Spark New Zealand Looking for Front End Developer at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

Description & Requirements

As New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark’s purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.

We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand.

You’ll be empowered to work on things that you’re passionate about. You’ll be given autonomy to deliver on your ideas that contribute to our overall business strategy, and you will never have a chance to get bored. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come and build the future and help us, to help New Zealand win big in a digital world.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Front End Developer in Auckland to support Spark’s front end applications. You will be responsible for building user-friendly, scalable, and performant applications. No two days will look the same, as you will work with a breadth of teams, learn different parts of the business, and work with people throughout the country!

Day to day you will:

• Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, responsive web applications using React and Node.js.
• Collaborate with designers, backend developers, testers, and the product team to create beautiful, functional user interfaces for our customers.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest in the front-end world and collaborate with the Web development chapter to keep our development practices world-class.

What experience you’ll bring:

• Experience with TypeScript, React, Node.js and CSS (styled-component).
• 4+ years of professional experience building front-end applications.
• Understanding of unit testing with React testing library, continuous integration, deployment & monitoring.
• Experience with DevOps with cloud CI/CD pipelines is a bonus.
• Team player, growth mindset, positive attitude.

WHY CHOOSE US:

Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai

At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture. Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be “how things are done at Spark”, embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices. We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.

Sustainability: Toitū

Sustainability is a key focus for us. We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand’s recovery and economic transformation. The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion.

Benefits: Awhina

Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we’ve got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including:

• Wellbeing – Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection. Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme.
• Hybrid ways of working – for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 3 days a week, and 2 days being flexible.
• Leave – in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave payments & support, and study leave.
• Spark Credit – We provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products.
• Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme.
• Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.

Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa (with at least 18 months remaining).

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