At ASB, we're all about doing what we can to help our customers get "One Step Ahead" by giving them the tools they need to manage their lives and plans for their families and future. Our products don't just serve ads or stream movies - they underpin our economy and touch people's lives.
If you've always wanted to apply your skills to a large-scale Kiwi success story, then today is your lucky day - as we are on the lookout for a Software Consultant to join us in our Cloud Enablement platform.
The Identity & Integration platform delivers reliable and innovative technology solutions at pace, leveraging our thought leadership and expertise. We are responsive, proactive, and transparent. Our goal is to have 'always on' capabilities, tomorrow's tech at tomorrow's pace, make things simple, be more awesome and embrace disruption and innovation and to enable our people to innovate at pace; simply and securely.
About the role:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Apache Kafka, Confluent and Datastax technologies to join the squad and contribute to building new distributed event-streaming platform as well as SDKs for internal development teams. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and data streaming solutions. This role involves developing reusable SDKs, helping build a distributed, event messaging platform and enabling seamless integration with Confluent and Datastax.
About you:
We'll value your proven initiative, problem solving abilities and leadership skills as we look for every engineer to lead from their position.
We advocate agile, fully cross functional teams which will take you through all facets of engineering in any given day. We are looking for a mix of technical skills, including:
We are looking for someone who has most of the following:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Extensive experience with Apache Kafka, and ideally experienced with Confluent and Datastax
- Strong design and programming skills in C# .Net
- Proven experience building SDKs, libraries, and reusable software components
- In-depth understanding of distributed systems, event streaming and data consistency patterns.
- Experience with schema management and serialization formats.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control tools like Git.
Ideally you would also have:
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration for deploying Confluent and Datastax based solutions.
- Experience with cloud platforms, in particular Azure
- Hands-on experience with security frameworks for Kafka and Datastax, including authentication, authorization and encryption
- Understanding of observability tools such as the ELK stack for monitoring
- Proficiency in Agile methodologies.
Working at ASB:
ASB's sense of who we are and what we stand for is grounded in our values. They guide our business in our day-to-day interactions with our team, customers and community. They are what makes ASB - ASB.
Along with our interactions, values guide our actions and conduct, making ASB a safe and inclusive environment for both our people and our customers. They show that we care, are passionate and courageous, and that we act with integrity. Most importantly they unite us - because they are ASB.
We offer a flexible and supportive work environment and offer an open and inclusive culture; a place where we welcome and value your individuality, ideas and goals.
If we've nailed our pitch and this role sounds like it might be the one for you then please click "apply"… we'd love to hear from you!
To be considered, all applications need to be via our on-line career channels and will be treated with confidentiality.
