Cognex

Senior Software Engineer

Auckland, New Zealand Full time

Job Description

Intermediate to Senior Software Engineer contributing to a production platform used in largescale logistics operations around the world. This role suits an engineer who enjoys shipping meaningful features, learning a complex domain, and collaborating with senior engineers and technical leads to raise the bar on quality, reliability, and delivery. 

Engineers at the senior level are expected to operate with greater independence and influence technical direction through experience, strong judgement, and consistently highquality execution. 

Responsibilities 

  • Design, implement, and ship features that directly improve the platform for customers globally. 

  • Contribute to technical discussions and design reviews, influencing solutions through thoughtful analysis and strong code. 

  • Build dependable software for realworld systems that cannot rely on frequent updates or rapid iteration after deployment. 

  • Collaborate closely with peers and USbased stakeholders on delivery, design, and technical alignment. 

  • Incrementally improve code quality, documentation, and operational confidence. 

  • Participate in occasional support rotations, including diagnostics, rootcause analysis, and fixes. 

  • (Senior) Provide technical guidance through example, code review, and pragmatic problem solving. 

Required Skills 

  • Strong experience with .NET in production systems. 

  • Strong working knowledge of Python. 

  • Frontend experience using Angular or similar frameworks. 

  • Comfortable working in Linux / Ubuntu environments. 

  • Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problemsolving skills. 

  • Intermediate:Typically 2+ years of professional software engineering experience in relevant technologies and production environments, or equivalent demonstrated capability. 

  • Senior:Typically 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of impact on production systems and technical decisionmaking. 

Nice to Have 

  • Experience in logistics, supply chain, or other operationally complex domains. 

  • Exposure to serviceoriented architectures. 

  • Experience supporting live, businesscritical systems. 

  • Experience with Rust, or a genuine interest in learning it. 

Ways of Working 

  • Work closely with a USbased engineering team, with regular overlap for collaboration and alignment. 

  • Our customers operate globally, so some scheduling flexibility supports effective partnership. 

  • Support is an occasional rotation (approximately one week in every six), not a primary responsibility. 

  • Hybird work from home policy. 

Location

  • 3/4D Pacific Rise Mt Wellington, Auckland 1060. New Zealand

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