Slalom_build is a highly scalable, high-velocity Build as a Service firm. We work with clients in a flexible, collaborative, and repeatable methodology to create custom technology solutions for their most impactful initiatives and to accelerate their digital transformation journey. Over 1400 Builders strong, distributed across dynamic cities, our innovation hubs attract the type of people who contribute to thriving teams. By placing Builders in close proximity to clients—as well as their cultural and technology cohorts—we can assure the quality, versatility, and speed that product delivery demands, along with the elasticity and scale to tailor to individual client needs.
We create an inviting and diverse environment where people can unleash their full potential, create innovative projects using cutting-edge technology, and develop modern skills. Our commitment to inclusion actively promotes a broad spectrum of thoughts, opinions, and backgrounds. After launching our Slalom Auckland office in February 2023, we are continuing to grow, and here we have a new opportunity for you to start your journey with Slalom_build and help us shape the future.
Senior Engineer, Software Engineering
Software Engineering capability at Slalom-build brings our clients’ vision to life! We use modern tools and techniques to build secure, highly scalable software products that handle our clients' most innovative and strategic work. We follow Agile practices when building software components and applications that utilize modern frameworks and cloud scale in order to accelerate our clients' business.
Our software engineers are committed to the craft of collaboratively building high-quality and sustainable software products that delight our clients and their customers by utilizing emerging tools in an ever-changing technological landscape.
We build full-stack solutions across a range of established and emerging technologies and techniques according to the needs of our clients, including:
- Front-end applications targeting native mobile and modern web platforms. Examples include React, Angular and Vue.
- APIs and back-end services built using emerging frameworks and architectural patterns. Examples include Node, Typescript, Java and .Net Core, Golang
- Hosting, Generative AI, and application services provided by industry-leading cloud providers. Examples include AWS, Azure and GCP.
- Operational efficiencies leveraging modern ecosystems and automated build and deployment pipelines.
- Collaborative build practices, including Generative AI tooling, allow our teams to be agile and responsive to our clients’ needs.
What will you do?
You will focus on building high-quality software as part of a collaborative product engineering team, using your skills to own the development of larger components. By regularly reviewing and contributing to the refinement of your team's work, you’ll align to project teams working alongside other talented software engineers and architects.
You will lend creativity to solving software problems using core development tools and techniques.
You will contribute to the entire software stack of the components that you own—aligning data, API, and UI components to the norms of the rest of the software product. All while experimenting with new technologies and developing skills across the stack and contributing to the positive flow of your team. Specifically, you will:
- Write high-quality application code using emerging technologies and frameworks primarily targeting cloud-based ecosystems.
- Collaborate with other software development capabilities to iteratively develop, validate, and operate software at scale using agile techniques.
- Verify components at the unit and integration level using proven validation techniques.
- Develop supporting scripts and routines that automate procedures and help maintain components in production environments.
What will you bring?
- Recent, practical experience using a modern programming language. Ideally, we seek someone experienced in AWS (essential), React (essential) and JAVA.
- Experience developing multi-platform software utilising various programming environments and tools.
- Passionate about crafting and delivering high-quality products that meet and exceed customer expectations.
- A passion for ongoing learning and enhancing technical expertise.
- Strong problem-solving and software triage skills with the ability to work cross-functionally in a constantly evolving work environment.
Our Values
Our culture and values reflect each individual _Builder. We are dedicated to encouraging workplace diversity and ensuring all our people, from any background can contribute to their full potential. We wish to build a team that echoes the diversity of the communities we serve, and our values are an active part of our every-day, guiding our decisions.
What keeps us here?
There’s work - life and life- life. And we think it’s time they got together for good. Calibrated to your needs and to your life, we want every builder to be happy, healthy, supported, and inspired. Every day. For this reason, we offer health and well-being, learning and growth, and tech perks (to name a few). We also provide a welcoming place to connect and share experiences and perspectives through our Employee Resource Groups. So that every builder feels safe to be themselves everywhere.
Slalom prides itself on helping our team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in our team members with competitive and innovative benefit programs and services that meet the unique needs of our diverse workforce.