Intermediate Infrastructure Engineer

Location: New Zealand, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand, Christchurch, Canterbury Region, New Zealand

Department: Technology

Workplace: remote

Employment Type: full

Description

At Centrapay, were revolutionising how you spend money both in-store and online. We allow businesses to create digital assets and loyalty programmes so that you can spend and be rewarded anywhere. Some of our partners include Coca-Cola, BNZ, and Farmlands, and we process payments in New Zealand and Australia.

Our payments platform is the heartbeat of what we do. On top of this, were building our hero app, Payap (www.payap.com), that brings all of our best capabilities to life.

👩‍💻 What youll actually be working on

These arent abstract responsibilities. These are real projects from our roadmap:

• Stress-testing our systems before reality does : chaos engineering and load testing that deliberately breaks things in controlled ways, so we know exactly what happens when traffic spikes 10x on a public holiday or a dependency quietly falls over at 2am.
• Rolling out an AI Harness across engineering: not a chatbot bolted onto the sidebar, but tooling and workflows that change how we actually ship, review, and debug code day to day.
• Building disaster recovery that actually recovers: complete regional failover, so if an entire cloud region disappears mid-transaction, our system keeps moving peoples money and nobody but us ever notices.
  

🏋️‍♀️ How we actually work

• You build it, you run it, you own it. Engineers at Centrapay ship features end-to-end and see them through production. When something breaks or could be better, you have the context and autonomy to fix it - no waiting for permission or handoffs to other teams.

• Learn by building. We give you business problems, not specs. Partners need faster onboarding is your starting point, and how you solve it is up to you. Youll do market research, run spikes, and explore the solution space. No ticket grooming, no story pointing. We also have 10% time and hackathons where you can experiment with new tech you wouldnt normally get to use.
• Progress over perfection. We deploy to production daily, and youll push code on your first day. We believe in shipping early, iterating fast, and learning from real usage.
• Work across the stack. Backend, frontend, infrastructure. Whatever it takes to deliver amazing experiences for our customers.
  

📚 Our stack

Dont stress if you havent touched some of these, well help you bridge the gaps:

• AI tools: Claude Code, Cursor, Github Copilot
• Backend & data: Node.js, DynamoDB, Redis, Vitest
• Frontend: Vue.js, Tailwind CSS, Astro, Testing Library, Playwright
• Infrastructure & operations: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry
• Tooling: Claude, Github, Slack, Notion, Figma

Requirements

👀 Who were looking for

• At least 3 years shipping real code to users - were looking for people whove learned from real mistakes and know what it takes to build reliable systems
• Clear writing: since were async-first and most of our communication happens in writing
• Comfortable with ambiguity: you’ll be expected to talk to users and figure out what to build
  

🏌️ Why you might not apply (and why you should anyway)

• I dont have AWS experience - We care more about how you think than what cloud services you have used. If you can build on GCP or Azure, you can learn AWS in a week, and well pair with you to help you get up to speed.
• I dont live in Auckland - No problem, we want you work to where you work best.

👋 The interview process

We believe in being open and transparent, so here’s exactly what to expect:

1. First chat (1 hour video call) - an opportunity to get to know you, talk about the role and Centrapay
2. Take-home task - 2-4 hours on your schedule
3. Code review session (1 hour video call) - discuss your task, design decisions, and trade-offs together
4. Final chat (30 minutes) - an opportunity to connect with our CEO and CTO

🚀 Why Join Us?

• Be part of a fast-growing fintech shaping the future of payments
• Work with a team that values innovation, collaboration and ambition
• Competitive compensation, growth opportunities, and a chance to make a real impact

Benefits

We look after our people at Centrapay, a key focus is our culture and ensuring we create a positive and healthy work environment. We continuously look at ways to make improvements and regularly ask for employee feedback and input.

🏄 Your key benefits

• We offer flexible working
• Awesome office location at City Works Depot (if youre in Auckland)
• 6 weeks annual leave
• A Macbook Pro
• We have a down-to-earth, open culture that values inclusion
• In-person and online social activities to keep you connected
• Training and development opportunities
• Sick leave from day one
• Free health insurance via Southern Cross
• Free Life insurance
• Additional parental leave entitlements

For more information on Centrapay please visit https://centrapay.com/

BNZ and Centrapay are partnering together to lead the charge in payment innovation and push the boundaries of what’s possible.