💼 Full-Time Position

Lead Software Engineer

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Southern Cross
📍 Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand
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Location
Manukau, New Zealand
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Posted
April 12, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

About us

We're a not-for-profit organisation on a mission to transform ourselves and empower New Zealanders to live their healthiest lives.
 

With almost a million members in our care, we are New Zealand's leading health insurer.

We have an unstoppable focus, delivering outstanding experiences to our members in their time of need. This is an exciting time to be part of our journey and in return for your extraordinary talent, we'll provide a high performing values-based team environment where people are at our heart.

About the role

As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll drive technical decisions for your squad, turning customer needs into reliable, high-quality software. This is a hands-on role: code, review, architect, and make smart trade-offs to keep delivery flowing.

What you’ll do:

  • Own engineering quality and delivery speed — ship small, frequent, confident changes.

  • Build clean, testable, r...