Software Engineer

Your Title: Software Engineer

Job Location: Christchurch, NZ

Our Department: Forestry

Are you a Software Engineer/Developer who wants to be at the heart of analysing, designing, and programming cutting-edge software enhancements and new products in a collaborative environment?

What You Will Do

Your expertise will contribute to diverse applications supporting our Forestry sector customers, spanning from materials management and financial management to HRIS, mobile apps, and desktop applications. Using the latest programming languages and technologies, you'll write code, conduct testing, and perform debugging to ensure flawless applications. You will interact with users to define system requirements and necessary modifications.

This will have you doing the following:

• Analyse, design, program, debug, and modify software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, cloud-based or Internet-related computer programs

• Using current programming language and technologies, write code, complete programming, and perform testing and debugging of applications 

• Complete documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance 

• Be responsible for the full life cycle software development activities including new product releases, upgrades, functional enhancements, defect resolution, and performance improvements

• Partner with QA and Operations to test and deploy changes to a product set up for continuous deployment

• Build scalable and sustainable solutions, utilising engineering best practices in an agile, team-oriented, and collaborative environment.

What you'll bring?

Along with being a team player, with strong work prioritization skills and a collaborative communication and working style, you will also possess these skills:

• BE/BTech/ME/MTech/M.S. in Computer Science Engineering or a related field

• Professional experience in delivering quality software in a collaborative environment

• Experience in iOS and Android development (such as Xamarin Forms, Maui)

• Experience maintaining a high bar for code quality, testing, and automation while finding opportunities to continuously make improvements

• Ability to write business and technical specification documents that convey complex analysis and solutions clearly and concisely

• Knowledge and experience with interactive/real-time application development

• Open to working with globally distributed teams across time zones

• Prior experience working on software platforms and microservices architecture products

• Demonstrated ability to analyse and interpret complex business processes and systems

• Maintain a DevOps mindset, promoting cloud-oriented solutions while implementing and supporting monitoring, alerting, CI/CD pipelines as well as the team’s Cloud infrastructure.

About Your Location

Based at Trimble’s NZ headquarters in Christchurch, New Zealand (handily located on the Little River Link Cycleway), home to over 350 Trimble employees, enjoy free parking, securely covered bike sheds, an onsite gym, showers, an active social club, and a great team environment where people love working with leading technology solutions.

At Trimble, you'll find the inspiration and opportunity to be yourself and thrive. The global community of Team Trimble, including more than 400 people in New Zealand, is passionate about bringing new ideas and innovations to life and building a better, more sustainable future.

Please Note: Only applicants who are legally entitled to work in New Zealand will be considered. 

About Our Forestry Division

As the leading provider of business solutions for timber management and wood product companies, we help companies take advantage of current technology to achieve operational efficiencies so they can make better-informed business decisions. Our systems can manage one small aspect or the entire forestry cycle from silviculture, harvesting, procuring, hauling, consuming, inventory, or selling logs and wood by-products.

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