Senior IT Software Engineer

Do you enjoy exploring ideas with your colleagues, refining code together and helping each other build better solutions? Do you care more about genuine teamwork than personal credit? If that sounds like you, you will fit right in.

The IT Software Engineering Department is a team of nineteen Business Analysts, Data Scientists and Engineers who build applications, APIs, BI tooling and data integrations used across the entire company. We work across a wide technical landscape, from low level disk and data services to high level Production and Business applications written primarily in Python and React. Everything we build sits within or around a complex VFX pipeline, and our focus is always on making life easier for our users.

This role focuses on supporting and developing several full stack web applications and business logic automations, running in both classic Linux environments and containerised frameworks.

As a Senior Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping that experience. Our teams maintain close relationships with their users, and your ability to understand their needs and translate them into reliable, intuitive software will be central to your success.

You will be managed by a Team Lead and work closely with Principal Engineers and other development and infrastructure teams. Each team owns its own set of applications and contributes to shared engineering standards around continuous integration, monitoring and alerting. Alongside feature development and project work, you will help modernise and improve systems so they can continue to scale. Our software runs twenty four hours a day, every day.

If you value meaningful work over flashiness, you will feel at home here. Still, many of us enjoy the fresh food and coffee, crew clothing offers, movie previews and local discounts that make Wētā a great place to spend our weekdays.

We'd absolutely love to hear from you if you think our team sounds like one you might like to join - and if you have the following skills:

• Experience working on single page applications and helping keep their frameworks up to date
• Strong knowledge of enterprise level relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL, including query optimisation, explain plans and index selection
• Proficiency in Python, or strong experience in other backend languages (such as Ruby) with the ability to quickly become proficient in Python
• Familiarity with JavaScript and frameworks such as React, Redux, TanStack, Backbone or jQuery
• Clear verbal and written communication and the ability to document work thoughtfully and consistently
• Experience developing on Linux hosts
• Experience with provisioning and containerisation tools such as Ansible, Docker or Kubernetes
• Comfort diagnosing low level issues including networking and filesystem behaviour
• A desire to learn, stay current and continuously improve your engineering practice

Desirable qualifications and experience:

• Experience with FileMaker and an interest in modernising how we support it
• Experience with BI and visualisation tools such as Tableau
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
• At least two years in a senior or principal engineering role
• Experience with NoSQL or full text search technologies such as Redis, Elasticsearch or SOLR

About us:

At Wētā FX we celebrate our diversity and strive to create an environment where all crew feel welcome, respected and supported. We define ourselves by the quality of our work and are committed to offering a workplace experience second to none. We value open minds and encourage everyone here to be themselves.

We aim to provide a discrimination free experience, beginning from the moment you apply. If there is anything we can do to make the recruitment process easier, please contact recruitment@wetafx.co.nz.

Location: Wellington NZ