Lead Software Engineer

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About UsWe're a not-for-profit organisation on a mission to transform ourselves and empower New Zealanders to live their healthiest lives.

With almost a million members in our care, we are New Zealand's leading health insurer.

We have an unstoppable focus, delivering outstanding experiences to our members in their time of need.

This is an exciting time to be part of our journey and in return for your extraordinary talent, we'll provide a high performing values-based team environment where people are at our heart.

About The Role

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll drive technical decisions for your squad, turning customer needs into reliable, high-quality software.

This is a hands-on role : code, review, architect, and make smart trade-offs to keep delivery flowing.

What You'll Do

Own engineering quality and delivery speed — ship small, frequent, confident changes.

Build clean, testable, reusable solutions across the stack.

Keep services reliable, observable, and maintainable; pipelines fast and green.

Manage technical health and debt while balancing delivery priorities.

Collaborate with Product, Platform, and Architecture teams to guide decisions.

Coach developers and testers, fostering autonomy and technical craft.

Champion responsible AI use to accelerate development and share insights.

What You'll Bring

Technical depth : Expertise in ASP.NET, React, Angular, NodeJS, JavaScript / TypeScript, .

NET Core, Git, Azure, ADO, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform.

Strong design skills across services and UI, with diagnosability and operability built in.

Testing excellence : Robust unit, contract, API, and component testing; practical E2E approach; experience with ephemeral environments.

Delivery focus : Skilled in CI / CD optimisation, build systems, artifact management, and reducing flakiness.

Solid cloud and platform knowledge—favouring golden paths over bespoke solutions.

Security & reliability : Secure coding, dependency management, secrets handling, least privilege.

Design observable systems with clear SLOs, alerts, and runbooks.

Collaboration & communication : Effective in cross-functional teams, strong at iterative delivery, story slicing, estimation, and risk management.

Guide progress through partnership, not gatekeeping.

Mindset : Curious, open to feedback, and create a safe space for challenging assumptions.

Benefits

Five days of wellbeing leave per year

Health insurance for you and your immediate whanau

Life insurance cover and discounts on pet and travel insurance

Extra parental leave benefits and financial wellbeing support

Participation in workplace wellbeing programme

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