Engineering - Software (Information & Communication Technology)People First. Dare to be Different. Live for the Future. Our values underpin everything we do.Social Culture: From Lego competitions and Bike week to Hackathons and Community Connect days, our team knows how to have fun.Certified B Corporation: We're committed to high social and environmental performance.Christchurch based: Enjoy hybrid working; our connection days in the office enable our supportive, collaborative, friendly and fun culture.First Rate Benefits: Health insurance for you and your immediate whanau, life & income protection, community connect leave, flexi-leave, generous parental leave and more.Jade Software has a new opportunity in Christchurch for a Graduate Systems Software Engineer, providing high-level technical expertise and consulting services for our Jade Platform product.ABOUT THE ROLEThe role includes system design, development, maintenance, testing, and customer support. The Jade Platform has its own language, compiler, object-oriented database, IDE, and runtime. This team is one of very few in the country where you can work on such things professionally.Most of our customers are long-standing and have built their core business on top of our product. As such, we have built close working relationships with them. However, we do not stand still; this new role will significantly contribute to our ongoing strategy to improve and evolve the Jade Platform, and you would be joining this exceptional team at an exciting time.Key role areas include:You will provide technical support to team members in the configuration, testing, and implementation of new/enhanced systems and other related advice, technical directions, and consultancy.Actively contributing to product testing activities including building unit tests.Technical collaboration with JADE development team and customers, through analyzing and specifying application system requirements for customer solutions.Using skill and knowledge to diagnose technical issues, escalating more complex issues to a Senior Systems Software Engineer.Contributing to the development and maintenance of the JADE object-oriented database and programming language.Working with key stakeholders during the implementation and testing of developed solutions and/or products.ABOUT YOUWhat you will bring to Jade:You should want to immerse yourself in a complex engineering role, supporting and developing a unique product. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, along with good analytical and problem-solving skills and a passion for technology and software. You must be organized, have attention to detail, and an ability to self-manage and work within a close-knit team.It is essential that you have:Some experience in software development including a genuine interest in systems programming. You will have proven experience working in varied languages and have the ability to learn and adapt to various and new technologies.Experience with C++ from a systems programming point of view alongside some experience in .Net and C#.Excellent verbal and written communication skills.A curious nature and be able to perform self-directed learning.Some nice to haves but not essential:A relevant IT tertiary qualification.Previous experience in Object-Oriented Database development.Experience maintaining systems through monitoring and correcting software defects.A 'Lifetime of learning' approach is super important. The team has some of the most experienced and skilled system software engineers in the country – you will learn from the best (30+ years exp).If you are excited about this role and are confident at surpassing expectations at Jade, we encourage you to apply; you could just be who we are looking for, for this or other positions at Jade.ABOUT JADEJade Software is an iconic New Zealand name in technology and has evolved and grown to support our customers globally with complex technology problem-solving, providing products Jade ThirdEye and Jade Platform, and creating data-driven solutions. Our HQ is based in Christchurch, NZ and we have offices in Auckland, Dunedin, Sydney, and York, UK.We value and celebrate creating a diverse and inclusive organization for our people. We know diversity benefits everyone who comes into contact with our business. Diversity and Inclusion at Jade means that we celebrate and appreciate all the ways we are different.At Jade, our People First culture means we do not stand still with our progressive people initiatives; we have recently improved our employee benefits around our community connect leave, flexi-leave, and a highly supportive and generous parental leave scheme. Our employees and their whanau are provided with health insurance, as well as life and income protection for our people amongst other great benefits. We are proud at Jade that we have crushed our gender pay gap to 1.9% in 2024.Your application to Jade will be reviewed based on your work experience or skills that you can bring to Jade and not on your cultural background, gender, age, disability, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, or any other aspect which makes you unique.
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