Hybrid Senior Engineering Lead – Risk Detections

at Auror

• Job title: Senior Engineering Lead – Risk Detections
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: NZ$142,500 - NZ$201,250 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, React, TypeScript, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Auckland, New Zealand

About the role

• Lead engineering team in the Risk Detection domain at Auror tackling organized retail crime. Building core detection capabilities with a focus on technical excellence and AI integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead with clarity and collaboration: Partner closely with product and cross-stream stakeholders, working with other engineering leads and teams in the Risk Detection group to plan and deliver work collaboratively, while maintaining collective ownership of the product.
• Raise the bar on technical excellence: Set clear intent, articulate the “why,” and drive a culture of pragmatic engineering quality in systems where accuracy, latency, and reliability directly affect customer trust and real-world outcomes.
• Balance hands-on leadership with empowerment: Stay close enough to the work to unblock, review critical changes, and model strong technical judgement—while enabling engineers to own major technical decisions and delivery end-to-end. Mentor engineers through strong questions, coaching, and feedback, not just answers.
• Evolve our Risk Detection platform for scale: Guide architectural decisions that move us toward more scalable, resilient, service-oriented patterns—supporting increasing data volumes, new regions, and expanding use cases while keeping performance and operability front of mind.
• Build operational excellence: Strengthen observability, incident readiness, and on-call sustainability so the team can confidently run and improve mission-critical services.
• Use AI tooling to amplify delivery (without sacrificing quality): Help the team adopt tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, and Claude in a way that accelerates development, improves learning, and maintains strong engineering standards.
• Champion scalable engineering practices: Establish fit-for-purpose testing strategies, efficient code review habits, and documentation that makes systems understandable, supportable, and safe to change as the stream grows.
• Partner tightly with product and cross-stream stakeholders: Collaborate with product leadership (and adjacent engineering streams) to ensure technical decisions translate into measurable customer impact in this highly sensitive and high-value area of the product.

Requirements

• Proven technical expertise: Strong proficiency in C#, .NET Core, React, TypeScript, and cloud-native architectures, coupled with the ability to understand technical decisions in the context of business value
• Leadership experience: Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, managing performance, and cultivating a culture of accountability and excellence.
• Communication skills: The ability to distill complex technical concepts for a variety of audiences, including non technical stakeholders.
• Passion for integrating AI: Experience or interest in leveraging AI tools and LLMs as force multipliers for your team—not just following trends, but thoughtfully applying these technologies to enhance engineering practices, streamline workflows and accelerate delivery.
• Big picture thinking: A strategic mindset that considers the broader business impact of engineering decisions, including scalability, performance, maintainability, and user experience when guiding architectural discussions.
• Prioritisation and decision-making: Skill in helping teams navigate trade-offs between immediate value and long-term technical health, breaking complex initiatives into meaningful, shippable increments..
• Passion for product quality: A strong understanding that technical excellence manifests as reliability, scalability, security, and data integrity, particularly crucial in our context of crime prevention and building safer communities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range: Depending on level of experience a starting salary of $142,500 - 182,500 (PL3) or $161,250 - $201,250 (PL4).
• Annual bonus: Eligibility for a bonus at the end of the financial year if we’ve hit our revenue goals together.
• Employee share scheme: You’ll own part of a company making a real difference!
• Flexibility: We are hard-working and outcome focused, but recognise there is more to life than work. We promote a healthy work/life blend.
• Shorter work weeks (at full pay): Everyone gets Friday afternoons off, so you can start your weekend early, and do more of whatever it is that makes you happy.
• Health Care Plan: In partnership with Nib, Auror covers 100% of the cost of your individual health insurance plan.
• Focus on mental and physical health: We understand how vital our health is and have policies to support your wellness, including: Wellness Days, and up to three expert sessions paid for every year.
• Family-friendly: We offer comprehensive parental leave and benefits for primary and non-primary caregivers, including a baby bonus and meals delivered to your door.
• Personal growth: We support our team to participate in courses, conferences, or events that will help them develop their skills.
• Team love: We have regular team lunches and social events where most (if not all) activities are during work hours.