Principal Engineer

As a Principal Engineer you'll be responsible for providing technical consultancy, code architecture and engineering capability to the technical and operational teams in Movio and within the Wider Vista Group, to ensure the ongoing technical quality and longevity of our software suite and the success of our offerings.

This role will work with the Lead Software Architect, Global Head of Platform and Architecture, the Architecture team and Engineering teams, to develop, refine and implement the technical and architectural strategies for Vista software and services.

The role will provide technical research and software design services to teams as required, including proactively creating and reviewing solution designs and technical implementation details, and recommending improvements that ensure our software and services advance in line with our technical strategy.

In addition to providing general mentoring and technical guidance to Engineers, Operations Staff and Technical Experts, the role will include working with teams on a project basis, creating solutions and implementing positive and meaningful solutions across our product and service estate.

Key responsibilities

Strategy:

• Work with the Lead Software Architect, Global Head of Platform and Architecture, Architecture team members and key subject matter experts to develop and refine strategic technical goals and strategy documentation for Vista software and services
• Monitor external and internal information sources to identify new technology options relevant to our software and services
• Research new technology options where appropriate and communicate findings to Vista Group stakeholders
• Assist the Global Head of Platform and Architecture to refine and communicate technical strategy to all relevant stakeholders
• Proactively monitor solution designs and technical implementation details across multiple development teams to ensure development efforts are adhering to our strategic goals

Guidance and Mentoring:

• Provide technical mentoring and guidance to all teams as required including architecture, solution design and review services
• Ensure the teams are aware of our strategic technical goals and are working collaboratively to achieve these
• Work with the Global Head of Platform and Architecture, Head of Cloud Services, Architects, and the Development Teams to promote technical excellence
• Facilitate regular collaborative sessions with teams to ensure ongoing technical improvements to our core software modules and frameworks

Engineering and Delivery:

• Develop proof of concept to prove key elements of solution design will deliver all the aspects we wish to
• Work alongside engineering teams to build key platform and customer deliverables
• Help manage key engineering projects to delivery

Operations:

• Help define operational state and runbooks for production and test systems
• Work with engineering teams as required on high priority issue identification and remediation

Other:

• Assist the Lead Software Architect and Global Head of Platform and Architecture to document and maintain internal development resources and best practice guidance
• Perform interviews for new Architecture and Engineering staff as required
• Complete other tasks as directed by the Lead Software Architect, Global Head of Platform and Architecture and Senior Architect(s) acting as support and stand-in as required

About Vista

Vista is a world-leading company that makes software for the cinema industry. Started in Auckland, New Zealand, over 25 years ago, we now serve cinemas, film distributors, and moviegoers worldwide.

Our HQ is in the City Works Depot in Auckland. We have offices and subsidiary companies in Sydney, Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Shanghai, Mexico City, and Kuala Lumpur. We use the latest technologies and offer a fun, agile and collaborative environment. We continue to innovate and build our reputation as one of the best Kiwi tech companies to work for.

Requirements

Qualifications and experience prerequisites:

• Significant relevant industry experience
• 3+ years’ experience in Golang development
• 5+ years’ experience in working on AWS, ideally with working knowledge of EKS or other container deployment mechanisms
• Experience designing and implementing high quality, complex software applications
• An excellent understanding of modern software engineering techniques, practices and patterns and their application in real world software scenarios
• Experience leading technology projects at scale to delivery and beyond
• Significant experience working with RDMS systems such as Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server or Oracle
• Experience creating and maintaining deployment pipelines with such tools as Terraform, or CloudFormation

Additional experience that would be beneficial would include:

• Working knowledge of modern SPA javascript frameworks on Typescript such as React or Angular
• Working knowledge of Data Engineering ecosystems
• Working knowledge of GraphQL
• Working experience with the operational and technical aspects of sending emails at scale

Benefits

You will be supported to continually learn and improve your skills, share knowledge and ideas in the team, and be part of a dynamic and open culture.

We have a range of benefits that include:

• Excellent work/life balance, including a 4 ½ day working week
• Hybrid working (home/office based split, requiring regular weekly attendance in the Auckland office)
• Medical and Life insurance
• Volunteer day, enhanced paid parental leave and wellness benefits
• Strong mentoring & career development focus
• Fun team events including the Vista Innovation Cup

If this sounds like you, get in touch to find out more

We value inclusivity celebrate diversity and are committed to offering equal opportunity to our staff and candidates — regardless of gender, age, race, ethnicity, marital status, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religious, ethical beliefs or political opinion. This commitment is reflected in all our employment policies and procedures.