Software Development Engineer (Intermediate)

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You've moved beyond tutorials and junior guidance. You've shipped features and debugged production issues. Now you're ready for more ownership - and more impact. We're hiring an Intermediate Software Engineer who can take meaningful pieces of product, build them well, and ship them confidently in a collaborative, high-trust environment. This isn't a "close tickets and move on" role. This is a "build things that matter" role. You'll be responsible for delivering business value by designing and developing high-quality software in a highly collaborative environment. You'll report to a Senior member of the Engineering team, and be trusted to self-manage your day-to-day work. You will sit in that critical middle layer of engineering - capable, accountable, and growing into senior-level thinking. The Work You'll spend your time building, improving, and collaborating. Design & Development Develop clean, efficient, scalable software Build tools and applications that ship regularly into production Contribute to solution design, algorithms, and feature architecture Automate repetitive tasks using scripting and tooling Architect and build moderately complex software solutions You won't just implement requirements - you'll shape solutions. Quality & Ownership Review and debug code (yours and others') Perform validation and verification testing Identify risks and problems early Suggest improvements to design and approach Participate in on-call support (shared responsibility for reliability) You'll take initiative. If something needs fixing, you fix it - or you raise it. Collaboration You'll work closely with Product Managers, UX & Design, QA, Site Reliability Engineering and our Engineering Leaders and Tech Leads. You'll communicate progress, blockers, and risks clearly, in both technical and business-impact terms. You'll also contribute to: Refining engineering culture Technical discussions and trade-offs Recruitment (technical screens and selling the vision) Continuous improvement of our SDLC practices Our Tech Stack Build high-throughput services in .NET 8 (microservices) alongside a battle-tested .NET Framework 4.8 monolith processing billions in giving Design event-driven pipelines with Kinesis and RabbitMQ that bridge legacy and modern domains reliably. Own microservices that solve real business problems, think payments, communications, third-party integrations etc. Solve real scale and data integrity challenges in a secure multi-tenant architecture serving thousands of churches. Deliver production-ready software with strong CI/CD, AWS infrastructure, and deep operational telemetry. Grow your skills through hands-on migration work-modernising legacy code while keeping production humming. Why you should care Intermediate engineers are the engine room of great product teams. They turn intent into impact. You'll: See your work used by real customers Influence feature design early Grow toward senior-level impact Help shape engineering culture Work in an environment where quality actually matters This is a role for someone who wants to become exceptional, not just comfortable. If you're someone who: Has 3+ years building multi-user web/mobile/cloud products Cares deeply about user experience Thinks in scalable systems, not short-term hacks Self-manages tasks, time, and expectations Brings new ideas from industry trends Shares knowledge generously Talks about outcomes, not just output If you care about clean systems, strong collaboration, and shipping software that makes a difference, let's talk! Pushpay is a high-growth New Zealand SaaS business that is spread between offices in Auckland, NZ and the United States. We help organisations and communities come together and stay connected through our suite of mobile apps, management software and giving technology. Our teams of Software Engineers, SRE's, QA's, UX and Product Managers work closely together to deliver value to our customers as the leading provider of mobile apps and giving technology to churches, schools, and nonprofits. We love our culture. If you join us, there will be lots of mutual respect, brainstorming, idea generations, blameless postmortems, brainfood learning sessions, and recognition for your accomplishments and impact on our product. You will be heard, your opinion understood, your input valued, and your knowledge respected as you work with a team of high-calibre people with a drive to do-it-well.

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