Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Rico, a fast‑growing New Zealand startup, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join its product team. You will work closely with the CTO to shape the architecture, engineering practices and user experience of a platform that streamlines planning applications for councils and developers.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement responsive front‑end features using React, TypeScript and TipTap.
• Build and maintain back‑end services with Node.js, TypeScript and PostgreSQL on AWS.
• Collaborate on complex UX challenges such as rich‑text editing, custom document generation and AI‑driven workflows.
• Help evolve the system architecture to support scaling to more customers and use cases.
• Apply functional programming patterns with Effect to improve type safety and developer experience.

Required profile

• Strong front‑end or full‑stack experience, preferably with React and TypeScript.
• Demonstrated product instincts and a focus on delivering intuitive, high‑quality user experiences.
• Ability to take ownership of ambiguous problems and ship reliable features quickly.
• Interest in working on AI integrations, advanced editing workflows and large‑scale infrastructure.

Required skills

• React
• TypeScript
• Effect (functional programming library)
• TipTap / ProseMirror
• Node.js
• PostgreSQL
• AWS (ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation)