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Software Engineer

Elephant Ventures
NZ wide
Full Time
Applications close:
Posted 2 years ago

Join EV's NZ presence with an amazing diverse global team, and a strong suite of dependable innovation best practices.

  • Remote-first, 4-day work week
  • Profit sharing
  • Inclusive and diverse workplace

About Elephant Ventures

We are Elephant Ventures, a growing innovation consultancy with teams in the US, Philippines, New Zealand, Kenya, and Brazil. We help people go from early stage innovation all the way through market traction, typically within 3-6 months!

Our sweet spots are lean product development and data engineering, so if you're a strong engineer, product owner, or experience designer let's connect!  We pursue individuals with broad skill sets, with an emphasis on collaboration, creativity, and a track record of tackling big opportunities & challenges.

You'll fit right in with the Phunt herd if you…

  • Like working with people who take the time to understand and help each other
  • Appreciate the power of agile & scrum to build effective, high morale teams
  • Enjoy variety and exposure to multiple market segments, from healthcare & finance, to government & social impact
  • Want to always keep learning

Here are some examples of interesting recent projects: A crypto arbitrage hedge fund, a telemedicine app, intelligent data pipelines feeding an interactive dashboard, a white label banking SDK, and an ML-powered makeup shade matching tool.

Fun fact: Every now and again we turn on our venture foundry to spin up new products & startups! (Check out Ultranauts.co as a great example!)

 

About This Role

As an Elephant Ventures Software Engineer you will on-board to EV’s rigorous and exciting full-stack, DevOps-oriented engineering practice. You will join your fellow engineers in a highly team-oriented, truly agile (Scrum) environment, where “dependable innovation” are our watch words. You will work on challenging projects in a diverse range of business sectors and scales of operation, from startups to large enterprises. Most of all, you will be constantly learning and contributing to EV’s ever-evolving innovation practice!

NOTE: We are open to candidates from all across NZ as we are 100% remote.

About You

The ideal candidate is a Software Engineer who’s ready for the next challenge. Advanced interpersonal skills are a must as you’ll be interacting with clients and collaborating with internal and external teams. If you are a Senior Software Engineer, this includes mentoring teams.
Core Attributes

  • A passion to learn and advance your self-education
  • Strong sense of responsibility and initiative
  • Self-starter who takes initiative for improvement
  • Passion for excellence at every level
  • Ability to work both independently and in collaborative teams to build software applications according to the direction set by the technical lead

Responsibilities

  • Own & execute EV best engineering practices as a dependable member of an EV project team.
  • Observe Agile Scrum best practices.
  • Train in Scrum and pass the Scrum PSM Scrum Master test.
  • Actively participate and contribute to Project Team sprint story planning.
  • Actively participate and contribute to Project Team sprint retro.
  • Embrace EV full-stack technical skills listed in EV Engineering Skills Matrix (below).

For Senior Software Engineers, in addition, you will be responsible for:

  • Provide technical leadership for your teams and projects.
  • Authoring tech approaches.
  • Support estimation and roadmapping.
  • Collaboration in architectural design.

Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in a relevant field
  • Desirable: At least 3 years on-the-job software engineering experience (at least 5 years for Senior Software Engineers).

Engineering Skills

  • Full Stack: both front end and back end JavaScript. Python a plus.
  • HTML5, JavaScript, NodeJS, Angular or React, REST APIs, Responsive Web
  • General familiarity with DevOps and Git. Docker a plus. AWS experience a plus.
  • Detail oriented experience as a Web Developer creating React and/or Angular based solutions
  • Understanding of HTTP protocol and how server-side code is processed asynchronously on the client
  • Ability to translate wireframes and designs into functional web apps
  • Basic database skills -- SQL / NoSQL
  • AWS, python, pyspark, Spark, pandas, kedro
Contact details:
[email protected]