Staff Software Engineer

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🇳🇿 New Zealand – Remote

💵 $150k - $175k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Auror

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

☁️ SaaS

🛒 Retail

🔐 Security

💰 $48.6M Series C - Auror on 2024-11

SaaS • Retail • Security

Auror is a company that provides a cloud-based retail crime intelligence platform. Its SaaS product enables retailers, loss-prevention teams and law enforcement to report and analyze incidents (theft, fraud and organized retail crime), map patterns, share intelligence across organizations, and manage investigations to reduce repeat offending.

📋 Description

• Build technology that helps retail teams recognise risk and respond when it matters • Turn complex recognition signals into reliable, useful experiences for safer stores • Shape technical direction for the Auror Subject Recognition product • Partner with Product and Design to test assumptions and improve enrolment, detections, and real-time alerts • Lead complex work from design and implementation through production • Break open-ended problems into achievable increments and adapt priorities based on customer feedback and roadmap changes • Prepare ASR for enterprise scale across in-store edge systems and cloud services • Improve observability, resilience, security, privacy, and production incident investigation • Coach engineers on system design, scoping, and technical judgement • Improve team practices through approach reviews, written decisions, and shared learning • Report to Richard Brookes, Senior Engineering Lead

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated Staff-level impact, including driving technical outcomes, solving complex problems, and helping teams make sound technical decisions; prior Staff title not required • Experience developing products through uncertainty, including testing assumptions with customers and adapting technical choices • Technical depth and hands-on delivery experience • Ability to reason about architecture, service boundaries, event flows, and failure modes • Experience turning technical approaches into maintainable production software • Ability to make deliberate, pragmatic tradeoffs and change plans based on new evidence • Experience coaching engineers and improving team practices • Experience anticipating scaling limits and using testing, observability, and incident learning to improve reliability • Experience with distributed cloud services, edge deployments, or sensitive-data systems would be valuable • Strong alignment with Auror’s Guiding Principles • Work eligibility in Australia/New Zealand: Australian or New Zealand citizenship/permanent residency, or appropriate work authorization

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus: Eligibility for a NZD $5,500 bonus at the end of the financial year if revenue goals are met • Employee share scheme • Flexible work/life blend • Friday afternoons off at full pay • Wellness Days • Up to $750 NZD annually for expert health and wellness sessions • Health care coverage through nib health insurance, with Auror covering 100% of the premium • Paid parental leave: 12 weeks for birth parents and 6 weeks for non-birth parents following birth, adoption, or surrogacy, available from day one • Support for courses, conferences, or events for professional development • Regular team lunches and social events, mostly during work hours