Phocas Software

Senior Software Engineer – Financial Statements

Phocas Software

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Christchurch • 🇳🇿 New Zealand

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

ReactTypeScript

About the role

  • You’ll lead design and development of the core foundations that power financial reporting for thousands of users, including:
  • Scaling multi-currency support — Designing and delivering more flexible, sophisticated multi-currency capabilities, supporting forecasting, scenario analysis, and evolving financial workflows.
  • Migration to our new data platform — Driving key decisions and contributing deeply to a faster, more modular architecture that unlocks performance, flexibility, and a smoother user experience.
  • Serving the Office of the CFO — Building reliable, scalable tools that speak the language of finance teams: precise, transparent, and built for high-trust environments.

Requirements

  • Proven experience building data-rich or calculation-heavy applications.
  • Deep capability in React and TypeScript.
  • Strong system-level thinking: you understand how data flows, where complexity hides, and how to evolve architecture responsibly.
  • Familiarity with financial concepts and an interest in learning how finance teams operate.
Benefits
  • The people: Supportive, capable, low-ego teams who care deeply about what they build.
  • 10% PD Time: One day a fortnight dedicated to learning and development.
  • Social culture: Optional silliness + regular food bribery.
  • Spacious Sydenham office: Central location and plenty of parking (cars/bikes/scooters).
  • Benefits: Southern Cross, Life, TPD and Income Protection Insurance, extra paid parental leave, educational reimbursement and more.
  • Flexibility: Hybrid working policy, flexible hours.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
ReactTypeScriptdata-rich applicationscalculation-heavy applicationsmodular architecturemulti-currency capabilitiesfinancial workflowsforecastingscenario analysisdata platform migration
Soft skills
system-level thinkingproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationadaptability