The Opportunity
As a Senior Software Development Engineer at Pushpay, you will be a driving force in building our world-class financial and community platform.
This role is for an experienced engineer who thrives on shipping high-quality, scalable code.
You will own the full life cycle of features, from architectural design to production deployment, ensuring the stability and security of our PCI-compliant system.
What You'll Be Responsible For
Delivering business value by designing and developing high-quality software in a highly collaborative environment. Raising the quality, and velocity of other team members.
Main activities
- Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
- Produce value to the business by regularly shipping robust, high quality features into the production environment
- Review and debug code
- Understand and exhibit the company's core values ()
- Communicating progress, blockers and risks
- Identify problems and risks in your own work, and that of others.
You can suggest improvements to design and approach
- Be aware of, and contribute to refining, the engineering lore and custom (aka.
culture, policies, and procedures)
- Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
- Take the initiative to identify and/or fix issues before being assigned them
- Recruitment of new Engineers (sales pitch, technical screens)
- Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
- Be highly aware of the profound security and compliance ramifications of the nature of our business (specifically our PCI compliance requirements)
- An active contributor to a Pushpay guild
- Develop high-quality software design and architecture
- Break down larger pieces of work into small, well-scoped pieces for other team members
- End-to-end responsibility on features of increasing complexity
- Coaching and mentoring more junior or new engineers unfamiliar with the tech or processes to not only understand what they are doing, but also why they are doing it.
- Participate in on-call support of the Pushpay products, if on the on-call roster
- You will be expected to be involved in the development of software and tooling (code, algorithms, designs, processes and practices) which may produce intellectual property that belongs to Pushpay
- You are expected to work with Engineers, Quality assistance Personnel, Product Personnel and other parts of the business to review requirements and proposed solutions, and provide input into those processes (which may include, but is not limited to, ideation, algorithms, processes and feature design).
This work may produce intellectual property that belongs to Pushpay
Key skills
- Strong passion for developing new software that is scalable and incredibly user-friendly
- Fastidious in your pursuit of the best user experience possible
- Keep an eye on industry trends and technology and bring new ideas to the table
- Practical commercial knowledge of, and high proficiency with:
- React Native or native iOS and Android development
- Writing maintainable and testable JavaScript code
- Working with designers to create rich and modern apps
- Experience with a static type checker such as TypeScript or Flow
- Apple and Google app releases and management (API and/or web console)
- Familiarity with API web service design
- DVCS for source control (preferably Git)
- Some variety of bug tracking system - e.g. Jira
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment practices and tooling
- Capable of architecting and building complex solutions in software
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Self-manage your tasks, time and the expectations you have set
- Generous with your time and knowledge, sharing and collaborating with others
- Discusses work in both technical and business-impact terms
Internal contacts
Product Managers, UX and Design team, Product Marketing, Data Team, Site Reliability Engineering Team, QA, On Call team, Customer Care Team, Delivery Manager, Engineering Managers, Tech Lead, Engineering Team Members
External contacts
Conferences, User Groups, Integration Partners
Typical experience
- 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience; “relevant” being: Developing mobile applications using React Native or native iOS or Android development
- Applicable tertiary qualifications.
About Pushpay & Why Join Us
Pushpay is a high-growth New Zealand SaaS business dedicated to building world-class giving and engagement technology for churches and non-profits, strengthening communities globally.
We offer a rewarding, inclusive culture.
We value you and your career:
Training & Growth: $3,000 annual training/conference allowance for personal growth.
Family Support: Generous paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, ensuring full pay for annual holidays when returning from leave (no leave override).
Flexibility: We support a healthy work-life balance with flexible hours and a hybrid work model that typically includes two days a week working from home.
Well-being & Community: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), free annual flu shots, paid Volunteer Time Off (16 hours VTO per year), and unlimited snacks, drinks, and coffee.
Accrual from Day One: Sick leave accrues immediately—no 6-month wait period.If this sounds like your kind of role, we’d love for you to apply today - let’s go do amazing things together.
If you're passionate about code, enjoy simplifying complex problems, and are looking for a role that directly impacts our core business and culture, we want to hear from you!
Note on Eligibility:
Please note: To be considered for this vacancy you must either currently reside in New Zealand, or if currently off-shore, be a New Zealand citizen, permanent resident or resident with valid travel conditions.
Please submit your resume/CV in PDF format to prevent formatting errors upon submission.
After applying, we highly encourage you to check your spam/junk folder regularly for communication from the Pushpay People team.
Please note that we do not accept applications from recruiters or agencies for this position.