Senior Software Engineer – Big Data

A career with EROAD offers the unique opportunity to work in a fast-growing organisation that is at the forefront of intelligent transport solutions, enhancing road safety, improving productivity, and reducing environmental impact. EROAD's mission is to deliver intelligence you can trust, for a better world tomorrow.

What We’re Looking For

Are you a passionate problem-solver who thrives at the intersection of software engineering, big data, and cloud platforms? We’re looking for a Software Engineer – Big Data to help us design, build, and scale our next-generation analytics and data platform. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll work across the stack — from real-time data ingestion pipelines to APIs powering customer insights.

You’ll join an ambitious, collaborative engineering team that embraces agile practices, modern tooling, and cloud-native design. While AWS is our primary cloud, you’ll also be exposed to multi-cloud data patterns using platforms like Azure and Snowflake as our platform evolves.

About the Role

As EROAD continues to expand globally, we are evolving our big data platform to support real-time analytics, AI, and advanced insights for our customers. This is a product engineering position where you will work closely with product managers, architects, and stakeholders to transform business and product requirements into robust technical solutions.

Join us in an exciting role where you will directly contribute to making roads safer and more sustainable by delivering data products that have a real-world impact.

As a Senior Software Engineer – Big Data, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure and pipelines to ingest, transform, and process data from diverse streaming, batch, and API sources.
• Assemble large, complex datasets and optimise them for scalability, performance, and security.
• Develop and design scalable RESTful APIs and event-driven services that power analytics and insights.
• Build decoupled, reusable software components that accelerate product delivery.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) to provision and manage cloud resources — currently AWS, with growing adoption of multi-cloud patterns.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) to automate testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Proactively implement and maintain data quality, lineage, security, and governance.
• Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand use cases and deliver data solutions that generate measurable business value.
• Ensure solutions align with architectural standards and document them clearly for teams to follow.

Skills and Experience

We’re looking for someone with deep technical capability, strong collaboration skills, and a passion for working with large-scale data systems.

You’ll bring:

• 3+ years’ experience in software and/or data engineering, ideally with Java plus Python or Scala.
• Proven ability to build cloud-native applications and data pipelines within a microservices architecture.
• Experience with streaming and batch data processing tools/platforms (e.g., Kinesis, Kafka, Flink, Glue, Databricks, Azure Data Factory).
• Advanced SQL skills with experience in relational databases, query optimisation, and varied data formats.
  Bonus: Experience with Snowflake, dbt, or Apache Iceberg.
• Proficiency in Terraform and experience automating cloud infrastructure.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs (OpenAPI / Swagger).
• Familiarity with design patterns and delivering for non-functional requirements (security, observability, cost optimisation).
• Commitment to data best practices — quality, lineage, governance, and security.
• Hands-on automated testing (unit, integration, and data validation) using tools such as JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, and dbt tests.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD automation — ideally with GitHub Actions.

Why You’ll Love Working at EROAD

EROAD is a true Kiwi success story in the tech sector! Publicly listed since 2012, we are represented on the NZX and ASX, and continue to grow rapidly across NZ, Australia, and the USA.

At EROAD, we value diversity and are a multicultural company with employees from all over the world. We are committed to investing in our people, demonstrated through our funded medical insurance plans, unlimited sick leave, recognition programs, EAP offerings, and more. EROAD fosters a sense of community and belonging through fun and collaborative workplace initiatives.

Join EROAD and be part of a purpose-driven organisation making a real difference in the world. Help shape the future of big data in transport — we can’t wait to hear from you.