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<aside> ⏰ Permanent, full time

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After the announcement of our expansion into the UK, we are looking to hire new engineers into our Wellington based team. 🇳🇿

As part of our growing Engineering team, you’ll play a key role in crafting intuitive, seamless, and engaging user experiences for our customers. You’ll work across the entire front-end development process, from concept to release, collaborating closely with our Product team, Customer Operations teams, and the broader Engineering team to build new features and enhance existing ones. Your work will directly impact how customers interact with our platform, helping us scale while delivering a polished, high-quality experience.

🚀 Responsibilities

• Work closely with customers and teams across the business to spot problems and come up with smart, practical solutions
• Lead by example when it comes to writing clean, reliable code. sharing best practices and helping others do the same
• Own the development of new features, from the initial idea through to launch and beyond
• Write solid, well-tested code and find ways to improve testing across the codebase
• Give thoughtful, constructive code reviews to help your teammates grow and keep our standards high
• Plan and build the architecture for new features, then share your ideas with the team to get their input
• Collaborate with people from all corners of Hnry to build awesome things together
• Support and mentor more junior developers, helping them level up their skills and confidence

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Matt - Head of Engineering

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💪 You will

• You will have at least two years experience building web applications using Javascript, CSS and HTML
• You will have excellent communication and collaboration skills - we work together and succeed as a team
• Be able to take complex problems, break them down, and build robust solutions
• Actively monitor systems, identify problems and propose solutions
• Approach problems with a curious mindset and empathy for the end user, always considering the impact of changes
• Have experience with automated testing
• Enjoy discussions about software/product design and crafting solutions
• Have full working rights in New Zealand

Bonus points for the following:

• Storybook, or other design system tooling, experience
• Ruby on Rails experience, or experience with another web framework
• Experience building large scale systems
• Experience being self-employed (freelancing, contracting etc) in any industry/profession

🫵 How we work

• We follow agile practices, delivering improvements iteratively in small chunks. We track the impact of our work and measure ourselves on results, not the amount of code written.
• We’re growing fast, and are focused on building a well designed, scalable & robust platform. In some areas of the work (e.g. payment processing) there is very little margin for error.
• Our technology platform is built in React, Tailwind, Ruby on Rails, and we also use a bunch of AWS services (via Terraform), Postgres and Docker.
• We have automated tests, continuous deployment, and release to production multiple times per day.
• We review each others code, and set aside time for hacking on experimental features, refactoring and/or learning new things.
• We work hard and finish on time, no crazy hours.

<aside> 💰 Salary banding: $90,000 - $130,000 per annum

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✨ At Hnry, we operate a policy of pay parity across our organisation to ensure that all Hnry staff are fairly and equally compensated based on their contributions and experience. The salary for this role will be determined based on the applicant’s experience✨

How to apply

Does this role sound like a good fit? Complete the **Hnry Job Application Form.**