Development Lead - Wellington

iPayroll is extremely proud to be a pioneer in cloud-based payroll solutions in New Zealand. With the advancement of technology many things have changed over the years but one thing that has not changed is our commitment to deliver a quality cloud-based payroll solution. To achieve that, we have put together a great team where people learn and grow whilst they develop product to keep us ahead of the game and best of all, they have fun doing it. We currently have an opening for a Development Lead to join our growing team of happy, busy, opinionated (in the best way), motivated individuals who are committed to delivering exciting new things and delivering them together. The primary focus of this role is to lead our Backend Development team. You will support the team in their work while also having the ability to ‘get your hands dirty’ and lead from the front when required. You will assist the CTO in reviewing the tools and technologies that your team use, to ensure currency and feed into the Technology roadmap for prioritising upgrades. In addition to mentoring and supporting your teams’ professional development, you will also keep up to speed to with our various projects – assisting with scoping, estimation, delivery, and troubleshooting issues/incidents as required. You will lead our Development Community of Practice, regularly facilitating knowledge sharing sessions and showcases with the wider technology teams. Ideally you will be:

• Able to work within Agile development environments, especially Kanban, Scrum and Lean methodologies
• Passionate about software development with a track record in delivery
• A people focused person with natural leadership abilities
• Confident and experienced in mentoring others in development techniques and practices
• A strong communicator with proven problem-solving skills
• Excellent with your time management and prioritisation of tasks

And you also need to have:

• At least 2 years’ proven experience in leading people
• Solid Java development experience using the Spring framework
• Experience in building and utilising modern RESTFul APIs
• Knowledge and experience of AWS and working with CI/CD development pipelines
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL or similar data platforms
• Experience with Hibernate
• Keen interest and experience with container technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
• A growth mindset

We are a fantastic group of people to work alongside. The successful applicant will be a people person; a natural leader who favours collaboration and inspires others. Finally, why us? We might be a small team but we have a big heart and a big client base. We have over 11,000 customers across New Zealand and Australia, something we are very proud of. We are also New Zealand’s leading PAYE intermediary paying many thousands of employees year after year. We are constantly looking at ways to improve and protect the service that we offer our clients and as such, our Technology team are involved in a variety of different projects and pieces of work and often have several balls in the air. You will find yourself sharing knowledge with a team that likes to hear and share opinions, likes to listen and learn and likes to grow. We encourage our team to learn from each other and to take advantage of the onsite training we have available to help everyone develop their skills. We also don’t have layers and layers of management; we very much work together as a team and the Managing Director works in the business and is always open to ideas from those that actually do the doing. Ours is a business where your voice can and will be heard. If this sounds like you, apply today! Note: We are an office first place of business, and you must reside in Wellington and be able to work from our central city office to be considered for this role. All applicants for this position must have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa. #J-18808-Ljbffr