The Company is a globally distributed software product company. They have an R+D centre based in Auckland and are looking to recruit a Principal .Net Software Engineer to take on a key role within their growing team of software engineers.

What is a principal developer
The principal developer role is incredibly important within the engineering space.

They provide guidance to development teams and are involved in all technical aspects of projects.

A principal works as part of a small elite strategy team and engages with the larger team.

We expect a principle to have at least 10 years of experience in software development with the .Net ecosystem.

Candidate should have good problem-solving, collaboration and communication skills.

Maintain a good familiarity with frameworks, software development methodologies, and approaches.

They promote continual learning, and seek to improve the skillset of engineers, and increase value.

As part of this they champion best practices, and coding standards.

Duties / Responsibilities

• Prototyping, designing, coding, and debugging software
• Improving the performance of existing software
• Providing mentorship and training to other engineers
• Recommending new technologies that can help increase productivity
• Overseeing technical aspects of software engineering projects
• Attending team meetings to discuss projects, brainstorm ideas and put forward solutions to any issues.

Skills

• Deeply experienced development skills in the .Net ecosystem.
• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Well experienced in scaling SaaS product to global markets
• Strong verbal and communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Problem solving skills to analyse, debug and fix technical issues

Some competencies include:

• Champions and advocates code review standards and best practices.

• Strong analytical skills
• Capable of reframing complex problems into simpler, approachable challenges.
• Advocates for incremental delivery of business value
• Takes ownership of "complex" challenges and helps guide development teams to solving them.

• Actively involved in architecture & solution design
• Avoids unnecessary complexity
• Designs for maintainability
• Lead small cross functional teams in designing new innovations to mvp level.
• Able to balance between short- & long-term needs.

• Highest level of written and spoken English skills
• Able to communicate value to a range of technical and non-technical audiences
• Able to ask clarifying questions to help bring clarity to vague or unrefined technical statements.
• Able to bring people on a journey as to why a given approach might be better than another.

• Actively staying at the frontline on learning emerging industry trends, new technologies and cloud services, latest versions of frameworks, processes, and methodologies.
• Able to distil this information and identify where they might be applied.

• Gives space for others bring dissenting opinions to the table.
• Able to facilitate the conversation to lead to mutual agreement on technical solutions.

• Able to build a solid understanding of the holistic solution / ecosystem and how they integrate with each other.

• Effective at mentoring and coaching different levels (junior, intermediate, senior)
• Evangelizes best practices to everyone

• Coding (reading and writing code .Net )
• Problem solving
• Architecture / Solution Design
• Communication & Verbal skills
• Learning
• Meetings
• Product
• Coaching and mentoring

As a global company they are able to offer opportunities for career development locally and internationally. They are happy to consider overseas candidates who have the skills and background fit.

A salary of up to $240k+ is offered together with a range of benefits.

This role is based in Auckland, New Zealand and is 3 days pw in the office.

Apply now to find out more or call Barry or Craig on +64274992733