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Your Title: Software Engineer

Job Location: Christchurch, NZ

Our Department: Civil Construction Field Systems - Cloud Software

Positions Available: 3 (2 x entry level/intermediate, 1 x professional level)

Are you a passionate Software Engineer/Developer eager to design, analyse, and program cutting-edge software in a collaborative environment?

What You Will Do

As a Software Engineer within CCFS - Cloud Software at Trimble, your software engineering expertise will contribute to developing, maintaining, and quality control of a broad range of Civil Construction applications and capabilities.

You will work on applications ranging from construction design and execution, to construction and fleet management. Using the latest tools and technologies you will engineer robust and resilient web-based applications based on the needs of our customers.

This will include the following:

• Analyse, design, program, debug, and modify web-based software applications

• Use current programming language and technologies, write code, complete programming, and perform testing and debugging of applications

• Document new and existing software features and support guides

• Work across the full software development lifecycle, including new product releases, upgrades, functional enhancements, defect resolution, and performance improvements

• Work with QA and Operations to test and deploy changes to a product set up for continuous deployment

• Work with product managers and other stakeholders to ensure that our software is fit for purpose

• Build scalable and sustainable solutions, utilising engineering best practices in an Agile, team-oriented, and collaborative environment.

What Skills You Should Bring

• Curiosity and willingness to learn is an absolute must

• Ability to contribute and add value to this dynamic team environment

• Strong analytical and decision-making skills

• Ability to work as part of a collaborative team

• Effective verbal and written communication skills are required

• Creativity and the ability to innovate.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or relevant experience.

• Professional experience as a software engineer suitable to the appropriate level (entry/intermediate/professional)

• Experience maintaining a high bar for code quality, testing, and automation while finding opportunities to make improvements continuously

• Ability to write business and technical specification documents that convey complex analysis and solutions clearly and concisely

• Experience writing backend systems using C# .Net, SQL, ReST, or GraphQL is required

• JavaScript and frontend technologies experience like Angular, React

• Cloud-hosted software application experience, ideally with Microsoft Azure

• Event-based systems experience, using technologies such as Kafka or EventStoreDB is desirable

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex business processes and systems

• Have a DevOps mindset, promoting cloud-oriented solutions while implementing and supporting monitoring, alerting, CI/CD pipelines as well as the team’s Cloud infrastructure.

About Your Location

Our office in Christchurch, New Zealand (handily located on the Little River Link Cycleway), is the engineering center in our region and home to over 380 staff, offering free parking, an onsite fully featured gym, changing rooms & showers, table tennis, an active social club, and a great team environment where people love working with leading technology solutions.

Being located in the office provides opportunities to learn from and collaborate with many like-minded individuals from across the company. While this position is ideally suited for an in-office role, our team has a friendly culture and we provide flexible working arrangements for all staff.

At Trimble, you'll find the inspiration and opportunity to be yourself and thrive. The global community of Team Trimble, including more than 400 people in New Zealand, is passionate about bringing new ideas and innovations to life and building a better, more sustainable future.

Please Note: Only applicants who are legally entitled to work in New Zealand will be considered.

About Our CCFS-CS Division

The Civil Construction Field Systems - Cloud Software division is focused on serving our civil construction customers with cutting-edge products and services. We have a customer-centric focus and continuously strive to make the construction industry cheaper, greener, and leaner.

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