About this role
What is the purpose of the Fullstack Developer’s role?
The Full Stack Developer’s purpose is to help Snapper deliver excellence to its customers across the frontend, backend and applied data spaces — building customer-facing product features on top of the data foundations designed by our data engineering team.
This is a core role in our Development team, building and testing our frontend and backend applications while implementing interfaces and design systems in partnership with our product and design teams. You’ll bring proven experience to this role, employing your skillset to help Snapper deliver excellent product to our customers.
Reports to: Development / Engineering Lead
Direct reports: None
Key relationships: Wider technical team, including our product and design teams, Solution Architecture and DevOps, and the data engineering and QA teams
Based in: Wellington, NZ
What does the Fullstack Developer do?
Software development is shifting, with a wider coverage of the technology spectrum made possible through AI. Snapper encourages developers to go deep in one particular space, and this role would ideally focus on frontend development.
• Building and maintaining responsive, accessible web interfaces in collaboration with the product and design teams
• Developing clean, clear and scalable APIs that connect our frontend, backend, and data layers
• Applying established design systems and component patterns
• Developing and testing applications, including following and improving best practices for frontend, backend, and data development
• Pair programming with other developers, sharing and building skillsets across the team
• Accurately translating user and business requirements into functional code
• Contributing to planning new projects in collaboration with our wider development and product teams
• Providing constructive feedback and support to the team via PR reviews
• Following and improving our processes for CI/CD and its configuration
• Contributing to proof-of-concept projects to explore new technologies ahead of implementation
• Championing our release processes to ensure deployments are planned and executed efficiently
What will help you to be successful in this role?
This role sits at intermediate to senior level — you’ll bring proven, hands-on experience rather than needing to build the fundamentals on the job:
• Proven, production experience with Angular/TypeScript/Java/Python
• Practical experience with modern CSS, responsive layout, and web accessibility (WCAG)
• Experience with component architecture and design system best practice
• Solid AWS experience (Lambda, API Gateway, S3/CloudFront, RDS)
• Comfortable acting as a peer reviewer, giving and receiving direct technical feedback
• Experience with testing frameworks such as Playwright, Jasmine, Cucumber
• Agile Development experience, specifically Scrum
• Understanding of state management and component composition patterns
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps best practice
You will need 3–6+ years’ professional development experience. You’ll bring genuine curiosity about customer needs and strong empathy for the people who rely on our products, confidence communicating clearly across a diverse team, and comfort working in a fast-paced, changing environment.