform business and product objectives into practical software solutions.

• Ability to tackle challenges like scaling, high availability, observability, and monitoring.

• Ability to determine a pragmatic use of microservices and automation.
• Passion for breaking work into small pull requests and embracing iteration.

• Experience with architectural reviews, scoping sessions, and writing technical requirement briefs.

• Strong technical leadership skills, coaching abilities, and building relationships with senior staff.

• Understanding of the “big picture” from infrastructure to database, backend, and frontend.

• Participate in a culture of continuous feedback with your reports and manager.

• Willingness to travel to the Takapuna (Auckland) office quarterly for planning and workshops.

Who are we?
Here at Fuel50, people are at the forefront of our values and our purpose. We support companies through creating an encouraging, vibrant, and supportive people experience with our world leading talent marketplace. Our award-winning AI driven talent marketplace focuses on ensuring retention of staff, creating new career pathways within their organisations, employee engagement, and internal talent mobility to name a few.

All Fuellies are a core part of growing our culture and making Fuel50 an inspirational and amazing place to work. Some additional benefits are:

• Day off on your birthday, your Fuel50 anniversary and a company wide celebration day.
• A “Refuel Day” once a quarter to relax and refuel.
• Flexible working hours.
• Employee Stock Options Plan (ESOP).
• Remote working and flexible working times – we’re very supportive of school commitments, traveling in off-peak hours, looking after family and attending to life’s events.
• Investing in you with career and development planning, using our very own Fuel50 software and online Fuellie University.
• A very progressive parental leave policy – get extra flexibility and time off on top of what your local government already mandates.
• Comprehensive fully subsidised Health Insurance with Southern Cross.
• Family and friends pizza nights once a month (at our HQ in Takapuna) – bring your best mate, significant other, kids, or yourself for pizza, table tennis, and pool.

What is it like to be a Fuellie?

We know that having the right people with the right attitude and behaviour is a big part of what makes us successful.
Living our values is an important part of being successful in this role.

• We have a culture around continuous and respectful feedback and recognition – be part of a team working towards a common goal and helping each other every step of the way.
• We have #SuperheroAwards at quarterly planning meetings and spontaneous recognition and shout-outs across the business.
• We’ll have your back when you need help – your colleagues want to see you succeed and work hard to help you do so.
• We work hard and deliver amazing results to our clients – when you see our amazing feedback, you’ll be proud to be a Fuellie.

Application Process

If this sounds like you, then please apply. If you’re not sure you’re ready or perhaps you don’t meet all requirements yet, please apply anyway. We’ll review every application that we get.

This role is based in New Zealand, candidates must hold the relevant right to work in NZ i.e. Citizenship or a work visa at the time of application.