Senior Engineering Lead, Risk Detection

Auror

Lead engineering team focusing on risk detection systems for Auror's product, improving crime detection technology and ensuring reliability and performance standards. Collaborate across departments to achieve clear customer outcomes.

Posted 7/30/2026full-timeAuckland • 🇳🇿 New ZealandSenior💰 NZ$142,500 - NZ$182,500 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong technical expertise in C#, .NET Core, React, TypeScript, and cloud-native architectures while leading engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions. Champions responsible engineering practices and integrates AI tools to enhance workflows and drive measurable customer outcomes.

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C# Proficiency.NET Core ExpertiseReact DevelopmentAI IntegrationLeadership Experience

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Hard Skills

C#.NET CoreReactTypeScriptCloud-Native ArchitecturesArchitectural Decision-MakingQuality AssuranceScalabilityReliabilityData Integrity

Soft Skills

Communication SkillsBig Picture ThinkingPrioritizationDecision-MakingCoaching

Tools & Technologies

Agentic AI PracticesLLMsObservability ToolsIncident Response SystemsCloud Services

Industry Keywords

Risk DetectionTechnical ExcellenceCustomer OutcomesPrivacy-Conscious EngineeringCrime Prevention

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud.NETReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead Engineering Across Risk Detection
Lead engineering across Auror's Risk Detection domain, setting a clear technical direction across our detection platforms, including ASR, while ensuring teams remain aligned around shared priorities and customer outcomes.
Run structured sprint rituals, including stand ups, retrospectives and planning, keeping the team focused on delivering meaningful outcomes.
Raise the Bar on Technical Excellence
Set clear engineering standards and drive pragmatic quality across systems where accuracy, latency and reliability directly impact customer trust.
Guide architectural decisions that evolve Risk Detection into scalable, service oriented platforms that support future growth without unnecessary complexity.
Lead Agentic Engineering Processes
Embed governed, agentic AI practices across the team. Champion LLMs and agentic tooling as force multipliers for delivery, code review and testing, establishing repeatable workflows with appropriate guardrails, human oversight and quality gates. Continuously measure impact and share successful practices across Engineering.
Deliver the Risk Detection Roadmap
Own delivery of the Risk Detection roadmap, including continued evolution of ASR, expansion into new regions, and initiatives that strengthen Auror's broader detection capabilities.
Strengthen observability, incident response and operational excellence across both edge and cloud services, ensuring highly reliable, real time systems.
Grow the Team
Build and grow a high performing engineering team through coaching, mentoring and technical leadership.
Partner closely with Product, Design, QE and Customer Success to ensure technical decisions translate into measurable customer outcomes.
Champion Responsible Engineering
Champion responsible, privacy conscious engineering practices across Risk Detection, ensuring solutions meet regulatory expectations and retailer privacy requirements while enabling continued innovation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven technical expertise: Strong proficiency in C#, .NET Core (or newer), React, TypeScript, and cloud-native architectures, coupled with the ability to understand technical decisions in the context of business value.
Leadership experience: Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, managing performance, and cultivating a culture of accountability and excellence.
Communication skills: The ability to distill complex technical concepts for a variety of audiences, including non technical stakeholders. Experience leading tradeoff calls with non technical stakeholders.
Passion for integrating AI: Experience or interest in leveraging AI tools and LLMs as force multipliers for your team—not just following trends, but thoughtfully applying these technologies to enhance engineering practices, streamline workflows and accelerate delivery.
Big picture thinking: A strategic mindset that considers the broader business impact of engineering decisions, including scalability, performance, maintainability, and user experience when guiding architectural discussions.
Prioritisation and decision-making: Skill in helping teams navigate trade-offs between immediate value and long-term technical health, breaking complex initiatives into meaningful, shippable increments.
Passion for product quality: A strong understanding that technical excellence manifests as reliability, scalability, security, and data integrity, particularly crucial in our context of crime prevention and building safer communities.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary range: Depending on level of experience a starting salary of $142,500 - 182,500 (PL3) or $161,250 - $190,250 (PL4).
Annual bonus: Eligibility for a bonus at the end of the financial year if we’ve hit our revenue goals together.
Employee share scheme: You’ll own part of a company making a real difference!
Flexibility: We are hard-working and outcome focused, but recognise there is more to life than work. We promote a healthy work/life blend.
Shorter work weeks (at full pay): Everyone gets Friday afternoons off, so you can start your weekend early, and do more of whatever it is that makes you happy.
Focus on mental and physical health: We understand how vital our health is and have policies to support your wellness, including Wellness Days, and up to $750 NZD for expert sessions every year.
Health Care Plan: We prioritise looking after your health by offering cover under our premier health business insurance plan through nib health insurance - with Auror covering 100% of your premium.
Family-friendly: We offer comprehensive paid parental leave - 12 weeks for birth parents and 6 weeks for non-birth parents following birth, adoption, or surrogacy, available to all Aurors from day one.
Personal growth: We support our team to participate in courses, conferences, or events that will help them develop their skills.
Team love: We have regular team lunches and social events where most (if not all) activities are during work hours.