# Senior Software Engineer (Frontend focussed) > Auror · Auckland, New Zealand (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-04-21 **Salary:** unknown currency 100,000–190,000 **Workplace:** hybrid **Department:** Engineering ## Description **About Auror** At Auror, we’re empowering the retail industry to tackle theft and Organised Retail Crime, a $150 Billion problem globally. It’s high volume crime that’s increasingly organised in nature and is putting people, retailers, and communities at risk every day. Founded in New Zealand 11 years ago, we’re working with some of the best and largest retailers in the world across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Auror is connecting people and intelligence to reduce crime. We’re using technology for good.  In partnership with our leading retail partners, we need people with the passion, determination, and innovation required to overcome one of the world's largest problems. If you’re looking to make a difference with and for the people dedicated to stopping crime, for good, then we want you on our team. We're also embracing the potential of AI to supercharge our impact—whether that's enhancing the way we detect trends, support our customers, or improve internal workflows. As a company, we're committed to responsibly incorporating AI into how we work and what we build, and we encourage all Aurors to be curious about how AI can elevate their work, regardless of role or function. **About Auror Engineering** Collaboration is at the heart of the Engineering team at Auror. We believe that we can only build the very best software by working with each other and seeking different perspectives to solve problems. We’re a team that: - Ship code to production constantly: Our product team ships code to production on average at least 10-15 times a day prioritising small releases and short feedback cycles and we do this with a minimal defect rate.  - Work on cloud native architecture: We focus on delivering business value to customers, without the burden of maintaining complex infrastructure - Work on innovative and up to date tech stacks: We are constantly evolving our technology stack inline with the needs of our business, leveraging React and Typescript for front-end and C# / Dotnet for back end. We host our services in Azure and utilise a wide range of cloud-native services with an evolving service-oriented architecture. - Contribute to our product: We work with Product Management and Product Design from the very beginning to make sure we’re delivering value to our customers and making a meaningful impact. - Supports a coaching culture: Together, we support one another to level up - Continuously improve: We are relentless about getting better and improving our processes, tooling and tech stack. **About the role** We’re looking for a **Senior Software Engineer with a frontend focus** to join our **Investigate stream**. This stream owns Auror’s **investigation and case management experience**, helping retailers and law enforcement collaborate, manage evidence, and turn information into actionable outcomes. This is a core part of our product, directly supporting how customers investigate incidents and build cases. You’ll work on features such as: - Investigation lifecycle (create, edit, archive, reopen) - Collaboration and activity tracking - Evidence management and exports (e.g. PDFs) - Timeline and link analysis - Outcomes and reporting - Integrations that bring intelligence into investigations This is a space with **high complexity, real-world impact, and strong requirements around usability, auditability, and correctness**. **What you'll do** - **Build high-quality frontend experiences:** Design and build maintainable, reusable components in React and TypeScript, improving usability and clarity for complex workflows while evolving frontend consistency across the product. - **Deliver end-to-end outcomes:** Work across frontend and backend to deliver complete features within the Investigate domain, integrating with existing APIs and ensuring solutions align with established patterns and boundaries. - **Own and drive delivery:** Take ownership of features from idea to production, breaking work into incremental improvements and maintaining momentum through pragmatic decision-making. - **Think in terms of product and outcomes:** Understand how investigation workflows impact real users, prioritising solutions that improve efficiency, clarity, and trust without over-engineering. - **Improve quality and systems:** Strengthen code quality, testing, and reliability while contributing to better frontend patterns, tooling, and observability across the system. - **Collaborate effectively:** Work closely with engineers, product, and design, communicating clearly and contributing to shared decisions and consistent approaches. **About the team** This is our epic Product team where you’ll work with a collaborative, fun and diverse bunch of people. To learn more about the team you’ll be joining, check out the video on Innovation Week 2024 on our careers page [https://www.auror.co/company-careers](https://www.auror.co/company-careers)  You can also read up up on our blogs and what life is like at Auror: [https://www.auror.co/at-auror](https://www.auror.co/at-auror)  ![](https://workablehr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/photos/193046/3bff7d4785b96a85fdcf0a441eed8bb1.png) ## Requirements **As one of our Software Engineers, you will bring the following:** As a Senior Software Engineer at Auror, you’ll bring a balance of strong frontend capability, pragmatic fullstack skills, and the ability to deliver meaningful outcomes. - **Frontend Engineering:** Strong experience building modern frontend applications with React and TypeScript, with the ability to design clean, reusable components that improve consistency, usability, and accessibility. - **Fullstack Capability:** Comfortable working across the stack to deliver end-to-end features, with the ability to understand backend systems and contribute where needed without being blocked. - **Ownership & Delivery:** Takes ownership of work from idea to production, breaking problems into incremental deliverables and driving progress with pragmatic decision-making. - **Product & Outcome Thinking:** Understands how technical work connects to customer value, prioritising practical solutions that deliver impact without over-engineering. - **Engineering Quality & Continuous Improvement:** Writes maintainable code and proactively improves systems, patterns, and tooling, with an emphasis on reliability, testing, and long-term quality. - **Collaboration & Communication:** Communicates clearly and collaborates effectively across engineering, product, and design, contributing to shared understanding and better outcomes. - **Growth Mindset & Adaptability:** Demonstrates curiosity, openness to feedback, and the ability to adapt to new challenges, continuously improving both skills and impact. - We are looking for people who demonstrate a strong alignment to our Guiding Principles (you can find these on our [Careers page](https://www.auror.co/company-careers)). Auror is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible application process to all candidates and we are actively working to improve diversity within the tech industry. We celebrate diversity and inclusiveness at Auror, regardless of (but not limited to) race, gender, sexual orientation, family status, religion, ethnicity, national origin, physical disability, veteran status, or age. If you need adjustments to any part of our recruitment process because of accessibility reasons, please do not hesitate to let us know during the application process. We will work with you to identify adjustments that will allow you to perform at your best. ## Benefits - **Competitive salary Range:** We offer a competitive salary that reflects your skills, experience, and the level of the role. Depending on level of experience of IC3 ($120,000 - $160,000) - **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. **Next steps:** If you’re excited about our mission and you have the experience and a passion for this role, please hit “Apply”. If you’re not sure that you tick all the boxes but feel you’re close to what we’re looking for, please apply anyway! We’re proud that Auror is a place where everyone can learn and grow so we’d love to hear from you. You'll be asked to submit a cover letter as part of your application. While this is optional we do encourage it, as we find cover letters can tell a story that resumes alone often cannot. Our hiring team love to understand what attracted you to this role and why you are excited about the opportunity to join Auror. Once you apply, you’ll hear from us to acknowledge your application. If you have questions about any of the above, or if you have any accessibility requirements, we’ll be able to help you from there. ## Apply [Apply at Auror](https://apply.workable.com/auror/j/0D4C7C9A91/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)