Software Engineer
About the role
Why you would like it:
- Supercharge your growth. Stretch projects and close collaboration with senior engineers accelerate learning—no empty promises, just real exposure and impact.
- Work #human. Hybrid by design: async, outcome-focused, with flexible hours, prime offices for collaboration, and a generous wellbeing budget.
- Kiwi-founded pride. Help a bold, playful brand bring delight to a space once ruled by dry, purely-functional tools.
- Global collaboration. Most days you’ll pair with teammates on two-plus continents, gaining diverse perspectives and building truly global features.
- Real-world impact. Your code powers life for 4 million+ small businesses in 180 countries.
Potentia is supporting the next growth phase of a fast-scaling, product-led technology company engineering teams next growth wave - driven by recent acquisition, innovation in AI, and workflow automation. Join a squad that deploys in days, not months, and thrives on adaptability, systems thinking, customer focus, and cross-functional influence. One sprint you may refine real-time payments; the next, elevate an ML-powered reconciliation engine. Where else can you get that kind of diverse exposure? Dont just think of this a job opportunity, it truly has the chance of unlocking your career trajectory.
Company Profile:
Our client is a global SaaS company born in Aotearoa, now supporting over 4 million+ small businesses across 100+ countries. They give small firms big-company tech and ecosystem and support community that brings strategic advantage to their business. It’s a values-led high performing organisation and you will see this DNA in every part of the organisation.
The Role:
- Build scalable cloud services and intuitive React UIs; automate everything you can.
- Write automated tests for function, performance, and security.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues, driving root-cause fixes.
- Contribute to architecture talks, peer reviews, and shared engineering standards.
- Keep CI/CD pipelines cloud infrastructure humming; help refine agile flow.
- Strong skills in C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, React frontends, or similar, plus constant curiosity for new tech.
- Confident debugging across the stack and building cloud infra.
- Practised with TDD, trunk-based dev, and secure-by-design basics.
- Collaborator & assertive self-starter—bias to action, comfortable in fast-scaling environments.
- Adaptable systems-thinker with strong customer orientation and influence skills.
- Enjoy feedback, give it kindly, and see every retro as a chance to level up.
This is the kind of opportunity is worth giving a go, even if you don't meet all the stack requiments on day one. The career benefits and learnings you can take away from joining a global software unicorn are invaluable for your own personal growth.
Apply now and we'll review your experience and see if we can help 'make it happen' with you.
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