Full Stack Developer - Snr (Payments - fixed term)

At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwi to create the life they want. Whether it's the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or growing their business, or the smaller things, like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff. At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwi look first.

You'll work within the Payments team to deliver first class code and solutions for Trade Me's Anti-Money Laundering / Counter Funding of Terrorism (AML/CFT) solution. You'll assist in the creation, maintenance, and delivery of technical solutions that enhance Trade Me's core products and software systems. You will follow good development practices and be expected to participate in opportunities for growth and development - through training, mentoring, and asking questions of those around you. You'll look at the wider picture and take interest in your squad work, the work around you, and how these fit into Trade Me as a whole.

This is a fixed term (9 months) role ** Here is what you can expect from this role:**

• Mentor and coach junior members of the team.
• Find and address challenges with our processes and practices.
• Find opportunities to apply new, innovative technologies to solve our business problems.
• Design, estimate and plan the work the squad needs to do.
• Write code and unit tests to deliver on the goals of your squad.
• Have technical ownership and accountability for projects within your squad.
• Peer review of code authored by other developers.
• Build, test, release, and monitor the code you ship to the production environment.
• Document your work as you go so that others can help maintain or build on it further.
• Get involved in discussions and initiatives to improve the Trade Me code base and technical design.

What you will bring to our team:

• 5+ years' experience in similar development roles.
• Sound C#/.Net development experience (or similar language)in a RESTful API context, and experience consuming APIs using front-end JavaScript frameworks.
• Familiarity with pub/sub eventing architecture.
• Experience with DevOps processes and tools.
• Understanding of relational databases and SQL, in particular PostgreSQL.
• A good understanding of OO design patterns, and when to use them.
• Appreciation of SOLID principles, elegant and testable code and what that looks like in a constantly changing codebase with a history.
• Understanding of Continuous Integration / Delivery goals and methodology.
• A good team player and trusted advisor, able to provide support and advice to others with a positive attitude and a willingness to collaborate.
• Organised and comfortable with self-directed work; adaptable and can cope with change in a fast-moving environment.
• An eye for detail; willing to work through the little things to make our web experience faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain.
• Propensity for personal motivation, initiative, adaptability and the willingness to face challenges head-on.
• Sound technical skill and in-depth knowledge of best practices in application development and design patterns

You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:

#Flexibility: Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance. We value team connection and come together in person on Monday and at least one other day a week.

#Wellness: Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way.

#Social: Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more.

#Learning: Whether it's on the job, formal training, mentoring or something else, you'll grow with us from Day 1.

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the "Why".

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.