Theta (NZ)

Lead Full Stack Developer – Security Focus

Theta (NZ)

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: AucklandNew Zealand

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About the role

  • Use your superb communication skills to liaise with internal and external stakeholders
  • Mentor other developers and share knowledge within the team
  • Improve security of systems by addressing vulnerabilities and applying best practices to Front-end (Angular) and Back-end (C#) applications
  • Contribute to design and architecture decisions, and advocate for software development and security best practices
  • The hands-on aspect: Write clean and maintainable code with accompanying automated tests
  • Find new ways to leverage AI coding tools for efficiencies
  • Participate in code reviews, Scrum ceremonies, and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Stay up to date with security, front- and back-end technology trends, tools, patterns, best practices and emerging technologies
  • Collaborate with designers, stakeholders and developers to understand requirements, and build functionality into existing applications following software development and security best practices

Requirements

  • 8+ years of commercial experience in software development, including both Front- and Back-end
  • Demonstratable experience in leading teams of developers
  • Superb communication skills, oral and written, and ability to articulate technical subjects to non-technical stakeholders
  • Great interpersonal and collaboration skills
  • Customer-facing experience, both in terms of presales activities and project-led interactions
  • Solid knowledge of software development best practices, especially security related
  • Experience working on large legacy-heavy codebases
  • Web application API development experience, including ASP.NET APIs, Azure Functions/API Management, or similar frameworks
  • Proven experience with the Microsoft development stack for Back-end development: Building JSON-based RESTful APIs in C# (.NET Core), with Azure Functions/API management and SQL Server for data storage
  • Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS, and utilising modern front-end SPA frameworks, specifically Angular, for application development
  • Experience integrating front-end applications with JSON-based RESTful APIs
  • Experience using AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, etc.) to aid development
  • Experience with setting up and configuring CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) especially in the context of build and test automation
  • Excellent time management, and able to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Right to work in NZ
Benefits
  • Fully subsidised medical insurance for employees
  • Heavily discounted medical insurance for immediate family of employees
  • Enhanced parental leave payment – salary top-ups plus return-to-work incentive
  • Hybrid working model (from a minimum 2 days in the office)
  • Volunteer days
  • Internal Referral Incentive
  • Staff Assistance Programme
  • Annual Flu injections
  • Sick leave from your first day on board
  • Daily fresh fruit basket, coffee machine, wide selection of teas and biscuits in all of our offices
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Hard Skills & Tools
C#AngularTypeScriptHTML5CSSASP.NETJSON-based RESTful APIs.NET CoreSQL ServerCI/CD pipelines
Soft Skills
communication skillsmentoringinterpersonal skillscollaboration skillscustomer-facing experiencetime managementleadershiparticulating technical subjectscontinuous improvementproblem-solving