Principal Software Engineer

Kia ora!

At Air New Zealand, our Digital team is dedicated to realizing the company's full potential through initiatives such as transitioning to modernized microservices and cloud infrastructure. We have company-wide support and a strong connection between our work and our promise to deliver exceptional experiences. 

Role Overview: 

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and supporting next-generation technologies that enhance our applications and data integrations. Our digital solutions must operate at a massive scale and extend well beyond just booking flights. 

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with strong experience in API & Integration who will bring fresh ideas and expertise from various areas. In this role, you will provide thought leadership and technical guidance across the engineering team. Your deep understanding of the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, combined with your ability to lead strategic initiatives, will help guide the team and significantly impact other teams and business outcomes. 

What We Look For: 

• Experience presenting high-level technical designs and architecture to both technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Proven experience designing, building, and operating large-scale web applications. 

• Proven ability to lead and deliver multiple projects over time. 

• Experience with API gateway and/or middleware integration, including testing and support. 

• Familiarity with products such as AWS, Azure, Kafka, Mule, IBM WebSphere is an advantage. 

• Prior experience in development, testing, deployment, maintaining, and improving software. 

• Self-motivation and a willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done. 

• Adaptability and a willingness to thrive in a fast-moving environment. 

• A strong work ethic and the ability to thrive both in a team environment and working alone. 

• Experience working in an Agile environment. 

• Participation in an on-call roster is required. 

Why Join Us? 

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will work on initiatives critical to realizing our full potential. You will have opportunities to collaborate with experienced engineers, DevOps professionals, SREs, and developers as part of cross-functional teams. You will be exposed to a variety of tools and technologies, allowing you to shape our way of working. 

We welcome individuals with a broad set of attributes and technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on our global customers. This role involves managing integration platforms, APIs lifecycle, developing standards and processes to support integration, cloud infrastructure, and pushing the limits of what technology can achieve. We embrace CI/CD, Automation, and Cloud. 

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."