Intermediate Infrastructure Engineer

📋 Job Overview

At Centrapay, we're on a mission to democratise payments. Outdated card technology leaves merchants paying high fees, gives consumers limited choice, and keeps traditional money and new digital value in separate worlds. We're changing that by building a universal acceptance layer that lets any modern digital wallet or asset transact at any connected point of sale.

Our vision is simple: moving value should be as easy and efficient as sharing information. As commerce shifts towards digital assets and mobile-first experiences, we're building the foundation for what comes next.

Join us in building the future of commerce.

🏢 About Centrapay

We're on a mission to democratise payments. Outdated card technology leaves merchants paying high fees, gives consumers limited choice, and keeps traditional money and new digital value in separate worlds. We're changing that by building a universal acceptance layer that lets any modern digital wallet or asset transact at any connected point of sale.

Our vision is simple: moving value should be as easy and efficient as sharing information. As commerce shifts towards digital assets and mobile-first experiences, we're building the foundation for what comes next.

🎯 The Role

These aren't 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 people's money and nobody but us ever notices.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 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. You'll 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 wouldn't normally get to use.
• Progress over perfection. We deploy to production daily, and you'll 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.

📌 Required Qualifications

• At least 3 years shipping real code to users - we're looking for people who've learned from real mistakes and know what it takes to build reliable systems
• Clear writing: since we're 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

🎁 Benefits

• 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
• We offer flexible working
• Awesome office location at City Works Depot (if you're 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

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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