The Role
Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable microservices and applications. Participate in backlog refinement, code reviews, troubleshooting production issues, and collaborate with DevOps for CI/CD and automation.
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Ko wai mātou - About us
Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us! With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.
Our Support Centre is 1,000+ people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.”
Te Tūranga – About the role
As a Software Engineer you’ll be building scalable, robust and high-performing software services and applications using latest architectural patterns and methodologies while collaborating in a team of engineers, business experts and technical leaders. You’ll work towards high test automation coverage by writing highly testable code.
To do this, some of what you’ll do is:
· Participate in designing, developing, maintaining and implementing solutions that meet approved standards and specifications.
· Understand business needs to translate them into software designs of components and subsystems.
· Perform code reviews to improve code quality, to reduce security concerns and to ensure we own a healthy codebase.
· Troubleshoot application production issues by performing application analysis, debugging, code modifications and functional testing.
· Participate in technical refinement of user stories, backlog grooming, spiking, proof-of-concepts.
· Perform regular code reviews within teams and across the organisation to ensure we maintain a healthy code base.
· Collaborate with the DevOps team to ensure a high level of CI/CD automation.
He kōrero mōu - About you
You’re an experienced software engineer with strong skills in writing clean, testable code. You contribute to healthy engineering practices, and enjoy collaborating in agile teams. You’re proactive, pragmatic, and eager to learn, mentor others, and help deliver reliable, scalable solutions that meet business needs.
You’ll also have:
· A Bachelor’s degree in a software development-related subject
· 3+ years of professional experience in Java Springboot and NodeJS programming.
· Experience developing and managing microservices using a container-based architecture using Docker and Kubernetes.
Ngā painga - What we offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits:
· Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs
· Southern Cross health insurance
· Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
· Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
· Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
We’re interested in your diverse experiences, your strengths and how adaptable you are to learn and grow. If you don't meet every requirement, but feel this role could be for you, we’d still love to hear from you!
Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.
We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.
If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to Recruitment.Foodstuffs@foodstuffs.co.nz. Accommodations could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
Are you ready to be part of our bunch – apply now!
Top Skills
Ci/Cd
Docker
Java
Kubernetes
Microservices
Node.js
Spring Boot
Test Automation
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The Company
What We Do
Foodies is a cooperative, made up of 22,000 kiwis just like you, working hard to make sure New Zealanders get more out of life. Chances are you have been one of our customers, we serve more than 1.4 million kiwis each week through our PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and Gilmours stores.
We have more than 350 stores up and down the North Island, from Houhora in the far north, to Island Bay in the coolest little capital in the world. And we have support centres in Auckland, Palmerston North and Wellington.
Check out www.foodstuffs.careers to hear our people talk about what they do, why they do it, and to hear about some of the coolest career opportunities in NZ.
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